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670. Wynette Wright Little - 2010-01-04 21:00:06 |
Happy New Year everyone....hope you all had a great Christmas I haven’t logged on to the Dunson site in a while. I hope people continue to log on and write something.
I remember both Swanson and Brenda Cole. Thanks for the info about their passing. It’s kind of eye-opening when my age start passing. I was thinking about Brenda not too long ago and wondered whatever happened to her. She was in Ms. Speights’ first grade class with me.
Someone remarked about our parents’ working in the mill because there was nothing else available....that’s true but a lot of our parents came in from Heard County and other surrounding counties where they had been poor dirt farmers...they were likely sharecroppers and frankly the mills provided a step up with a stable income. My parents were at Dixie Mill. Not sure exactly when they moved to LaGrange from Heard Co but it was after Theo (born 1935) and before Cathaleen (born 1937). I don’t think Mother went to work there until sometime between Patricia’s birth (1945) and mine (1948). They didn’t want us to work in the mill but I think both brothers did for a short time....on the way to something else. My brother J.Q. went to GA Tech and got a degree in textile engineering. He spent many successful years in textile sales..so there was still the mill connection. My first job was at Industrial Suppliers (O.F.& C.W. Nixon, Eugene Floyd and O.T. Kersey) and that company supplied all the textile mills in LaGrange, the valley and surrounding area....so I got my start with a mill connection as well. I think sister Ann worked in the office at Callaway before heading off to work at Ft. Benning.
I received a clipping from the Lagrange Daily News not too long ago (Oct or Nov?) from Mrs. Margaret Stephens. I had talked to her to let her know I was not coming to the reunion and she had told me about the Veterans trip to D.C. She sent me the article about that trip -- with her photo. She turned 90 last year and she had served as a WAC. She and family (Jean and Ann) lived across the street from us on Mountville Street and most of the Dixie folks will remember that she ran the Dixie kindergarten for years. She was like a second mama to me.
Oh, my how I did run on.....so I’ve done my part...some of the rest of you need to chime in.......
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669. Charlie Farrar - 2010-01-02 11:49:02 |
Marion Edward Swanson photo on the home page.
I remember him/them. They lived on Cary and his father worked for Pabst.
He had polio or something because he had to use crutches.
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668. Lynn Bunn Rooks - 2010-01-02 10:27:00 |
| Don’t know if any of you remember Brenda Cole that lived on Greenville across from Woods grocery.She passed away I think Dec21.She lived next to Marie Estes.She was in a nursing home and was in pretty bad shape.Her mother was Dot Cole. |
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667. Lynn Bunn Rooks - 2010-01-02 10:20:01 |
| Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Year!!I am back working again at Callaway Gardens.I love this job.I remember when I was 16 and went up to dunson mill to apply for a job.Mr Elmer Streeter told me you come back when you get 18 and I will give you a job and so I turned 18 in October and again went to the mill and did get a job filling batteries.I also remember I didn’t have the kind of clothes to work there so I applied for a Mansours charge card and bought 2 pair of jeans to go to work in.I paid this off with my first check. This was the start of my working career. |
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666. - 2010-01-02 08:50:20 |
Hi Jake,
I think our parents put up with the mill work because there was nothing else in LaGrange to do. Like you I did my stint in the cloth room until I wised us and enlisted in the Air Force. But back to our parents, I know they must have loved us very much to put up with that kind of work. Hope to see ya at the next re-union.
Gene P |
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665. Jake Thrower - 2010-01-02 00:16:43 |
| Charlie, do you suppose a computer virus could have hit many of the LaGrange systems after the last reunion??Do we need to call the nerd squad?? Seriously Charlie, you’re really trying hard and doing a great job. Hope others will come back because we need this site to jump start our ageing memories. |
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664. Jake Thrower - 2010-01-02 00:03:35 |
| Don’t know if the machinery has been removed or not but I do know that some of the frames in the "twister room" wore me to a frazzle ’til I wised up and enlisted. My back still hurts. It was a good place to grow up but a heckava way to make a livin’. How in the world did our Moms and Dads stand it??? |
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663. Charlie Farrar - 2010-01-01 11:05:37 |
So somebody living there tell me please.
Is Dunson Mill operating these days? Is the machinery still inside.
How about Dixie mill, is it operational and same about the machinery.
thanks
Charlie
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662. Joe Thrower - 2009-12-31 17:11:38 |
To all; Happy new year ! May good things come your way.
Joe Thrower |
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661. - 2009-12-30 12:25:50 |
Hope everyone has a very happy and Christ filled new year.
Gene and Annette Phillips |
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