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| Friday evening, July 1, 2005 at the Parma Community Center Down Home Days Celebration. , Archie Cunningham, Darrell Gregory | Friday evening. Roy & Marcella Hon, George & Barbara Ellabrook |
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| Randall Ramsey and Barbara Medlin with her granddaughter at the serving window | Alice Ward, Delano Brown and Gerald Bailey |
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| Friday Evening - Jug Head Love, Barbara Ellabrook | Lance Morgan, Jo Emma Greenwood and Bette Morgan |
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| George “Tee” S. Husted turning out lots of T shirts to fill requests with the “Parma Pirate” on the front and the requested class photo on the back. See his website at www.net-T-shirts.com | Lance Morgan and Jo Emma Greenwood |
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| Sarah (Keith) Jackson, with her husband, reading her thoughts of appreciation to the crowd. | |
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| Bro. Dean Medlin reading the citation pertaining to the plaque he was presenting to Sarah. | Sarah (Keith) Jackson, with her husband, being presented the plaque as “Down Home Days 2005 Hostess” by Bro. Dean Medlin |
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| Sarah (Keith) Johnson displaying the plaque presented to her by Bro. Den Medlin | Smokey (Vernon) Johnson presenting a history of the founding and progress of the Parma VFW from its beginning in 1947 through the 50+ years until its closing in 2004. |
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| Smokey (Vernon) Johnson presented a history of the founding and progress of the Parma VFW from its beginning in 1947 through the 50+ years until its closing in 2004. | Bro. Dean Medlin leading a cheer with Raymond Dickerson for America after the patriotic talk by Smokey Johnson regarding the Parma Veterans of Foreign Wars and all Veterans |
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| Class Photos of ‘43“ and ‘44’ | Chairs are starting to fill up |
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| Registration table really busy with Down Home Days people filling out the forms | Tommy and his crew at the Bar-B-Que pit, cooking and shredding superb Bar-B-Que pork butts |
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| Raymond Dickerson selling Parma caps | Tom & Sue Parkman and Randall Ramsey |
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| Mike Cullem telling about the drawing to be held for prizes by the Parma Fire Department | Rev. John Girdley, 1st Baptist Church, making the announcement regarding the Vacation Bible School bouncing tent. |
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| Bro. Dean Medlin announcing the forming of the serving lines for the picnic | Rhonda Stultz Sharing the poem "The Old Ragged Flag" |
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| Donna Sapp beautifully singing “The Star Spangled Banner” | Tommy Daniels leading the prayer of “Thanks and blessing” for the picnic |
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| Long line waiting to be served and the tables are empty waiting for the people to come, sit down, eat and visit | George “Tee” Husted filling more requests for T shirts at the Saturday afternoon picnic, with the “Parma Pirate” on the front and the requested class photo or other selected insignia on the back. |
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| “The Serving Line” with Billy & Dorothy Overfield and others going through the line | The servers of “The Food Line” It certainly didn’t take long for the whole crowd to make it through with a heaping plate. |
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| Wanda Keith, Rose & Floyd Nichols, Frankie Jewell Hardesty and Audre Pulling | Don & Ginger Ashley and Opal Bondurant |
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| Sarah & Bill Jackson | Tommy Daniel’s crew continues cooking and chopping the Boston Butts |
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| Wendy Wagner keeping the Bar-B-Que rack going | The people are still going through the serving line. There is James Cox |
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| Harold Norman, one of the real ‘Old Timers’. He made the effort to be here. | The Tables are filling up with people but you can still see the line in the background There is Bobby Aycock, Sr. visiting with Michelle & her baby, and her Mother. |
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| More tables are getting filled, there’s Philip and Trent Gregg | Antique cars on display from the Center Line Christian Car Club of Malden, MO |
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| “Sweet Dreams”- a ‘58 Plymouth owned by Paul Lomax in Parma | Two ‘79 Corvettes and a 78 Cadillac owned by the Mayes brothers, and a ‘56 T Bird owned by Calvin Hatfield |
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| 68 Plymouth Barracuda owned by Charles Payne of Parma and a 57 Renault owned by Rodney House of Parma | The Parma Fire Department available for questions and to sell tickets with Chris, Blackburn, Fire Chief and part of his crew, Justin and Gary Kinsey and Mike Cullem. |
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| The Fire Department ticket booth | Rhonda Stultz & Molette Trobst singing for the people’s entertainment |
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| The line is moving fast now with nearly everyone served | The line is nearly all through standing outside |
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| The tables are now nearly filled with people eating the scrumptious picnic meal with lots of visiting and remembering | Tommy Love remembers when he used to “Buzz” the Down Home Days with his aerobatic air plane. |
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| James Stewart enjoys the meal and visiting there with another friend Betty Sapp | Albert Ross, visiting with friends |
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| George “Tee” Husted still hard at it trying to catch up with so many requests for the Parma Down Home Days T shirts with their class photos on the back, and almost out of his stock of blank T shirts | Dorothy (Reeves) Pennington on right and her sister Jackie (Reeves) Bankston |
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| The inflated Bounce House for children to bounce in sponsored by the First Baptist Church to promote their Vacation Bible School | Loraine Gee and Pastor John Girdley with two of the First Baptist Church youth, promoting the Vacation Bible school. |
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| Pastor John Girdley, high in the air, demonstrating the excitement inside the inflated Bounce House for the First Baptist Church Vacation Bible School | Part of the Husted clan - front rowr. lr
- Sky & Trista (both foster),: middle row. Anna, Chris, Janet & Tina
(foster) Back row. Sidney, George “Tee” and Frank. |
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| Husted clan going through the serving line | Husted clan eating and visiting with Jane Harrison |
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| Lynda, Thelma and Frank Husted clowning for the camera | |