Down Home Days 2005


To the members of the Down Home Days Committee - 
Thank you so much for choosing Bill and me as your Host & Hostess for this year's celebration.  What a pleasure it was for us - As you know, Parma is very special to us.  As long as our health permits - we will be first in line to register.  I want to personally thank George Husted for the pictures he sent to us.  What a great job he did.
 
Bill & Sarah (Keith) Jackson


Pictures will be posted as they become available.  If you have a few pictures you want posted, you can e-mail them and a brief description to webmaster@parma-mo.com


Missed the T-shirt - You can still buy one on-line

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$10.00, $5.00 for graphic on back

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This Year's T-shirt
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Scenes From this year's Down Home Days

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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
Randall Ramsey and Barbara Medlin with her granddaughter at the serving window Alice Ward, Delano Brown and Gerald Bailey
Friday Evening - Jug Head Love, Barbara Ellabrook Lance Morgan, Jo Emma Greenwood and Bette Morgan
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
Sarah (Keith) Jackson, with her husband, reading her thoughts of appreciation to the crowd.
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
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.
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
Class Photos of ‘43“ and ‘44’ Chairs are starting to fill up
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
Raymond Dickerson selling Parma caps Tom & Sue Parkman and Randall Ramsey
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.
Bro. Dean Medlin announcing the forming of the serving lines for the picnic Rhonda Stultz Sharing the poem "The Old Ragged Flag"
Donna Sapp beautifully singing “The Star Spangled Banner” Tommy Daniels leading the prayer of “Thanks and blessing” for the picnic
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.
“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.
Wanda Keith, Rose & Floyd Nichols, Frankie Jewell Hardesty and Audre Pulling Don & Ginger Ashley and Opal Bondurant
Sarah & Bill Jackson Tommy Daniel’s crew continues cooking and chopping the Boston Butts
Wendy Wagner keeping the Bar-B-Que rack going The people are still going through the serving line. There is James Cox
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.
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
“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
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.
The Fire Department ticket booth Rhonda Stultz & Molette Trobst singing for the people’s entertainment
The line is moving fast now with nearly everyone served The line is nearly all through standing outside
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.
James Stewart enjoys the meal and visiting there with another friend Betty Sapp Albert Ross, visiting with friends
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
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.
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.
Husted clan going through the serving line Husted clan eating and visiting with Jane Harrison
 
Lynda, Thelma and Frank Husted clowning for the camera  

More Pictures to come!