Paxton High School Graduating Class Rosters

1939-1951

1939 Paxton HS Class

Homer Jones, Principal

Grady Stringfellow

Coy Bell

Z. S. Adams

Frank Prestwood

Willard McCullough

Nell Grimes

Helen Grant

Wilson Summerlin

Hobson Savage

Bonnie Nall

Elizabeth Webster

Dan Vaughan

Johnny Tucker

Marie Nobles

Lansing Gordon

John Stafford

1940

Second Graduating Class of Paxton

Principal, E. J. Laney

Sponsor, Mr. Oscar Harrison

Katrine Nance

Lance Price

Hurtis Carter

Bill Preswood

Cleo Beasley

James Murphy

Kate Brunson

Francis Savage

Mabrie Pool

Rondol Surrency

Melba Collinsworth

Altha Lee Beard

Lorraine Nance

Marie Braswell

Junita Morrell

Edna Harrison

Katrine Brunson

Lois Booth

Francis Savage

1941 Class

Inez Rabon

Ivanna Kennington

Louise Allen

Eunice Kirkland, Salutatorian

Laura Jo Bell

Nellie Lou Story, Valedictorian

Louise Rabon, President

Leta Gordon

Idell Parker

Cecil Geoghagan

Teachers:

Mrs. McIntosh

Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Ward

Miss Lancaster

Miss Gillis

Miss Henderson

Mr. Laney, Principal

Mrs. Wise

Mrs. Mathews

Mrs. Mathis

Mr. Wilkerson

Mr. Morris

1942 Class

Tula? Agerton

Juanita Dixon

Lois Booth

Frances Seymour

Mildred Brunson

Ioda Jowers

Edward Slaughter

Edith Carter

Lucille Savage

Donald Tucker

Velma Mathis, sponsor

Joy Lindsey

James Summerlin

Eva Slaughter

Hope Vaughan

1943 Class

Hilda Ward

Flora Morrell

Ellen Miller

Lorena Mitchel

Mrs. Hazel Allen

Ruby Jackson

Louana Weeks

Edna Kennington

Katherine Geohogan (Geohagan?)

Clifford Ballard

Oma Lee Carter

Dorman Hightower

Bertha Russell

Winford Adams

Marie Heath

1944 unavailable

1945 Class

Gladys Thorn

Louise Morrell

Miriam Slaughter

Ethel Henderson

Thelma Thorn

Wynell Parker

Margaret Paul

Ruby Collinsworth

Voncille Fountain

Mr. C. C. Parrish

Voncille Ballard

Mary Busbee

Jane? Vaughan (male)

Carnie Nobles

Grady Tucker

Charles Smith

Cannie? Tucker (male)

Cleveland Russell

1946 class

Johnie Rae Nance

Lenore Miller

Eliza McReynolds

Johnie Smith

Several unreadable

1947-1948 unavailable

1949

Charles Adams

Darwin Adams

Bobby Ward

Billy Bryant

Chester Russell

Arvie Lee Wang

Melinda Geoghagan

Doris Cameron

Ethel Wells

Betty Helms

Thelma Carroll

Raymond Williams

Daniel King

Hobbie Hargrove

Lloyd Harris

Charles Allen

1950 Unavailable

1951

Ruby King Morgan

Doris Simmons Kemp

Mack Smith

Bobby Joe Gordon

Vassie Schofield

Mary Cameron

James Patterson

Johan Whittington

Betty Jean Bass

Gene Bryant

Margaret Dean

Hansel Geoghagan

Ann Edwards

Erline Harrison

J. W. Hayes

Myrtle Nobles

Jean Nance

Barbara Rabon

Jean Slaughter

Sam Thorn, Jr.

Merle Wilson

Patsy Tucker

Blondell Thorn

William Jr. Yates

Coston Brunson

Betty Jo Adams

Dewey Jeffcoat

1952

Verra Belle Allen

Donnell Adams

LaFay Brogden

Edith Cameron, Salutatorian

Donell Ficklin

Joan Vickery, Valedictorian

Catherine Campbell

Jackie Gordon

Hileary Geoghagan

Warrie Cotton

Ouida Cotton

Joel Gomillion

Hansel Jones

Betty Jo Holloway

Marie Flemings

Billy Ray White

James King

Althea Hodge

Blondell Jones

Johnny Mason

Lawrence Parrish

Catherine McClellan

Nell Wells

Billy Peoples

Joan Miller

James Scoggins

Jean Thorn

Twinette Thorn

Frances Perkins

Alto Straughn

Glen Love

Maxwell Alford

Sarah Ann McReynolds

John R. Cawthon, Principal

Mrs. Otis Mathis, Sponsor

1953

Betty Joyce Boswell

Jerome W. Burkett

Julia Sue Smith

Sarah Nell Dean

Heulon Holley

Dorothy Nell Johnson

Betty Ruth Smith

Billy R. Campbell

Martha Faye Watson

Bert Brown

Marjorie Helms

Dewey Cleo Collinsworth

Carolyn Campbell

James Geoghagan

Lois Brown

Madeline Yates

Joel Spencer

Bonnie Sue Prescott

James Richardson

Helen Pauline Jones

Dewey Wallace

Frank Collinsworth

Margaret Simpler

1954

Ray Richardson

Myrna McBroom

Margaret Raybon

Avis Aplin

Odus White

Lodie Kimbril

Jean Cawthon

Junior King

W. C. Bartlett

Ludie Bryant

Marie Jones

T. J. Grimes

Venitta Earley

Leroy Geoghagan

Mildred Daughtry

Patricia Nobles

Jack Hunt

Pollie Bolden

Randall Holley

1955

William Aplin

Vera Geoghagan

Martha McCollough

Bobby Thomas

Nolan Adams

Gloria Grimes

Herlon Holley

Gerald Avant

Robert Ward

Jerry Nobles

Melba Harrison

Jackie Staggers

Phillip Kelley

William Daughtry

Julia Gardner

Pat Daughtry

Billy Ray Brogden

1956

Charles Cameron

Geraldine Brackins, Salutatorian

Glenda Geoghagan

Imogene Flemings

J. I. King

Tommy Mathis

Betty Jean Harrison

Jo Ann Harrison

Janice Holley

Bobby Joe Senn

Robert Shelton

Ethel Hoover

Erin Hunt

Martha Johnston

Dorris Watson

Sue Perkins

Evelyn King

Marion Jo Weeks

Sylvia Williams, Valedictorian

John Morgan Whittington

About 275 names

Transcribed from class photographs displayed on the walls of the school and from yearbooks.

Bob Bryan

3 July 2006