Sunday, June 29, 2008
Lavinia Jenkins phoned to consult the bird expert at our house and together she and Jack decided it was a sighting of 5 swallowtailed kites soaring over Taylorville on Sunday afternoon. Pleasure shared is a good thing.
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Daisy Anthony loves people, especially Wellborn Hometowners. She is good at finding ways to help others and she probably would have helped someone in this story if only they had asked.
Daisy's yard work is beyond her physical capability these days so she contracts for it and the arrangement includes using Daisy's own mower.
With the recent rains grass is growing well, but when the yard man came to cut the grass, Daisy's mower was not in its usual storage place, or anywhere else either.
"Two golf cart batteries went missing lately" Daisy said "but they were worn out ones".
Daisy wants people along the railroad to know, daring to hope maybe her mower was borrowed and a return intended.
If it is summertime kid mischief, neighbors need to work together and nip it in the bud.
Daisy says "I hate liars and thieves. This is a time for tough love."
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 1:45 PM
Friday, June 27, 2008
Arthur Roberts gave a friendly wave, sometimes from his front porch and sometimes as he was walking along CR 137. We missed that when his failing health precluded his hometown friendliness. He and his wife Jeanette lived in one of Wellborn's old homes on CR137. Their son Dennis and his wife Mickey moved a nice doublewide so as to be next door. Arthur departed this life at age 83. He was a Primitive Baptist and his earthly temple was laid to rest June 16, 2008 at Crawford Lake Cemetery in McAlpin with Elders Wyndel Horton and Herman Griffin officiating His bereaved loved ones are his wife Jeanette, a daughter, Alicia Hillhouse and (Tony) of Live Oak, Dennis(Mickey) ,Wellborn, Daryl (Melanie),Live Oak, and Larry Jones (Beverly) of Columbus, Georgia; eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren . His life spanned Nov 13, 1924 to June 14, 2008. May our God comfort those who mourn.
Gary Dewayne Connell, (October 15, 1951 - June 18, 2008) lived all the 56 years God granted him right here in our hometown. He was the son of the late James Gus and Emma Louise Law Connell. His brother Lamont Connell also preceded him in death.
Survivng family are his wife Anita Connell, Wellborn, a daughter Andrea (Chad)Cheshire, Live Oak, two sons Michael of Wellborn and Johnie (Diocelin) Nicholson, Chicago, three sisters, Mary Touchton, Marilyn (Larry) Norris and Barbara Butler, Wellborn, and two brothers, Laverne (Marilyn) Connell and Donald (Alice)Connell, both of Wellborn and one grandchild, Valerie Nicholson; and many nieces and nephews. The family and friends, sorrowing, gathered to comfort one another on June 25, 2008. He loved life; he cooked, fished, enjoyed TV football and played Skip-Bo. He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church.
Maggie Dell McKeithen Bartley (March 2, 1924 - June 18, 2008) was the youngest of ten children reared in our hometown by Ella and D. Van McKeithen. The McKeithen famiy history dovetails with Wellborn's prime years. Van owned and operated naval stores businesses including pine forests management, saw mills, and turpentine production. It was a busy and active family to grow up in. The memories and stories were relived whenever they gathered. Maggie Dell's married years took her away from Wellborn but as it happens with many others, she returned to her roots and enjoyed her final years here. Dell and Bart were active Methodists and, indeed, were responsible for a decorative pass thru shelf in the Methodist parsonage.
Surviving their mother are Richard C. Adams of Carthage NC and James B. Adams of Vass, N.C. and two grandchildren.
Rev David McKeithen conducted graveside services at Wellborn Cemetery on June 21, 2008.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
These are Gaylard kids at the Family Reunion. I bet 30 younguns responded to Emily G Maynard and husband Joe's invitation to come outside for fun after the covered dish dinner this year. Participants took turns but it was still a team effort that finally spilled lots of wrapped candy and then came a kid scramble. Great fun!. Good memories of what being in a big family is all about.
These three sisters were honored, along with their brother Jack Gaylard at the Gaylard Family Reunion on Saturday June 14, 2008. It was at the Masonic Lodge "because", said Jack G. "it is the only place big enough." and then he added "Why dont you come again this year, Jinny."I accepted and my heart was warmed one more time.
Three sisters are Freddie Anna Lou Gaylard Avery, Jessie Mae Gaylard Fischer and Hazel Emily Gaylard Law These 3 plus their brother Jack Lewis
Gaylard are the surviving offspring of the 14 children born to Emily Lewis G and her husband Benjamin Franklin Gaylard. Boys outnumbered the girls 9 top 5 but now Jack and 3 sisters are the surviving siblings. Roger(dcd)(whose wife was Vera Hurt G.dcd.) was the oldest. Jack is the youngest of the children of Ben and Emily G. Mary Gaylard Berry's, Roger and Vera's daughter, says her claim to fame is that she is the oldest of Ben and Emily's grandchildren.
In this photo Mary goes for a refill
of her sweet tea.
My camera could only catch part of
the enormous banquet spread.
Besides the wonderful visiting that happens amongst Gaylards and friends there is The Auction. Everybody brings something, often a handmade item, sometimes a recycled treasure. The monies realized pay rental for the lodge, buy the papergoods for next year and make a family purse available for unforeseen emergencies.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Good news at Wilson's is that Jack has access to his electric golf cart again
Bad news is that the baby wrens hatched out in it beautifully but never fledged on accountuv a snake :-(
and that was a last supper for Mr Rat Snake.
God's food chain is recognizable even when hard to reconcile.
Another hatching eggs story is an indoors one. :-) Jack plays momma hen for one nest of 3 fertilized eggs under a lamp. Jinny plays momma to another 3 eggs in a separate warm nest in a different room. The eggs came as a gift from Ron & Esther Chappel's flock where natural incubation process resulted in 100% success with 11 adorable baby chicks emerging a couple of weeks ago. Three of the gift eggs are in Gainesville under our grandsons broody black hen named Markweeta.
Our estimated baby chix day is June 18. Stay tuned.
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
The COUNTRY STORE was the specialty of this 15th Blueberry Festival celebration. The two guys, Charlie Osgood and Richard Wilder were the main ones who worked the miracle of transformation. They added the porch and turned a disreputable tin storage building into an air conditioned, lovely and useful country store envisioned by Cheryl Osgood and helpers. Inside was where memorabilia from previous festivals was on display along with items for sale like blueberry blue tee shirts with the store front pictured on them, blueberry fudge, blueberry bubble gum, & ice cream with blueberries. Kathie Snowden says this was the first year that the blueberry pies sold out completely before even thinking about lowering the price!Artist, Anthony Yazbec, was discovered in the art department of LCCC, and is on his way to Ringling College of Art & Design studying toward professional illustration. His volunteer hours and talent plus Wellborn Community Association purchase of paint and brushes made a mural of our very own happen in our hometown. The porch with rocking chairs, two wooden indians and a hitching post made a good idea even more colorful.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Suwannee School Band and flag corp added pizazz to BBF parade '08 Becky Gaylord is the driver of this golfcart full of family.
And here are three happy shoppers carrying their live blueberry bushes home for planting ASAP with visions of baked blueberry goodies ahead.
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Irene Jernigan McCall loves Wellborn Best. She shared the fun of Grand Marshalling with her best friend Elizabeth McMullen who also grew up on Wellborn.# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 11:51 AM
Wellborn Baptist Church chose A Conestoga Wagon theme Herb and Betty Zobel assembled their swell Old Tyme Days float from Herb's wonderful collection of memorabilia kept museum style in his barn. A costumed Betty Zobel rocked her way along the parade route reading her Bible and peering out at the crowd thru her old time spectacles.
Parade watchers in the shade along CR137
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7:30 A.M. Jack Allred sets the sail so that all the parade watchers can read WUMC with the cross and the flame (painted by Carmen Hernandez)
Bob Arnold and Jack Wilson secure the transom sign made by Cathy Allred
8:30 A.M. Justin K. and Austin McC with Paula Arnold hop aboard with fishing poles and biblical cloaks to be fishers of men. They offered crocheted bookmarks for Bibles .
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 11:18 AM
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
We picked our bucket of blueberries this morning (8:30 to 10:30) at Scotts U-Pick; a very pleasant leisurely activity with a full bucket weighing about 5 lbs to brag on.
We plan to go again.
We surely agree that berry picking is not a noonday activity but in the cool of the morning and evening it is altogether lovely.
Bonnie said yesterday's pickers did not enjoy the delightful breeze that evaporated our perspiration today making individual, personal air conditioning. :-)
We were one team amongst many. Most of them were lost in the tall bushes .
Ten cars were parked around Scotts Berry House but we encountered only three different groups as our paths crossed at the table which serves as starting place and then a place to weigh your blueberries as you anticipate pies and muffins and healthy toppings for cereal and ice cream.
It was a "Shooduv Brought My Camera" sort of morning.
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