Wednesday, April 1, 2009

1943 Bearcats Football Team

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Pictured are the '43 'Cats with Coach Vandiver.

Front L-R: M. Williams, Billy Bludworth, T. Mauldin, C. Cox, J. Chisholm, K. Castleberry, B. McGee, J. Barber.

Back row L-R: R. Waters, D. Waters, D. Magers, T. Gower, Coach Vandiver, E. Conlee, T. Lindley, Jimmy Cunningham, D. Patch, and Tommy Ford, manager.

First names are only indicated by an initial, need some help with those, please. Thought of a couple, but not all.
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Clipping sent by Betty Massengill and Cynthia Mink.

11 comments:

  1. Malvern Williams, Billy Bludworth, Tom Mauldin, ?, Jack Chisholm, ?, Bill McGee?, ?

    ?, Dub Waters, Dexter Magers, E.G. Conlee, Taylor Lindley, Dan Patch

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  2. Kelly Castleberry

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  3. T. Charles Gower.

    Malvern Williams and E.G. Conlee are both deceased.

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  4. Great photo! The only two I readily recognize are T. Charles and Jimmy Cunningham. Also, great photo of a very young and dapper Doc Vandiver.

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  5. I remember Billy Wayne Castleberry but not Kelly. Were they related?

    Did Conlee operate the store on highway 45 south?

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  6. castleberry's were my 1st cousins, the children were: paul,hubert,hollis,kelly,billy wayne and twin sister betty jane

    betty massengill

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  7. I don't think I ever knew E.G. Conlee. But, I did know the owner and operator of the grocery and service station on old Hwy 45. That was Johnny & Tranny Conlee. Their son Jerry and I were good friends growing up and he and his wife Linda, who currently serves as city clerk, still live in Baldwyn.

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  8. It was Johnny's store. E.G. was his brother. He was married to my aunt.

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  9. Can ya'll remember the monkey in a cage at Conlee's store? He was brought to Baldwyn by, I believe, Leland Thomas after some of the auto dealers who went to Chicago bailed him out of jail for being drunk. Or, so we were told.

    He had an attitude!

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