The '59 'Cats. They were coached, as best I can determine, by Coach Harris??
David Palmer and Joe Cunningham were the quarterbacks.
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(Did check everyone's hands and fingers on this before posting!)
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Jerry Rowan, Buddy DeVaughn, Danny Searcy, Joe Grissom and Tully Lindley all deceased I believe. Anyone know what happened to Larry Carpenter and Robert Jobe?
The photo is from the 59 yearbook. The players shown are perhaps from all of the 4 HS grades. Looking through the individual player and grade photo list, I can't match #76 with a photo.
Number 66 is John Howard and he is also deceased. I don't think I ever knew Buford Patterson. Larry Carpenter was an extremely fast running back. He could do the 100 in nothing flat and never take two steps in the same direction!
hey milton copeland--someone on here said that john howard was deceased--dont think so--what about you?? martin (his brother) is deceased-wayne - plus - your right about buford patterson
Wayne, I find no record of John dying. Haven't been able to locate his current address, but SS has no record of his death (unless it occurred in the last few months)
Don McKibben reports that he has bumped into John Howard several times in the Jackson area and that he was alive at least as recently as his mother Helen's death a few months ago. Mrs. Howard had remarried several years ago.
Coach: Jack Harris, Assistant coach: Tom Pierce First row: 35 Larry carpenter, 33 Paul Hanes, 65 Bobby Burns, 12 David Palmer, 11 Buddy Devaughn, 32 Robert coggins, 66 John Howard, 84 Danny Searcy. Second Row: 77 Joe Grissom, 31 Douglas Pruitt, 42 Charles Weatherford, 88 Harold Dean Grissom, 50 Tully Lindley, 54 Harold McMillan, 55 Teddy Love, 53 Paul williams, 77 Billy Ray Dobbs Third Row: 30 Jackie Cole, 86 Mancil Pruitt, 87 Jerry Rowan, 10 Joe Cunningham, 88 Johnny Miller, 64 Gary Norman, 67 Robert Jobe, 76 Bufford Patterson
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Jerry Rowan, Buddy DeVaughn, Danny Searcy, Joe Grissom and Tully Lindley all deceased I believe. Anyone know what happened to Larry Carpenter and Robert Jobe?
I recognize everyone except number 76 on the back row. Somebody put a name with him!
Could it be Milton Wesson?
Number 76 is Buford Patterson I believe.
Robert Jobe lives in Florida
Could "76" be J. B. Williams?
DC
76 - Ray Whitehead? Jimmy Crowe? Who is 53?
53 is paul williams also deceased
The photo is from the 59 yearbook. The players shown are perhaps from all of the 4 HS grades.
Looking through the individual player and grade photo list, I can't match #76 with a photo.
Carl, # 76, Buford Patterson, was in the eighth grade in 1959 along with Paul Williams.
He was a pretty big fellow.
I believe you have nailed him, Milton. I concur. Thanks!
Number 66 is John Howard and he is also deceased. I don't think I ever knew Buford Patterson. Larry Carpenter was an extremely fast running back. He could do the 100 in nothing flat and never take two steps in the same direction!
Phil C
The bad news is this wasn't a very good team. The good news is when Jackie C. and Red Shelton got a bit more mature, they had some great teams.
Was anyone ever tried for danny searcy's death
I don't even remember anyone ever being charged for Danny's or his wife Sandy's death.
They had just set up their house trailer for the Fall term at Ole Miss after spending the Summer parked behind the Chickasaw Lodge south of Tupelo.
He came in to my book store two days before his death and stocked up on reading material and was looking forward to the new semester.
I had always heard that it was officially ruled a murder suicide but didn't believe it like a lot of other folks.
What number is Danny Searcy?
# 84 is Danny
Danny Searcy is No. 84, kneeling, front row.
hey milton copeland--someone on here said that john howard was deceased--dont think so--what about you?? martin (his brother) is deceased-wayne - plus - your right about buford patterson
Wayne, I find no record of John dying. Haven't been able to locate his current address, but SS has no record of his death (unless it occurred in the last few months)
I don't remember who it was that told me, but someone said the John Howard died not long after the big reunion we had in '95.
Phil C
Thanks Phil, I'll do some more checking through the Social Security records using that time frame. Wish I knew where he lived at the time.
I know John lived in Vicksburg for some time because he had a Bonanza Steak House or some such franchise.
Don McKibben reports that he has bumped into John Howard several times in the Jackson area and that he was alive at least as recently as his mother Helen's death a few months ago.
Mrs. Howard had remarried several years ago.
Coach: Jack Harris, Assistant coach: Tom Pierce First row: 35 Larry carpenter, 33 Paul Hanes, 65 Bobby Burns, 12 David Palmer, 11 Buddy Devaughn, 32 Robert coggins, 66 John Howard, 84 Danny Searcy. Second Row: 77 Joe Grissom, 31 Douglas Pruitt, 42 Charles Weatherford, 88 Harold Dean Grissom, 50 Tully Lindley, 54 Harold McMillan, 55 Teddy Love, 53 Paul williams, 77 Billy Ray Dobbs Third Row: 30 Jackie Cole, 86 Mancil Pruitt, 87 Jerry Rowan, 10 Joe Cunningham, 88 Johnny Miller, 64 Gary Norman, 67 Robert Jobe, 76 Bufford Patterson
What 4 guys on the 1959 football team went on to serve in the Viet Nam War? ANSWER: Paul Haynes, J C Chism, Jerry Prather, and Harold McMillan
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