| Classmates We Miss |
| Our FABULOUS CLASS has purchased Belton Educational Enrichment Foundation bricks for each of the classmates who made it through 1958 with us. Our total Brick Campaign netted $1,000 in 2008. There's always room for your memory or tribute. Click on fridalives@msn.com |
| Dalene Binkley |
| Rebecca Brown 2/4/42 - 1/20/03 |
| Ray Bell 10/11/41 - 8/77 |
| The last day before Thanksgiving holiday when we were in 8th-grade history class, Ray and I were caught talking. Mrs. West sentenced us to reciting "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" on the day we returned from vacation. We spent our vacations practicing, "'Twas the 18th of April in '75...," and he didn't hold it against me. Ray was one of the nicest kids in our class. ---Jan When I was a senior at Baylor, I was driving a 10-year-old rattletrap so that I could do my student teaching. One day it wouldn't start, and I called Ray, who was a mechanic in Waco at that time. He came out to campus and got my car started. He wouldn't take any money for the chore. He really was the nicest of friends ---Cecelia Dicksy and I visited Ray Bell shortly before his death...came bearing gift...a six pack of Bud...and bless his heart...drank with us...what courage and hospitality he showed. Was heart-breaking! ---Ann L See memories of Ray by Mary Ann and Bill D. on next page. |
| Eva Ann Jaye 1/5/42 - 3/20/04 |
| Deanna McPherson 12/23/41 - 3/85 |
| Nick Moore 10/19/39 - 9/21/90 |
| R.H. Owens 3/13/41 - 6/2/05 See next page. |
| Kenneth Parker 9/10/42 - 1/1/93 |
| Melba Tolkmitt 3/20/42 - 3/26/04 |
| Angharad Musterman (moved away after sophomore year) was so full of life and color and fun. It's hard to believe that she's gone. A fun memory: Angharad had been absent from school. I drove by her home and there she was, out on the front sidewalk, riding her little sister's tryicycle, her long legs sticking up like a grasshopper's. Her mother had told her she had to, to get some exercise. ---Jan Angharad's mother had a dance studio in her home (ballet, etc. for little girls) She hired me a couple of times to play the piano while they danced...can you imagine! I still remember when she handed me $3, I was in disbelief that I had actually earned my own money...guess it was my first job! Even though I didn't get to know Angharad very well, I always liked her and thought she had the most remarkable hair I had ever seen!! ---Janean |
| Terry Washburn 12/3/41 - 5/68 |
| Donna Devine 12/19/42 - 10/11/92 (left school after junior year) |
| A. Anthony (Anton) Moy 1942 - 10/15/96 |
| I remember Anton as an excellent student, an outstanding athlete (track: 4.5 in the mile race at the state meet; and a real tiger in football), junior-year president of the FFA (seniors were usually elected), and a real gentleman. My husband remembers him as very welcoming at the 1985 reunion picnic. ---Jan What I remember most about Anton (and the other guys will remember, too) is how he could run. When we would have to do laps in football practice, everyone's tongues would be hanging out except Anton. He was just laughing, could lap all others, and was absolutely tireless!! ---Will |
| Nick and I became friends during our junior year in high school, as we had several classes together. Oh, of course I knew him since 1950 in Tyler Elementary, but he was just a "boy". I was dating someone else, so we actually became friends. During senior year I began to date him just to have someone to be with while my boyfriend was away at college. Nick was always a lot of fun, of course Mother didn't know I was going out with him for a couple of months. I was just being a "bad girl" by having someone else pick me up and then I would meet up with Nick. Anyway to shorten all of the beginning, we ended up married on August 19, 1960. One of the really fun things that happened while we were secretly dating ... we drove up to the canteen and were sitting in the car and happened to look up and saw Bill Johnson sitting on the roof of the canteen. He never was able to explain why he was up there and for what reason. I just know that all of you had a lot of fun at the graduation party, but Nick and I never made it! Nick was a fun loving special person to those of you who never really got to know him. He was an avid golfer with a scratch handicap, a hunter (deer lease tales...whew), a fisherman, a football and basketball official for 16 years. Oh of course he watched all sports on TV. At the time of his death Nick was a salesman for Cen-Tex Ready Mix (it's now called Tarmax). On our 30th anniversary in 1990 we went for our 3rd time to Jamaica to Sandals resort and celebrated for 8 days and nights. We had a fabulous time and within the next month after we returned home he died at home. It was extremely traumatic, I really wanted to go with him. ---Marie |
| Maureen Morgan Moon, Class of '58, Gene's sister, died of breast cancer on June 3, 2007. Charlene Wininger Hannon, Class of '58, died June 1, 2007. Linda Wilhite Fowler, Class of '59, Stanley's wife, passed away on April 23, '07. |
| Rebecca and I were on the volleyball team together. I recall one day in particular we rode the bus to some game, and I sat in the seat with her. I wasn't feeling so great that day, and wasn't hungry when it came lunch time. She didn't have much to eat, so I gave her my lunch (no great sacrifice on my part). After that day, we seemed to "click" and enjoyed being teammates together. ---Janean |
| I don’t remember exactly how Ken and I became friends. I do distinctly remember we suffered (and I do mean SUFFERED) through plane geometry class together, so perhaps that was our common thread. He had a wacky sense of humor and he and I had great fun working on the staged spoof of several of the BHS teachers. (Ken’s contribution was about our librarian. Does anyone else remember her telling folks in study hall, “Shut your mouths. This is a library.”?) I don’t remember what year the spoof was done, but it was probably when we were seniors. I do remember that at one time I was irritated with him about something and apparently he took it pretty seriously as he sent me a bunch of pink carnations. That was the first bunch of flowers I had ever received, so of course it stands out in my memory. I also remember that Jean Caraway, who taught biology, loaned him her new Chevrolet so that he could take me to the senior banquet. Can you imagine any teacher these days doing such a thing? I was truly sorry to hear of his difficulties later on and of his death. I wish I had been able to keep in touch with him – maybe he would have been glad of a friend from the old days. ---Linda M. Ken died in Abiquiu, Rio Arriba, NM. His brother Mike still lives in Belton. ---Judy PS. I think Ken was buried in Belton, but they also had a pretty big turn-out for a memorial in California. He lived there in Menlo Park for a time and was a professor of anthropology and sociology at one of the universities. He had earned his doctorate. Apparently had a lot of friends. We were living in California from about 1975 till 1980 and I called and talked to him briefly around 1977. He had moved to California a while before we did. ---Linda W. |
| Deanna and I attended school together all 12 years, beginning in the first grade at old Tarver School on Main Street. I remember that she and I both got sound spankings from Mrs. Peterson that year! Nothing unusual, Mrs. Peterson was always giving someone a spanking. Deanna was painfully shy in elementary school. She was always a good student and she became a very caring and considerate person as an adult. I have thought of her many times through the years and still have fond memories of her. ---Linda W. Deanna died awfully young. The main thing I remember is how much she enjoyed band and playing her alto saxophone. I'll send more later. ---Linda M. |
| Dalene Binkley was my partner in chemistry lab. We had an agreement that she would always light the Bunsen burner because I was afraid to! And she faithfully did! Once the burner was going, we did the rest of the experiment together and then the rest of the agreement was that I would write it up - which I did! It was a partnership that worked well! ---Nancy D. |
| Donna was a special fun part of mine and Nick's marriage. Remember the song Donna by Richie Valens? Well, anyway, whenever we heard it Nick blushed and I teased him relentlessly about having a crush on her. So I just thought it fitting that I should purchase a rememberance for her (a BEEF brick). ---Marie |
| I worked with Terry for a while at the courthouse right before she got so sick. She was always such a sweet, quiet girl. It was so sad that she died so young. ---Charlotte |
| Gary gave a brick for Ray. |
| Gary gave a brick for Dalene. |
| Marie gave a brick for Donna. |
| Janean & Will gave a brick for Deanna. |
| George gave a brick for Angharad. |
| Dicksy gave a brick for Eva. |
| Lila gave a brick for Rebecca. |
| Dick gave a brick for Anton. |
| Marie gave a brick for Nick. |
| Judy Ps gave a brick for R.H. |
| Linda M. gave a brick for Ken. |
| George gave a brick for Melba. |
| Charlotte gave a brick for Terry. |
| Terry was one of the two people to whom I was closest in Junior and Senior High School. Because of her shyness, not a lot of our fellow students knew her well. She was a shy person, but with a loving, giving heart and spirit. She was always willing to help anyone, and would patiently listen to a friend's dreams, problems, etc. She a good listener, and was not the least bit judgemental. We kept in touch after graduation. After her divorce from her first husband, we kept in closer touch. When she met her second husband Jim, her life really began for her. She realized two of her greatest desires in life. Jim was a professional horse trainer and a really good guy. They eventually moved to their own facility in Muleshoe, TX. That was dream number one, a good husband and being active in a business she loved - horses. Then dream number two - a child. She was ecstatic. Terry had battled brain cancer for some time, but when she became ill for the last time, her concern was still for the ones she would leave behind, not for herself. She showed more courage than one can imagine. When I think of Terry now, I always think of her favorite flower - pink roses, and envision her as a lovely pink rose decorating the throne of God. I will remember her always, and sorely miss her. She is always with me in my heart. --Harrell |
| Bobby Alexander, Class of '58, died Jan. 29, 2009. |