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232 E Richland Ave
Waverly, Tennessee 37185-1233
Salter's Chapel AME Church congregations and several friends of Waverly attended the Funeral for George Nelson, who passed last week in Dickson. He was born and educated in Dickson; he received a B.S. degree for TSU in Nashville and graduate studies at Cornell University. He served in the Pacific and Japan during WWII and discharged as Staff Sergeant. He retired in 1986 after twenty-two years with the US Government as an accountant with the Federal Housing Authority and as an administrator with the Food and Drug Administration and traveled extensively nationally and internationally. He was a member of the Phi Bea Sigma Fraternity and a substitute teacher with the Prince George’s County Maryland Schools. He leaves to mourn two brothers William Stacy and Mac Nelson of Dickson and two sisters, Martha Hall and Maggie Cole. The family received friends at St. James A.M.E church following the funeral service.
Those attending from Waverly ate at the Ponderosa Restaurant including Yvonne and Grant Gardner, Virginia Walker, Rosia Lee Gardner, Victor Gardner, Winona Shields, Brantley Reid, Anna Mays, Marty Coe, Keriyon Wells, St. John Mays, and Bobbies Shields.
If you know someone that is in need of the Second Harvest Food Bank, please contact or call Karen Story at 209-0340.
Michaelee Bowes of the Tennessee Valley Road Runners writes, “Hello everyone, welcome to the Weekly Running Update. I always start these updates by thanking everyone for coming out to run with us, and this one will be no different. Although I would like to give special thanks to our new runners, over the last two weeks we have had two new runners. So thanks guys, keep it up and it is great having you run with us. Everyone training for the half marathon in Nashville, it is time to step it up and really kick your training into gear. We are only 7 weeks away now, so time is running out. From now until then, all Saturday runs will have distances of at least 10 miles to run, thus allowing a great opportunity to get in your long run.
For this week’s Weekly Running Tip we are continuing with our Country Music Marathon theme by talking about race weekend preparation. If this is your first, time to compete in this event, all the preparation can be a little daunting. The best solution for this is finding someone who has done it before. They will be able to give you a heads up on everything from where to go at the expo, to race morning prep, to parking and shuttle arrangements, and so on. Again, get hooked up with a friend with experience or a local running group, and it is sure to make your weekend in Nashville all the more enjoyable. Finally, Saturday we will be running at Blue Creek 2 at 9am. It could be a damp week but thank goodness, it is going to be warm! That is all for this week, see you on the road.”
Mary Turner of Nashville was home visiting her mother Virginia and Charles Walker; they attended church Sunday morning before heading home to Nashville.
Penny Collier of Indianapolis, IN was home last weekend visiting her aunts Gloria Carter and Virginia and Charles Walker. She stopped in Nashville and picked-up her sister in-law Jeannine Matthews went to Dickson to visit family before heading to Waverly.
Shirley Wylie celebrated a birthday over the weekend, congratulations Shirley. She and her sister Brenda Wilson of Nashville were in Waverly last weekend visiting their mother Lois Kelly, Camille and Robert Turner. Patrick Turner is deploying to Iraq again and his father Robert Turner is driving him to Ft. Benning, GA. Our prayers are with him and the troops serving in our military armed forces.
Joe Thompson of Rockford, IL was home last weekend visiting his mother Lillian Thompson and father in-law Jim Phillips, residents at HCNH. I ran in to Joe at his daughter Kelly Cook’s business New Image on Main Street.
Lloyd and Angela Turner of Loganville, GA were in Waverly last weekend visiting his Aunt Lillian Thompson and other family members. I am sorry I missed him, I used to baby sit him and his sisters while I was stationed in Ft. Hood, TX, where he was born. His late father Lloyd and Marathas Turner were living in Kaleen, TX during the 1967’s. During the 1968’s Lloyd served in Germany where my sister Jessie, her late husband Floyd Marable, my brother Willis Turner and I were stationed. We got together on the weekends often. Glenda Phillips of Camden was traveling with the Turners, showing them around town.
Promising high school seniors, who plan to attend TSU Fall 2010- The HBCU-UP Project and Faculty of TSU, is currently recruiting promising high school seniors, who plan to attend TSU in the Fall following Spring 2010 graduation, and who have an interest in pursuing a college degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) discipline, to participate in the Program and the STEM Rising Freshman Summer Institute, June 7 thru July 9, 2010. Twenty four students selected to participate will receive the following support: (1) free room and board during the five-week summer academic enrichment program, (2) a modest stipend, (3) a peer mentor/tutor to work with them during the summer and throughout the freshman academic year; and (4) a financial award based on academic performance during the freshman academic year.
Application deadline: March 19, 2010. For further information, please visit the HBCU-UP website at www.tnstate.edu/hbcu_up Dee Green, Project Coordinator at 615-277-1663 or dgreen10@tnstate.edu
The Hope Center members were in fellowship with Salter's Chapel AME Church Sunday morning, making a large first Sunday service. The youth has been meeting on Monday at Salter's Chapel AME Church, practicing speeches, and music to get ready for Easter. Chris Pearson is the YPD director and assistant is Nedra Marable, Anna Mays, Winona Shields, Victor Gardner, and Brantley Reid.
Saturday morning Kitty Mays, Dorothy Wilkins, Anna Mays, and Keriyon Wells spend a day shopping and later went out to eat. That evening they celebrated a birthday party for Avery Markus, son of Missy Markus and Henry Mays; Dorothy and Jesse Thompson at their home on Lomax Avenue hosted it, with family and friends celebrating his first birthday with a cookout.
Happy birthday wishes this week to Carlos Smith of Memphis, William Johnson of Florida, Sarah Luten, Gilbert Conyers, Percy J. Coleman, Sr., Sherri Patterson, Lance Booze, Jessie Louise Ralston of Waverly Health Care Center, Ellis Frederick of New Johnsonville.
Elaine Turner of Dickson attended a dinner in Clarksville to celebrate a birthday for her friend Kay Gilbert of Dickson. Elaine, Kay, and I attended TSU during the mid 1965’s and have remained friends during the years. Congratulations Kay.
Celebrating a wedding anniversary this Tuesday are Hollis and Georgia Langston of Russellville, TN, congratulations.
My very dear cousin Lucille Collier-Johnson of Clarksville is celebrating her 90th birthday this Saturday March 13. And her son John Johnson and family are treating her to dinner at the Looking Glass Restaurant in Clarksville. Her children from Michigan, sisters, brothers and family from around the states are due in town for the occasion. Pam and Jack Muir of Louisville, KY are picking up her father Dorsey Collier at Magnolia Place and I hope to get there late. May you have a great birthday, Midge.
In addition, special happy birthday wishes this Monday to my friends, Gordy Rich of Huntingdon, Wednesday Don “Pete” Moffett of Spring City, TN, and Thursday Pam Gunn, and Kenneth Dreaden of Waverly, congratulations, and my wish for many more wonderful years.
Quote: “I want to keep my soul fertile for changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it's time for them to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not read the same page recurrently.”
- Donald Miller, from his book, Through Painted Deserts
Verse: “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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