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A nostalgic look at Atlanta's Kirkwood Community, where the Sarretts lived beginning in 1934.
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1937 Kirkwood School Miss Clarke's First Grade Class.
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1st Row: ?, ?, Evelyn Wallace, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
2nd Row: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett, ?, ?.
3rd Row: Rainey, ?, Bobby Jean George, ?, ?, ?, Conrad Davis, ?
4th Row:
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Dot Dyer. Indentifications contributed by Kay Sarrett Borden and Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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Kirkwood School
1st Row: Jimmy Jordan is seventh from the right.
If you can identify the year or anyone in this photo, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Identification contributed by Robert "Bobby" Copeland.
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| Kirkwood School - Jimmy Jordan is identified center stage. If you can identify the year or anyone else in this photo, please contact us. Contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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1937 - 1938 Kirkwood School - Mary Snow's Third Grade Class
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1st Row: Charles Wallace, Harold Chism, Marvin Hardy.
2nd Row: Betty "Sophia" Murphy, Dan Bignarde, ?, Ben Holloway, Joyce Hiatt, Jimmy Jordan, ?, Bobby Copeland.
3rd Row: ?, ?, ?, Louise Virgin, Horace Sawyer, Jo Bart, Jackie Hopkins, Laurine Haynes
5th row: ?, Bernard Tant, ?, ?, ?, Miss Snow, William Ellard, ?, Tommy Anderson, ?.
Miss Snow got married this year and invited the class to her wedding at Druid Hills Baptist Church.
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Identifications contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce and Robert "Bobby" Copeland, who also remembered the wedding invitation.
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1938 Kirkwood Elementary - Miss Calhoun and Mrs Ward's Kindergarten Class
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1st Row: Edith Tolliver, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
3rd Row: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Marlene Sarrett
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Marlene Sarrett O'Brien. Identifications contributed by Marlene Sarrett O'Brien and Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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| 1938 Christmas Program Staged at the Kirkwood Elementary Auditorium featured members of the kindergarten class, first grade, and some older band members. Marlene Sarrett is sixth from the right on the back row. Notice at the other end of the same row the five girls all dressed alike representing the Dionne quintuplets. Click here for larger view. Contributed by Marlene Sarrett O'Brien |
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1939 Kirkwood School - Miss Young's First Grade Class.
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1st Row: ?, ?, ?, ?, Marlene Sarrett, ?, ?.
Contributed by Marlene Sarrett O'Brien. |
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1938 - 1939 Kirkwood School Chorus
1st Row: [Indentifications are given left to right for the first row although it appears to start off as two rows]:.Ben Holloway, Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce, ?, ?, ?, Patsy Ham, Betty Moore Born, ?, ?, Sara Hulme, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
3rd Row: Second from left, Marvin Hardy
4th Row: ?, ?, Tommy Anderson, Mary Louise Roland, ?, Betty Felton, ?
5th Row:
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Indentifications contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce, Robert "Bobby" Copeland, and Beverly Jackson.
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1938 - 1939 Kirkwood School Janette Tillman's Fourth Grade Class
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1st Row: Ben Holloway, Richard Brown, Jimmy Jordan, David Guard, ? (might be William Ellard), Jackie Hopkins.
2nd Row: ? Rainey, Evelyn Wallace, ? Betty Briscoe, Betty "Sophia" Murphy, ?, ?, Patsy Cook, ?
3rd Row: Mary Louise Roland, ?, ?, June Voyles, ?, ?, ?.
4th Row: Miss Tillman, Bobby Davis, Jimmy Stevens, Peacock, Marvin Hardy, Floyd Cooper, Gene Voyles, Jerry Vickery, Bobby Copeland.
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Identifications contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce and Robert "Bobby" Copeland.
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| Kirkwood School - If you can identify the year or provide identifications, please contact us. Contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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Kirkwood School
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1st Row: Barbara Herring, Nita Rae McCurdy, Ann Golden, Florence Stancliff, Shirley Jo Strickland, Juanita Kelly, Sara Hulme, Iris Cathcart
2nd Row: Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett, Mary Frances Belk, Ralph Tolliver, Joanne Parnell, Leonard Allen, Florence King, George Mahaffy, Betty Corley, Norman Franklin
3rd Row: Janelle Donahoo, ?, Patty Shell, Betty Ruth Felton, Betty Sue Hall, Eugenia Petty, ?, Frances Murphy
If you can identify the year or provide identifications, please contact us. Photo and identifications by Claudene Smith Farrar. Contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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Kirkwood School Miss Stubbs' Class
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1st Row: Florence King, Barbara Herring, Nita Rae McCurdy, Ann Golden, Florence Stancliff, Claudene Smith, Janelle Donahoo, Sara Hulme.
2nd Row: ?, Joanne Parnell, Patty Shell, Mary Frances Belk, Eugenia Petty, Betty Corley, Shirley Jo Strickland
3rd Row: Miss Stubbs, Leonard Allen, ?, ?, George Mahaffey, Norman Franklin, Ralph Tolliver, Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett
If you can identify the year or provide identifications, please contact us. Photos and identifications by Claudene Smith Farrar. Contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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Kirkwood School
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1st Row: ?, ?, Edward Carithers, Norman Franklin, Edwin Webster, Leonard Allen, Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett, George Mahaffey
2nd Row: Ralph Tolliver, Eugenia Petty, Joanne Parnell, Florence King, Mary Frances Belk, Barbara Herring, Florence Stancliff, Ann Golden, Iris Cathcart
3rd Row: Shirley Jo Strickland, Claudene Smith, Nita Rae McCurdy, ?, Patty Shell, Betty Ann Jennings, Betty Ruth Felton, Betty Corley, Sara Hulme, ?
If you can identify the year or provide identifications, please contact us. Photos and identifications by Claudene Smith Farrar. Contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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Kirkwood School Miss Moore's Class
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1st Row: Frank Walters, George Mahaffy, Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett, Ralph Tolliver, Norman Franklin, Leonard Allen, Ewell Whatley
2nd Row:Sara Hulme, Claudene Smith, Florence Stancliff, Nita Rae McCurdy, Janelle Donahoo, Hoanne Parnell, Ann Golden, Shirley Jo Strickland, Juanita Kelly, Iris Cathcart
3rd Row: Miss Moore, Eugenia Petty, Frances Murphy, Florence King, Patty Shell, Betty Ruth Felton, Mary Frances Belk, Barbara Herring, Betty Sue Hall, Betty Corley
If you can identify the year or provide identifications, please contact us. Photos and identifications by Claudene Smith Farrar. Contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. |
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1940 Kirkwood School Miss Calhoun's Kindergarden Class
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1st Row: Sonny Golden, Sammy Cathcart, ?, ?, Ralph Jones, Jack Williams, Bobby McWilliams
2nd Row: Pat Sumpter, Wattie McGee, ?, ?, ?, Bill Shuford, ?, Jack New
3rd Row: ?, Ann Carter, Harriett Drew, Betty Barberi, ?, Janet Gaddy, ?, Jan Nesbitt, ? Carolyn Hendricks, ?.
If you can provide identifications, please contact us. Photo contributed by Betty Barberi. Indentifications contributed by Betty Barberi and Larry Webb. |
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1940 - 1941 Kirkwood School - Miss Wheeler's Fifth Grade Class
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1st Row: Horace Sawyer, Ben Rockmore, Bobby Copeland, Jimmy Jordan, David Guard, Jackie Hopkins.
2nd Row: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Bobbie Jean George, Joyce Hiatt.
3rd Row: Bobby Haynes, Evelyn Wallace, ?, Janet Pate, Mary Louise Roland, ?, Evelyn Knight, Marvin Hardy.
4th Row: Donald Turner, Jerry Vickery, Tommy Anderson, Jimmy Stephens, Douglas Cagle, Bobby Davis, Bernard Tant, ?.
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Indentifications contributed by Robert "Bobby" Copeland. |
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1941 Kirkwood School First Grade Class
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1st Row: Harrett Drew, Lou Ellen Jorgensen, James Morgan, Shirley Ransom, Billy White, Ann Carter, Wattie McGee, Judy Campbell, Jack Williams
2nd Row: ?, ?, Carolyn Hendricks, Sonny Golden, Jackie Crews, Shirley Denson, Cary ?, Doris Ashmore, Ralph Jones, Jan Nesbit, Sammy Cathcart
3rd Row: ?, ?, Bobby McWilliams, ?, Betty Barberi, ?, ?, Bill Shuford, ?, ?
If you can provide identifications, please contact us. Photo contributed by Betty Barberi. Indentifications contributed by Betty Barberi and Larry Webb. |
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1941 - 1942 Kirkwood School - [Thought to be] Miss Wheeler's Fifth Grade Class
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1st Row: Jimmy Stephens, Marvin Mills ?, Bobby Davis.
2nd Row: Janet Pate, Bobby Copeland, ?, Jimmy Jordan, ?, David Guard, Bobbie Jean George, Jackie Hopkins, Jo Bart.
3rd Row: Bobby Haynes, Mary Louise Roland, Tommy Anderson, Evelyn Wallace, Bernard Tant, ?, Horace Sawyer, ?, Ben Rockmore.
4th Row: Donald Turner, Douglas Cagle, ?, Marvin Hardy, Evelyn Knight, Floyd Cooper, ?, Jerry Vickery, ?.
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Identifications contributed by Robert "Bobby" Copeland.
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I found an autograph book from 1942 with some 1939 autographs. It may help in putting names with the pictures.
Robert "Bobby" Copeland
Autographs given to Bobby Copeland at the end of Miss Wheeler’s 6th grade class in 1942
Class Mates: - Tommy Anderson, Elsie Jo Armstrong, Jo Bart, Douglas Cagle, Betty Castleberry, Floyd Cooper, Mary Cox, Joy Dailey, Bobby Davis, Helen Fairman, Bobbie Jean George, David Guard, Marvin Hardy, Bobby Haynes, Suzanne Heston, Joyce Hiatt, Dorothy Hill, Jackie Hopkins, Jimmy Jordan, Evelyn Knight, Marvin Mills, Janet Pate, Becky Pinner, Ben Rockmore, Mary Louise Roland, Horace Sawyer Jr., Jimmy Stephens, Donald Turner, Jerry Vickery, Evelyn Wallace
Faculty and Staff - Louise Braselton, Miss Byram, Emily Bealer Calhoun, Edith Clarke, D. W. Clayton, Lucy W. Darden, Marie Ennis, Miss MCrory, Pearl Moore, Dorothy Pennington, Roberta Robson, Elizabeth Silvey, Mary Snow, Lucy Sowell, Ione Thompson, Janette Tillman, Polly S. Ward, Alice Wheeler, Irene Youn
Contributed by Robert "Bobby" Copeland |
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1943 Kirkwood School Miss Talley's 3rd Grade Class.
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1st Row: James Morgan, ?, Sammy Cathcart, ? Douglas Johnson, Jack New, Frank Newman, Jack Williams
2nd Row: Lou Ellen Jorgensen, Jackie Crews, Doris Ashmore, Ann Carter, Shirley Ransom, ?, Carolyn Hendricks, Harriett Drew, Judy Campbell
3rd Row: ?, ?, ?, Faye Hadley, ?, Betty Barberi, Shirley Densen, Bernice Gosdin, Jimmy Gleason
4th Row: James Golden, Don Schubele, ?, Billy White, Bill Shuford, Bobby McWilliams, Ralph Jones, ?, Billy Hester, Robert Hogue, ?, ?, Miss Talley
If you can provide identifications, please contact us. Photo contributed by Betty Barberi. Indentifications contributed by Betty Barberi and Larry Webb.
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1943 Murphy Jr. High - Mr. Graham's Class
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1st Row, left to right: Jacky Hopkins, ?, ?, Roy Drusky, who became a country singer and star of The Grand Ole Opry, Jimmy Jordan, Barfield, ?, Voyles, ?.
If you can identify anyone, please contact us. Photo contributed by Iris Cathcart Jordan-Pierce. Identifications and special memories contributed by Robert "Bobby" Copeland.
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1944 Kirkwood School 4th Grade Class
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1st Row: Jimmy Gleason, Don Schubele, Douglas Johnson, Jack Williams, Frank Newman, ?
2nd Row: ?, Judy Campbell, ?, Ann Carter, Sammy Cathcart, Doris Ashmore, ?, Lou Ellen Jorgensen, James Morgan
3rd. Row: Bernice Gosdin, Wattie McGee, Betty Barberi, Jan Nesbit, Shirley Densen, Harriett Drew, Jack New, Shirley Hudson, Billy White, ?
4th Row: Richard Rockmore, Billy Hester, Robert Hogue, Bobby McWilliams, Ralph Jones, Bill Shuford, Pat Sumpter, ?, ?.
If you can provide identifications, please contact us. Photo contributed by Betty Barberi. Indentifications contributed by Betty Barberi and Larry Webb.
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1945 Kirkwood School Miss Talley's 5th Grade Class
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1st Row: Jimmy Gleason, Don Schubele, Wattie McGee, Bill Shuford, Richard Rockmore, Sonny Golden
2nd Row: ? Greer, Jan Nesbitt, ?, Barbara Foster, Jean ?, Jane ?, Doris Ashmore, Janice Hofmann
3rd. Row: ?, Robert Hogue, Harriett Drew, Joann Bell, Faye Hadley, Jackie Crew, ?, Bernice Gosdin, Ginger Turner, Betty Barberi
4th Row: Bob Bowersox, ?, Larry Shaw, Bobby Bennett, Bobby McWilliams, Pat Sumpter, ?, Mickey McBride, James Morgan, ?.
If you can provide identifications, please contact us. Photo contributed by Betty Barberi. Indentifications contributed by Betty Barberi and Larry Webb.
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1946 Kirkwood School Miss Byron's 6th Grade Class
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1st Row: ?, Bill Shuford, Wattie McGee, Robert Hogue, Bobby McWilliams, ?, Leon Hendon.
2nd Row: Ann Carter, Jimmy Gleason, Doris Ashmore, Don Schubele, Janice Hoffman, Frank Newman, Shirley Ransom, Sammy Cathcart, Patricia Bignardi
3rd. Row: ?, ?, ?, Melvin Wheelus, Janet Lett, Larry Shaw, Joann Bell, Regina Cardell
4th Row: ?, ?, ?, Ruth Bishop, Bernice Gosdin, Patsy ?, Betty, Barberi, Jan Nesbitt, Harriett Drew
If you can provide identifications, please contact us. Photo contributed by Betty Barberi. Indentifications contributed by Betty Barberi and Larry Webb.
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Contributed by Doug Sarrett and Margaret Sarrett Biggs
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| 1946 Newman's Drug Store - Soda jerk Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett also waited on customers that pulled up to the single parking space at the front door for curb service. A five-cent Coke order sometimes included a penny tip for Bob. Contributed by George Sarrett |
Contributed by Robert L. "Bob" Sarrett
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Contributed by York Glass
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1946 Kirkwood Tigers
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1st Row: Water boys
2nd Row: Jimmy Lyons (doctor), John Kiefer, Jimmy McCardwell, James Crumbly, Dan Whitmire, Marvin Hay, Jimmy Gaddy, Buddy Tolliver, Charles Hienold
3rd Row: Tubby Crawford, Big Bill Lunceford, Buster Taylor, Russell Hodgson, Howard Vincent, J.B. Stamps, Hawks, Johnny Dobbs, Carol Shearer, Pat English, Coach Charles Hancock.
Contributed by George Sarrett |
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1947 - Mrs. Byron's Class
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1st Row: Jimmy Gleason, Don Schubele, Frank Newman, boy?
2nd Row: Sammy Cathcart, Doris Ashmore, Billy Hester, Patricia Bignardi, Leon Hendon, Janice Hoffman, Bill Shuford, girl?, boy?
3rd Row: Ann Carter, Larry Shaw, Jo Ann Bell, Regina Cardell, ?, Janet Lett, girl?, girl?, Wattie McGee, Shirley Hudson
4th Row: Robert Hogue, girl?, Betty Barberi, girl? Bernice Gosdin, Ruth Bishop, girl?, Betty Strayhorn, Jan Nesbit, Harriet Drew, Melvin Wheelus
If you can identify anyone in this photo, please contact us. Photo and identifications contributed by Larry Webb. |
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1948 - Ms. Wheeler's 7th Grade The first 7th grade at Kirkwood Elementary after the Atlanta Board of Education did away with junior high schools. With "one pocket buttoned the other not buttoned," Larry Webb identifies himself as third from the right on the top row.
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1st Row: ?, Bill Squires, James Sonny Golden, James Morgan
2nd Row: boy ?, girl ?, Jackie Crews, Jack Williams, Faye Hadley, boy ? Carolyn Hendricks, Bob Bowersox, Barbara Jane Foster
3rd Row: Martha Ann Leftwich, Norman Middleton, Janet Gaddy, Frank Bailey, Judy Campbell, Douglas Johnson, Betty Shaw, Mickey McBride, Barbara Perry, Pat Sumpter
4th Row: boy?, Richard Rockmore, Lou Ellen Jorgensen, Martha Pritchett, Faye Diamond, Patricia Watson, girl?, Larry Webb, Jack New, Bobby Bennett
If you can identify anyone in this photo, please contact us. Photo and identifications contributed by Larry Webb. |
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1948 - Ms. Wheeler's 7th Grade Graduation The first 7th grade class to graduate at Kirkwood Elementary pauses on the school stage for a group photo.
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1st Row: Betty Shaw, Barbara Perry, Martha Pritchett, Faye Diamond, Janet Gaddy, Barbara Foster, Luellen Jorgensen, Elizabeth ?, Ms. Wheeler
2nd Row: Patricia Watson?, Jack Williams, boy ?, Norman Middleton, James Morgan, Mickey McBride, Pat Sumpter, Bobby Bennett
3rd Row: Martha Leftwich, Larry Webb, Jack New, Richard Rockmore, Bob Bowersox, Frank Bailey, Judy Campbell, girl ?
If you can identify anyone in this photo, please contact us. Photo by Leonard Webb, Webb Photography. Contributed with identifications by Larry Webb. |
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Murphy High, Murphy High, M U R P H Y, Murphy High, Fight! Fight!
Murphy High, Murphy High, Murphy Eagles will fly High!
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| 1960 Nana As A Man - Dressed as a man mustache and all in a costume that she made herself, our mother and grandmother Lucile Sarrett, poses with an unidentified friend at Kirkwood Methodist Church Christmas Program. |
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| 1982 Kirkwood Boy's Reunion - George Sarrett is second from the right, second row from the front. Click here for a larger view. Tech High and University of Georgia football star, Gene Chandler is pictured on the first row, second from the right. Read his story. If you can identify anyone in this photo, please contact us. Photo and identifications contributed by George Sarrett. |
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