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Home Journal Photo by Charlotte Perkins
FAVORITE PASSAGE The 90th Psalm
is one oj Henry Taylor's favorite passages
Grimes watch grandson
play for state ball crown
Clifford and Sylvia
Grimes attended the state
baseball championship
May 14 in Anniston, Ala.
Their grandson, Michael
Hutchings, son of Mike and
Debra Grimes Hutchings,
played for Geneva County
High School against Ran
burn High School and won
both games of the double
header for the state cham
pionship.
Michael and eight of his
teammates have played
baseball together since
eighth grade. They are now
seniors and will graduate
May 28.
• ••
Wendell and Betty Whip
ple have returned from a
vacation to France with his
three daughters.
Mary Brent Schwaber of
Arden, Del., and Barbara
Kazarov of Montclaire, N.J.
flew together and Marsha
Selten of Laramie. Wy. t flew
from New York and all
managed to meet up with
Wendell and Betty in Paris
within 15 minutes of each
other.
They spent five fun-filled
days in Paris seeing all the
sights, and Marsha, who
teaches ballet at the Uni
versity of Wyoming, even
managed to get a ticket for
the Opera. They made the
trip to Versailles and
attended Mother's Day
Mass at Notre Dame Cathe
dral.
The girls did the driving
of the rental car so their
dad and Betty could do the
looking as they made a
southwest loop down the
Loire Valley, to Mt. St.
Michelle and to Normandy
and back into Paris.
All the husbands kept all
the young children so the
sisters who are such good
friends could make the trip
so memorable for their dad.
•••
Terry Todd was honored
by family and friends May
22 at Perry Country Club
with a huge 50th birthday
party. It was ' reunion of
his high school clasamai.es,
friends and family mem
bers.
Favorite among his gifts
was a shadow box of mem
orabilia which included his
dad's motorcycle police
man's Jacket gathered
of scripture. He is reading from his much
worn Bible.
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together by his wife Beverly
and his sisters, Rita Hall of
Dublin and Patsy Jordan of
Bartow.
• ••
Congratulations to Mar
cie McGukin and Brent
Snapp of Gainesville who
became engaged in April
and are making wedding
plans for June of 2000.
Marcie is working at
Crossroads Bank since
graduating from Auburn
and Brent works for Mit
subishi and is studying
computer programming.
• ••
Congratulations to
Amber Fendley upon mak
ing the Dean’s List at Geor
gia College and State Uni
versity. She is majoring in
criminal justice and will
graduate in December.
Amber will pursue a career
in law enforcement, hope
fully with the GBI.
• ••
Sincere sympathy to Ann
Huffman and her family
upon the death of her hus
band, Leon Wyant Huff
man, May 10.
• ••
The marriage celebration
of Kelli Woods and Stacy
Chitty was that indeed.
Everything from the hour,
6:30 p.m. through to the
sleek black limousine that
swept them away to the
Fetterman Museum recep
tion was the ultimate in
formality.
Flowers, greenery, white
silk bows and white can
dles, smoke gowns for the
attendants, black tuxedos
for the groom and grooms
men, the blond bride a
vision in white, readers,
vocalist, organ and piano
music, trumpeters and
members of the Albany
Symphony Orchestra made
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Wed., May 26, 1999
Graduating at 79
Henderson resident Henry Taylor
will graduate from college June 5
By CHARLOTTE PBRKEVB
Horn. Jocwuu. Sranr
June 5, 1999, will be a big day
for Heniy Taylor. That’s the
day he reaches a long-cher
ished goal. He will receive his
diploma from Emmanuel Bible
College and Theological Seminary.
Georgia Attorney General Thurbert
Baker is to be the guest speaker. The
graduates will all have good reason to be
proud but none more than Taylor, who
is the oldest graduate in the class, at age
79.
While his studies at the Bible School
started six years ago, Taylor’s love of
learning began in the 1920’s when he was
just a boy growing up in south Houston
County. He was one of 11 children of
Marie and Preston Taylor.
“I always wanted to go to school when I
was coming up in Elko," he said, “but in
those days sixth grade was as far as you
went unless you were fortunate and had a
way to get to Peny.”
Young Heniy wasn’t one of the “fortu
nate ones". After six years of walking five
miles each way to a one-room school
house, and having to cut his studies short
each year to work in the fields, he left
school. He helped his father who was a
farmer and a blacksmith.
Still, he had a dream. In a time and
place where mules and wagons were still
more common than automobiles, Henry
Taylor had his eye on the future. He
wanted to learn how to be a mechanic.
“When I was little. I’d put two chairs
together upside down and lay under them,
pretending I was fixing a car," he recalled
while laughing.
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7 was like the inchworm. You know
the inchworm. He goes one inch at a
time, but he gets where he’s going.’
Henry Taylor
For the young dreamer, the hard times
of the Great Depression brought the New
Deal programs of Franklin Delano Roo
sevelt. In his teens, Heniy Taylor signed
up for the National Youth Administration
program. He traveled to Hubbard's Train
ing School in Forsyth to study mechanics.
Once he was back home, there was no
money for tools and equipment, so he
continued to help in the blacksmith shop
until 1939. Then he Joined another New
Deal program, the Civilian Conservation
Corps. Taylor left for south Georgia where
he planted out trees, built bridges, cut
canals and received still more training in
his chosen field.
World War II broke out. and Taylor went
into the army. There he finally was able to
work as a mechanic.
“I was like the inchworm," he said, “You
know the inchworm. He goes one inch at
a time, but he gets where he’s going."
Wartime and army service gave the
young man from Houston County more
training and experience. It also led to
meeting his future wife, Dorothy, in Victo
ria, Texas.
“It was a divine thing," he said, explain
ing that he was to be transferred three
times, and each time the transfer was
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