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50 GOLDEN YEARS FOR RED HINES AND DEBBIE BEARDEN HINES

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                   HINES FAMILY PHOTO GALLERY  Golden 50 th anniversary for Red Hines and Debbie Bearden Hines   Debbie Bearden Hines, Class of 1973, and Jerome “Red” Hines, Class of 1968, who live in Fairmont, celebrated their 50 th wedding anniversary April 13.   Their daughter, Tami Danette Winston, hosted their celebration party at the Oasis Rec Center in White Hall.   Debbie gushed: “It was an amazing party.”   Red and Debbie’s other child is Nakia Jerome Hines.   Tami gifted Debbie and Red with 4 children: Taylin Dobbs, Printess Winstn IV, Knight-Shawn Winston and KaShylin Winston.   Nokia’s children are DaRius Hindes, Aubreyel Hines and Zylan Hines.   Red and Debbie are from Carolina where they attended grade school. They first got together in 1969.   Red played basketball, football and track for Monongah High.   Red retired from Blacksville #2 mine after 42 years.   Red rode his motorcycle with the Magnificent Souls gang of Fairmont and was into restoring the 2-wheeled transp
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LINDA NOTTINGHAM WILLIS AND DAVIS WILLIS CELEBRATE 59TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

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                        LINDA AND DAVE WILLIS   59 th  wedding anniversary  for Linda & Dave Willis Linda Nottingham Willis, Class of 1964, and Dave Willis, Class o 1961, celebrated their 59 th wedding anniversary. They live in Worthington. Linda posted: “Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband and best friend. I am proud to say that it is 59 years today. I love you now and forever. “ They first met at Worthington Beach.  Linda and Dave have sons Shawn and Kevin (married to Christa) and 3 grandsons. Shawn is the widower of Melissa, a victim of Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease. Linda was born to  Virginia Minardi Nottingham and Russell J. Nottingham. Linda, who worked for State Farm Insurance after being a majorette and class officer at Monongah High, married Dave Willis in 1965. Linda’s brother,  John Tommy Nottingham, Class of 1968, married Victoria Blocker Nottingham, Class of 1969.
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BRENDA SCRITCHFIELD JACKSON, BORN IN MONONGAH, PASSES AWAY

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                                                BRENDA SCRITCHFIELD JACKSON                                              WIDOW OF DONALD RAY JACKSON AND EARL GAMES WILLIAMS                                                                 Brenda Scritchfield Jackson, born in Monongah, passes away Brenda Scritchfield Jackson, born in Monongah, passed away Thursday, May 2 in Mannington. Lindsay Sutphin-Williams, Brenda’s grandchild, posted: “Brenda raised me and my brother for the majority of our lives. She was my best friend. I have truly never met a person like her, so full of kindness and hope. “I am so grateful for her and everything she did. She never stopped fighting. She was there for everyone through thick and thin. She loved everyone no matter their faults. “She loved to dance, loved horses and her farm. She loved to take care of people and help people. She was an extraordinary person. “We are all gonna miss her so much but she is not suffering anymore and she is in heaven riding
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MORE THAN HALF OF CLASS OF 1974 WILL BE THERE FOR 50th ANNIVERSARY REUNION

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  SHEILA MOBLEY McCLUTCHEON (ABOVE) AND SABRINA HAUGHT (BELOW) More than half Class of 1974 will show up at 50 th reunion The annual Monongah High Alumni Banquet died out after 100 years after its 2023 farewall but Sheila Mobly McClutcheon posts that “about half our 59 (Class of 1974) graduating class has signed up!!!” for the 50 th  anniversity reunion of the Class of 1974. The Class of 1974 reunion will be at 5   p.m. Monday, May 27 th at the Ellis Restaurant, 5776 Shinnston Pike in Meadowbrook near   Shinnston. Sheila added: “It free, except for your meal, which can be spaghetti and meatballs with salad and bread or steak hoggie with peppers, onions, sauce and home-made chips or the Big Bubba plate-sized burger served with the home-made chips.” Sheila and Sabrina Haught are organizing the reunion. Sheila’s phone number is (304) 319-7373 if you want to attend the Class of 1974 reunion. Sabrina lives in Worthington and is a pastor at TLC Ministries.
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MEYA KOTSKO, CIERRA PARKER GET MHS ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS

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                                                                          MEYA KOTSKO                       CIERRA PARKER  Meya Kotsko, Cierra Parker win MHS Alumni scholarships at North Marion   Meya Kotsko and Cierra Parker are the recipients of the Monongah High School Alumni Scholarship for 2024. Meya's parents are Frankie and Stephanie Vandetta. Cierra's parents are Shawn and Colleen Parker. Meya works at the Krusty Krab. She got the Samuel Nelson Elliott Foundation Scholarship. As for Cierra Parker, her North Marion High sports career led to a Concord College athletic scholarship, too. She has finished first in West Virginia state high school track and on the Huskies basketball team that won a state title. Cierra recalled: “I started running track in seventh grade.” She thought: “Man, this would be so cool to do in college.” Now she will. Cierra, Abby Master, Rylee Delovich and Trinity Hine won the 4x200 meet relay at the 2021 state high school track meet when Cierra was
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CATCHING UP WITH THE CLASS OF 1962

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  CATCHING UP WITH Class of 1962   From left: Nellie Joann Davis Thompson, Pat Fleming Satterfield, Don Pitman, wife and Fairmont West graduate Joan Pitman, Marlene Davis Christopher, Lenore Jean Wright Moore, Sara Sturm and Brady Moore, Lenore’s husband.   A photo of a reunion of the Class of 1962 grads sparked my interest.   In the photo (from left) was Nellie Joann Davis Thompson, Pat Fleming Satterfield, Don Pitman, wife and Fairmont West graduate Joan Pitman, Marlene Davis Christopher, Lenore Jean Wright Moore, Sara Sturm and Brady Moore, Lenore’s husband.   Joann married Don Thompson. She was on the MHS prom committee, in the Junior Red Cross, class treasurer as a junior and class secretary as a senior, in Y Teens and in the MHS fashion show. Pat Fleming Satterfield was in the National Honor Society, on Student Council, prom princess, co-editor with Sandra Lipinski of the 1962 Black Diamond yearbook, drum majorette with the award-winning Monongah High band, in c
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