JIM McDANIEL CELEBRATES 81st BIRTHDAY
Jim McDaniel in Air Force and in recent years
81st birthday for Jim McDaniel
Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960, celebrated his 81st birthday August 18.
Jim lives in Behoboth Beach, Delaware.
Jim spent in the Air Force serving his
country for 23 years. He reached the rank of senior master sargent.
His grandfather, Carroll Currey, owned the hotel, bank and movie theater in
Monongah, all in the same block. Carroll also had a car dealership on 7th
street in Fairmont. Jim's mother's sister was Ava Currey Cogar, who lived across U.S. 19 (Camden Avenue) with her husband Fred and was the best friend of my mother, Lena Futten Olesky. I listened to Ava cuss like a sailor during her visits to our Church Street home.
Jim met two Monongah High graduates during his
Air Force years, Sam Bearden and Larney Cain, both from Carolina. Jim grew up
in Worthington at 103 Maple Avenue. He was there in the 1940s and 1950s. He
left Worthington in 1960 to begin his Air Force career.
Ronald Larry Cain was Class of 1961 and
later lived in Monongah. Dennis Cain was Class of 1963. Larney Cain was Class
of 1958.
Jim's son, also named Jim McDaniel, of course, was born in Nurenburg, Germany in 1964.
Papa Jim lives in Behoboth Beach, Delaware
in Sussex County with 1,400 other people. The temporary population swells to
25,000 when the summit tourists including Senators and members of the House in
Congress from Washington, D.C. show up. The first Europeans arrived in that
area in the 17th century and drove out the Delaware tribe. Behoboth
Beach was founded in 1873 as a site for Methodist camp meetings and
incorporated in 1891.
Papa
Jim is the last survivor of the McDaniel generation that lived in Worthington. He
has 10 great-grandchildren, the oldest named after Jim.
Jim
was best friends with John Moore, Class of 1956, for more than 70 years till
John passed away. And Jim Nottingham, Class of
1961, who passed away in 2018.
Jim
Nottingham met monthly in Worthington with Edward Burley, Class of 1962;
Roy “Jaybird” Murphy, Class of 1966; Joe McCullough, Class of 1962; David
Willis, Class of 1961; Clifford Morgan, Class of 1961; Harold Maze, Class of
1961; Wilbur Smith, Class of 1960; and Howard Shuttlesworth Jr., Class of 1972.
Jim
Nottingham was a lifelong friend of the late
Nelson Jay Starcher, Class of 1960, who married Karen Cool Starcher. Jim
Nottingham, Robert Harbert and Harold Maze once went together to Rehoboth Beach
to have a reunion with Jim McDaniel. Harold Kniceley also visited Jim McDaniel
at Behoboth Beach.
Jim
McDaniel and Jim Nottingham were Worthington Grade School patrol patrol boys
together who made a 3-day trip to Washington, D.C. as their reward. Jim
Nottingham missed a year of school at Monongah High after being shot in a
hunting accident near Harter Hill.
Jim
McDaniel has a Facebook page if you’d like to catch up with about your lives
since Monongah High. So does Jim’s son, also Jim McDaniel.
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