HELP US FIND THESE
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“Lost Westerners” (Missing List), Lubbock
High School Class of 1954, Revised 06/10/2008
Please help us find these "lost" Westerners. See
all
information we have, below pictures. If you have any information,
please email Sylvia Billings
Etter or Joe Dale Bryan
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 John Richard
Bush, Jr.Help us
find him ...
1. John
Richard Bush, Jr. lived at 2601-25th / VIC '53 /
born in Lubbock on 12-29-34 to Beatrice Arden RIDDLE & John
Richard BUSH (a carpenter)/ DEATHS: BUSH Beatrice A 10-5-71
Travis Co.; Richard lived in Rockwall at mother's death; may
have gone by J R, Jr. / (?)Bush John
Richard Sr. died 10/10/1989 Dallas / son, John Richard Bush III
/ a second cousin,
Terry Thompson,
7108 Aberdeen Ave., Lubbock, TX 79424-2030,
806-794-2410,
is trying to help us / 1-10-07 Sylvia talked to Karen Smith
and/or Shawn Bush (Lubbock 806-792-4526), siblings of John
Richard Bush III, who lives in New Braunfels, to have him
call her as to his father's location / John Richard Bush III's
mother, Barbara Ann Bush, 69, died Lubbock 1/7/2007.
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 Patricia Eleanor
FlynnHelp us find
her...
2. Patricia
Eleanor Flynn, lived at Lubbock Hotel / ‘53 annual only /
father, Harold W. Flynn (Cora), manager of Lubbock Hotel to 1960
when it changed to Pioneer/ Pat telephone operator in '56, '57 city
directory /
10/20/06 Harold W.
Flynn of Killeen, TX, 254-634-9203, distant relative, is
checking for us (11/06 can't find). |
 Jerry
Boyd GrahamHelp us
find him ...
3. Jerry
Boyd Graham, lived at 2620-Amherst in ’53 WW phone book;
3116-Grinnel in ’54 phone book; Plainview High School ’51, Prop
Busters '52, BBC '53, VIC-ICT '54 / father, Rev. A. C.
(Gracie), asst. pastor at Temple Baptist Church, only in '54
city directory. |
 Harold
Frank HoldenHelp us find him...
4.
Harold
Frank Holden, lived at Rt. 7 (3007-Erskine) / DE '54; annual
says Central High Florence, AL ‘52, ’53; however, his picture is
in ‘52 to ‘54 LHS annuals / father, Claude F (Anabel), partner.
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 Lonnie
L.(?) JonesHelp us
find him ...
5. Lonnie
Jones, Wichita Falls High School ’52; ’53; Westerner '54,
Sr. copy editor '54; WW '54, advertising staff '54; rept. '54;
Hi-Y '54 / WW phone book
2410-26th ST.; 1955 city directory Lon L. Jones,
student Tech (not in any Tech annual) 3519 27th St. /
father, Carl L. Jones (Evaline), mgr. F W Woolsworth.
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 Jean Ann KelseyHelp us find
her...
6.
*Jean Ann Kelsey, on graduation list; not in annuals; lived at 4217A-34th/
mother, Mrs. Bernice J. Kelsey, sec. Thomas Bros.; in ‘55 Jean
A., secretary for Commercial-Industrial Life Insurance.
* No
picture
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 Wesley Lee "Doc" NorrisHelp us find
him...
7. Wesley
Lee “Doc” Norris, FTA '53, '54, parl. '54 / lived at 2123-18th
rear; also,
apartment at Rix Funeral Home /born 3-26-35 as NORRIS, Wesley
Lee; sister born 4-9-36 NORRIS, Frances Anne both to Minnie
Anna BAXTER & Eldred Durran NORRIS, both in Motley Co.; Sister
is now Ann Osborne (Blythe, husband), live in Robinson, TX,
phone 254-662-4192; last time she saw Doc was 15 yrs ago at
mother’s funeral in Afton, TX (Crosby County death records,
Minnie Myrtle Norris 12-6-97) / Doc lived in the Phoenix area
/ May
go by Richard Norris.
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 Joyce Ann Payne Brunelli
Help us find
her...
8. Joyce
Ann Payne Brunelli (?), lived at 2123-18th;
later 1809- Ave. S / ‘55 & ‘56 Tech annual, A&S / father, C B
Payne (Delilah) truck driver / Y-Teens '52-'54; Gens
Togata '52, '53; Melvin Dewey '53, '54; Jr. Red Cross '54. |
 Marna Lee
PerkinsHelp us find
her...
9. Marna
Lee Perkins, lived at 219-Hartford /(?) '53-'55 city
directory shows Paul R. or D. Huffman (Matalie or Nadine) carpenter at this
address; ‘53 city directory Marna Perkins, saleswoman, Gosselin
Stores No. 1 / Westerneraires '53; Jr. Thespians '52-'54; Debate
Club '54. |
 Nancy Jane
SwindlerHelp us
find her...
10. Nancy
Jane Swindler, lived at 2021-63rd, later
(?) 2115A-20th St. / Y-Teens '52, '53; FBLA '52; VIC-ICT ’54 / father, J Roy
Swindler (Willie), driller.
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 Brooks Allan
TaylorHelp us find him...
11.
Brooks Allan Taylor, lived at 2407-5th /
Thomas Jefferson High, San Antonio ‘52 / graduated Bethany
Nazarene College (now Southern Nazarene College), Okla. City /
minister for awhile / Siblings Roy B. in Wolfforth, phone
806-866-0004, Wayland phone 806-792-9310, Chris Dennison phone
806-799-6542, Lubbock & Marie Chaffin in Dallas phone
972-247-4877 & Mrs. Lloyd (Lisa) Thompson, daughter, Lubbock
phone 806-797-0362 don’t know where he is. Last known address
Gun Barrel City, TX / family thinks he's in Arlington /
born Hale County, 4-27-36 to Julia Shuey and Brooks W Taylor / Lubbock County Death records: TAYLOR, Brooks
W 1-5-66 M; TAYLOR, Julia Gertrude 2-9-95. |
 J. P. TaylorHelp us find him...
12. J.
P. Taylor, name in graduation program / picture
in ‘52 annual only / no info in city directory.
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 Myrtle Thelma
WeaverHelp us
find her...
13. Myrtle
Thelma Weaver, lived at 1918-6th
/ El Club Panamericano '52-'54; Y-Teens '52, '53; NHS ’54, Interscholastic League
District ‘53; Regional, State Contest '53 / father, Robert T
Weaver (Lillian) woodworking foreman @ Reese AFB.
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 Barbara
WerfelmanHelp us find
her...
14. Barbara
Werfelman, picture only '54 annual; not on graduation list; not in ’53 or ’54 WW
phone book / no Werfelman's in '53-'56 city directory.
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“Lost
Westerners” (Missing List), Lubbock High School Class of
1954, Revised 06/10/2008
1. John
Richard Bush, Jr. lived at 2601-25th / VIC '53 /
born in Lubbock on 12-29-34 to Beatrice Arden RIDDLE & John
Richard BUSH (a carpenter)/ DEATHS: BUSH Beatrice A 10-5-71
Travis Co.; Richard lived in Rockwall at mother's death; may
have gone by J R, Jr. / (?)Bush John
Richard Sr. died 10/10/1989 Dallas / son, John Richard Bush III
/ a second cousin,
Terry Thompson,
7108 Aberdeen Ave., Lubbock, TX 79424-2030,
806-794-2410,
is trying to help us / 1-10-07 Sylvia talked to Karen Smith
and/or Shawn Bush (Lubbock 806-792-4526), siblings of John
Richard Bush III, who lives in New Braunfels, to have him
call her as to his father's location / John Richard Bush III's
mother, Barbara Ann Bush, 69, died Lubbock 1/7/2007.
2. Patricia
Eleanor Flynn, lived at Lubbock Hotel / ‘53 annual only /
father, Harold W. Flynn (Cora), manager of Lubbock Hotel to 1960
when it changed to Pioneer/ Pat telephone operator in '56, '57 city
directory /
10/20/06 Harold W.
Flynn of Killeen, TX, 254-634-9203, distant relative, is
checking for us (11/06 can't find).
3. Jerry
Boyd Graham, lived at 2620-Amherst in ’53 WW phone book;
3116-Grinnel in ’54 phone book; Plainview High School ’51, Prop
Busters '52, BBC '53, VIC-ICT '54 / father, Rev. A. C .
(Gracie), asst. pastor at Temple Baptist Church, only in '54
city directory.
4.
Harold
Frank Holden, lived at Rt. 7 (3007-Erskine) / DE '54; annual
says Central High Florence, AL ‘52, ’53; however, his picture is
in ‘52 to ‘54 LHS annuals / father, Claude F (Anabel), partner.
5. Lonnie
Jones, Wichita Falls High School ’52; ’53; Westerner '54,
Sr. copy editor '54; WW '54, advertising staff '54; rept. '54;
Hi-Y '54 / WW phone book
2410-26th ST.; 1955 city directory Lon L. Jones,
student Tech (not in any Tech annual) 3519 27th St. /
father, Carl L. Jones (Evaline), mgr. F W Woolsworth.
6.
*Jean Ann Kelsey, on graduation list; not in annuals; lived at 4217A-34th/
mother, Mrs. Bernice J. Kelsey, sec. Thomas Bros.; in ‘55 Jean
A., secretary for Commercial-Industrial Life Insurance.
7.
Wesley Lee “Doc” Norris, FTA '53, '54, parl. '54 / lived at 2123-18th
rear; also,
apartment at Rix Funeral Home /born 3-26-35 as NORRIS, Wesley
Lee; sister born 4-9-36 NORRIS, Frances Anne both to Minnie
Anna BAXTER & Eldred Durran NORRIS, both in Motley Co.; Sister
is now Ann Osborne (Blythe, husband), live in Robinson, TX,
phone 254-662-4192; last time she saw Doc was 15 yrs ago at
mother’s funeral in Afton, TX (Crosby County death records,
Minnie Myrtle Norris 12-6-97) / Doc lived in the Phoenix area / May
go by Richard Norris.
8. Joyce
Ann Payne Brunelli (?), lived at 2123-18th;
later 1809- Ave. S / ‘55 & ‘56 Tech annual, A&S / father, C B
Payne (Delilah) truck driver / Y-Teens '52-'54; Gens
Togata '52, '53; Melvin Dewey '53, '54; Jr. Red Cross '54.
9. Marna
Lee Perkins, lived at 219-Hartford /(?) '53-'55 city
directory shows Paul R. or D. Huffman (Matalie or Nadine) carpenter at this
address; ‘53 city directory Marna Perkins, saleswoman, Gosselin
Stores No. 1 / Westerneraires '53; Jr. Thespians '52-'54; Debate
Club '54.
10. Nancy
Jane Swindler, lived at 2021-63rd, later
(?) 2115A-20th St. / Y-Teens '52, '53; FBLA '52; VIC-ICT ’54 / father, J Roy
Swindler (Willie), driller.
11.
Brooks Allan Taylor, lived at 2407-5th /
Thomas Jefferson High, San Antonio ‘52 / graduated Bethany
Nazarene College (now Southern Nazarene College), Okla. City /
minister for awhile / Siblings Roy B. in Wolfforth, phone
806-866-0004, Wayland phone 806-792-9310, Chris Dennison phone
806-799-6542, Lubbock & Marie Chaffin in Dallas phone
972-247-4877 & Mrs. Lloyd (Lisa) Thompson, daughter, Lubbock
phone 806-797-0362 don’t know where he is. Last known address
Gun Barrel City, TX / family thinks he's in Arlington /
born Hale County, 4-27-36 to Julia Shuey and Brooks W Taylor / Lubbock County Death records: TAYLOR, Brooks
W 1-5-66 M; TAYLOR, Julia Gertrude 2-9-95.
12. J.
P. Taylor, name in graduation program / picture
in ‘52 annual only / no info in city directory.
13. Myrtle
Thelma Weaver, lived at 1918-6th
/ El Club Panamericano '52-'54; Y-Teens '52, '53; NHS ’54,
Interscholastic League District ‘53; Regional, State Contest '53
/ father, Robert T Weaver (Lillian) woodworking foreman @ Reese
AF.
14. Barbara
Werfelman, picture only '54 annual; not on graduation list; not in ’53 or ’54 WW
phone book / no Werfelman's in '53-'56 city directory.
* No
picture
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Total Number of 1954 Alumni on List
10
no pictures (not including J Tidwell)
516 pictures on website roster
526 total
402
alumni
2
honorary
404 on
mailing list
105 deceased
1 class of 1953
14 no address (plus 2 below):
1 Sam
Houston Allred (See R G
Box or Joe Dale Bryan); lives in Mexico City (see his website)
1 Dencil K. D. Watson (see Jerry Etter
& G W Maxwell); lives in Lubbock
526 total (includes 12
graduates in January, 1954)
[ Janice Tidwell,
not on graduation list, no pictures in all 3 annuals, not in ’53
or ’54 WW
phone book; on 1994 and 1999 missing list and 2000 LHS
Directory, unconfirmed. 9/23/06 Barbara Dunn Lewis
believes this is sister of Charlotte Tidwell ('62) who graduated
with Barbara's sister, both daughters of Floyd Tidwell (Post
Office employee, lived on 6th Street), and Janice may have been
class of '64 (possibly Monterey). I believe this is an error in
2000 LHS Directory and that she was not in our class; therefore,
not included in numbers.]
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Old Classmate?
Have you been guilty of looking at others your own age and
thinking...surely I
cannot look that old? You may enjoy this short story, which could be
true....
While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room of a new
dentist, I noticed his certificate, which bore his full name.
Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the same name had
been in my high school class some 50 years ago.
Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This
balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to
have been my classmate.
After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended LHS. "Yes," he replied. "When did you graduate?"
I asked.
He answered, "In 1954. Why?" "You were in my class!" I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely and then asked, "What did you teach?"
Courtesy
of Nancy Abbott Loveless
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