Our 1949 classmate, Horace Whitehead, passed away in Paris on Tuesday, September 17th. Our condolences to his family and friends. A memorial will be created for him on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Virtual Cemetery for the class of 1949. Visitation and services will be held at McEvoy Funeral Home in Paris on Friday, September 20th. His obituary can be found on the McEvoy website.      

Dear readers, I've been a bad webmaster! I have allowed myself to send you the good news, happily letting you know about some of the reunions and other "nice" things that have been going on. But sadly, we have had bad news, class deaths, since the last ones I last posted on the site. I have been placing them on the Grove Facebook page, but I know that many of you are not seeing them. So I apologize for that and...

Hello, fellow classmates, As we continue to add new memorials to Findagrave and our virtual cemeteries on that site, I would once again like to thank Susan Stewart, who is an expert on that site and continues to be invaluable to me in keeping this up. Also, a big thanks to Andy Hooper, who recently sent information on several classmates from his class, 1959. I thought that since there are 4 individuals updated, it would be simpler to send them...

Elizabeth Brooks Hamlin, age 88 of Henry, TN, died Monday, June 14, 2021. She attended Springville, Atkins-Porter, and Grove schools in Henry County, graduating from Grove in 1949.  Elizabeth began working at Commercial Bank before marriage, and later as a civilian, she worked for the USAF for 25 years.  She retired in 1988 from the Blytheville Air Force Base in Arkansas as the base suggestion program manager and moved back to Henry County in 1991.  Upon retirement, she spent numerous...

Retired Brigadier General Roland L. Parkhill, age 88 of Paris, TN, died Friday, October 9, 2020, at his residence. He was born in Paris on June 11, 1932, to his parents, the late R.L. "Sonny" Parkhill and the late Lucy Rose Bomar Parkhill. On July 2, 1955, he married Ailene Davis Parkhill, known to him as "Enie", who survives, of Paris. A 1949 graduate of E.W. Grove High School, General Parkhill retired from the Tennessee National Guard after more than...