A few months ago, a photo of a Grove Christmas Ornament was posted on our Facebook page. There were a lot of comments about it and guesses regarding where it could be purchased. With the help of Jim Jimerson and Gary Odom, we were able to locate the creator of the original ornament. I have been in touch with Ben Cordsen at Cordsen Design, who has provided me with an overview of what could be done today should we have...
Our 1952 classmate, Mary Amanda Hailey, passed away on June 4, 2026 in Collierville, TN. Our sympathy to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindaGrave website and linked to the Class of 1952 Virtual Cemetery. Ridgeway Funeral Home is handling the arrangements, and her obituary can be found on their website. Visitation and services will be held Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Memorials may be made to St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude...
Apologies for the delay in updating some of the most recent posts while we were leading a group of friends, family and clients traveling through Eastern Europe. A big thank you to Susan Stewart for taking over the Facebook page while we were away! This was a particularly enjoyable trip for us, as Arlene was able to connect with some distant nieces on the Kandzer side of her family who live in Czechia. We took a train from Vienna to...
New 'Theme' for Grove Website This happy young guy is a future descendant of one of our Grove classmates. He wants to be sure all our history is preserved for the future! Just a gentle hint that we still really need someone to volunteer to help ensure this site will continue for a long time into the future. I've put him up today to introduce the new version of the site. It is not 100% complete, so you may see...
Hi, fellow classmates! You may have noticed we’ve been offline for a while due to a change in some of the underlying software used by the site. I am happy to say that I believe everything is now back in order, and the site should be operating as it was before. You may see a lot of posts at once now, as I catch up with the ones I missed. Thank you for your patience during this outage, and best...
Harold Jackson Jr of the Class of 1953 passed on Thursday, Mar 20th. Our condolences to his family and friends. A memorial has been created for him on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Grove Class of 1953 Virtual Cemetery. See his obituary at https://www.mcevoyfuneralhome.com/obituary/harold-jackson-jr
Our 1965 classmate, Keith “Hecktor” Hatcher, passed away on November 2nd in Paris. Our sympathy to his family and friends. A memorial has been created for him on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Class of 1965 Virtual Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Ridgeway Funeral Home, and his obituary can be found on their website.
Well, we’ve had some good news for a change today about the reunions, but some of you may have seen some errors in the post that was sent. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever understand the back end of this website. The authors of some of the routines I use just seem to revel in changing them, leaving those of us who use them in a constant state of confusion! All this is to say that when I post...
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.
Our 1966 classmate, Hattie Reynolds Smith, passed away on August 13 in Paris. Our sincere condolonces to her family and friends. A memorial has been created in her name on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Class of 1966 Virtual Cemetery. Services will be held for her on August 31st. Details can be found on the McPhearson-Rawls Funeral Home website.
We could not let the day pass without noting that our Facebook page passed a notable mark today with a total of 600 users. We really appreciate you all and are glad that so many stay in touch. On behalf of Becky, Susan and myself, thank you for your participation. We appreciate the photos and stories you share and the gratitude you have shown for this venture. Recently, we made a slight tweak to our rules and now allow family...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have helped us during the year, especially Susan Stewart and Becky Hedges, as well as all who have taken the time to read our posts. We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
Another of our 1961 classmates, Beverly Jinelle Hainley, passed away last Sunday, December 17, 2023 in Jackson. Our sympathies go to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave site and linked to the 1961 Class Virtual Cemetery. Her obituary can be found on the Ridgeway Funeral Home website.
Our 1966 classmate, Patricia “Pat” Massey of Puyear, TN, passed away last Sunday. Our condolences to her family and friends. Her memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave site with a link to the 1966 class Virtual Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Ridgeway Funeral Home.
Our 1961 classmate, Sue Gail Evans Carlton, passed away on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at her residence in Puryear. Our condolences to her family and friends. Services are being handled by McEvoy Funeral Home. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave site for her and linked to the 1961 class Virtual Cemetery.
Our 1969 classmate, Jean Carol Reynolds Gray, passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at her home. Our condolences go to her family and friends. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at McPhearson-Rawls Funeral Home Chapel with visitation beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave site for her and linked to the 1969 class Virtual Cemetery.
Yesterday we learned that our 1961 classmate, Clyde Enoch, passed away in Alabama on October 15. Our sympathy to his family and friends. A memorial to him has been placed on the FindAGrave website with a link to the 1961 class virtual cemetery. His obituary can be found here, posted in the Paris P-I.
We've just learned that our 1962 classmate, Charles N. "Chuck" Raymer passed away today. Our sympathy to his family and friends. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave site for him and linked to our 1962 Class Virtual Cemetery. His obituary can be found on the Ridgeway Funeral Home website.
We are sad to report that our 1961 classmate, Togie Rushing, passed away on Saturday. Our deepest sympathy to his family and friends, and especially to Susan Stewart, who works with me on this site and was a lifelong family friend. Susan has posted a memorial to him on the FindAGrave site with a link to the Class of 1961 Virtual Cemetery. His obituary can be found on the Ridgeway Funeral Home website.
Hello, everyone! Once again I am behind on Grove news, but hopefully today will be the start of a better way to keep up. I enlisted the help of someone far more technical than myself to help me set up a way to send future posts to the mailing list and to Facebook. This is a website post, but a copy is going to our mailing and also to the Grove Facebook page. Fingers crossed! ? ***For our Facebook users,...
We're getting there! I'm testing the Facebook page and mailing list. Sorry...I would limit the audience if I could. [caption id="attachment_1310" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo courtesy of Shannon McFarlin.[/caption] As an aside, I love this picture from Shannon. I hope to use it as a logo on future posts. It certainly does bring back memories. Just filling in here, because I want to put some text in to test both sides. So what a good time to say how absolutely grateful...
The Class of 1962 will be holding their 60th reunion on Saturday, September 17th. It will be a luncheon held at 12:00 noon at Moustos Pasta & Grill, 305 East Wood Street. For those of you will be staying over, a number of rooms have been blocked at the Hampton Inn, 1540 Mineral Wells Ave. (Tel: 731-407-7274). While the luncheon is the only formal event planned, some class members will be arriving early and/or staying later for small get-togethers, so...
I hope this message finds everyone happy and healthy. Finally we have some good news to report! Members of the Class of '62 are planning a 60th reunion. A luncheon will be held at Moustos Pasta-Grill at 1305 E Wood St. on Saturday, September 17th. We are working on a group rate that would cover the 16th and 17th at the new Hampton Inn at 1540 Mineral Wells Avenue. It will be a great time to catch up. Although the...
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...
Latest Update Hello, fellow classmates! I hope this update finds you healthy and happy, looking forward to the coming signs of Spring. It looks as if Covid is finally on the run, and things are getting back to almost normal. Here in Florida the temperature is set to be 88º later this week, and 90º is not far away. We'll be heading to Georgia in a few more weeks to try and squeeze a little more Spring temperatures out before the...
I hope everyone is having a good summer and staying safe. Henry County Archives I am often contacted by people who either need copies or would like to donate copies of old Grove yearbooks. Yesterday, Stephanie Tayloe, who is the Archivist in charge of the Henry County Archives & Genealogy Library, got in touch to let me know that old year books can be given to their Library. Their address is: Henry County Archives 215 Grove Blvd. Paris, Tennessee 38242...
Norma was born in Henry County, Tennessee, on March 2, 1938, the daughter of the late John Foster Brown and Cornelia Routon Brown. She attended Grove School (class of 1956) and later graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a degree in ornamental horticulture and landscape design. She had a long career with Midland Brake (now part of Haldex) and was the Director of the Paris-Henry County Heritage Center from 2008-2015. She was a member of the First Presbyterian...
Beverly Anne Meals Wood, age 91 of Paris, Tennessee passed away Friday, June 25, 2021 at her residence. Her funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time but will be posted on this site as soon as available.
Here's a quick update that you may find helpful: I have just added a link to the right side of the site called "Post Category". (You can view the right column on any page except the home page.) It is a drop-down menu that allows you to select a category and view all posts in that category. When you click on the "Select Category" button, you will see every category entered into the site so far and how many posts...
Obituaries are my least favorite task that I must perform in maintaining this website. I'd much rather be fiddling with the images or helping someone find information in the site. I tend to put them off, but yet they are important as we all want to honor the memories those who have passed from us. I will continue to make an effort to post them as I learn about them. But therein lies the problem, because I do not always...
Hello, all! I have found a way to notify you each time a post is created on the website. The updates will come 3 times a week, for now, and only come out if there is a new post since the last update. If that is too much or too little, they can be changed or even eliminated altogether, but I thought perhaps everyone might like to know as the site grows. Please feel free to comment - let me...
Several changes were made to the site this morning. I decided to remove the windowed view of the original and accessible websites and am opening them both in a new window in full screen mode. This should improve readability and mobile phone access. A "Search Site" page has been added to the window to help you find results on the original Grove site more easily. Sample posts were created (see below) I have created some sample posts , including the...
The site was updated today to add frames within which the user can view both the original and "easy to read" versions of the site. The new menuing system is now operational as an overlay which should allow for better navigation. A link to the mailing list signup form has been added to this site (opens in new window). The code that was used previously to enter comments and make updates to the site no longer works, but all comments...
This site is completely self funded. Instead of asking for donations, we have decided to sponsor it by our travel agency, The Savvy Traveler. If you are considering a cruise, an excursion or even a short break, please let us know - we would love to help!
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