Terrell School about 1947/48

1st Row left to right: David DOSTER, Billy Joe TUCKER, Billy GARNER, Marlin ADAMS, Paul HUNT, Sue GALLIMORE 2nd Row left to right: David HUNT, Paul Wayne BUTLER, Janette BOLTON, Peggy TUCKER, Joyce DOSTER, Nancy SNIDER, Nancy TILLEY & Sandra WALLER (not students), Marilyn TODD, Wanda Ann GARNER, Mrs. Blanch BRASFIELD (Teacher). 3rd Row left to right: Bobby KENNEDY, Bernard TODD, Billy DUDLEY, Charles GALLIMORE, Howard DUDLEY, Bobby WITHERINGTON, Wanda MOSELY, Ruth HUNT, Garey MOSLEY. 4th Row left to right: Jerry WATSON, Ann FINNEY, Mary Elizabeth TUCKER, Dan DUDLEY, Doyle COOPER, Sterling PEERY, Elizabeth Ann TODD, Rebecca VICKERS, and Tommy DUDLEY.

This picture was taken circa 1947-1948 school year at Terrell School, Lower Sharon Road, Dresden.  Blanch Brasfield was the teacher.  The school had two rooms, but only one room was used for teaching the last few years.  Terrell was located 1.5 miles off Greenfield Hwy 54; the structure is no longer standing.  The school closed at end of school year 1949-50.  Mignon Mayo Kelley was the last teacher.   I started school there in Fall 1945; my parents, Lewis and Mary Coleman Garner, sent me to Dresden Elementary School at the beginning of my 5th grade year in 1948.  I had been promoted from 3rd Grade to 5th Grade by Mrs. Blanch.  My father went from one through eight grades of schooling at Terrell, going through the Eighth Grade a number of times because he did not have means to go to high school. Submitted by Wanda Powell

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