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Read moreFamilies are gearing up once again in Clearview to celebrate another Labor Day weekend. One family, the Golden Family, will meet during the holiday weekend for a century of meeting together, 100 years. The most popular story of the first reunion is that the matriarch of the family, Dolly Golden, requested of the man who married her daughter Dollie that if he moved her to California, he would bring her back to visit each year on her September 1st birthday. He made that promise and kept it each year before his death on April 19, 1989. at age 92.
Read moreWork continues with the old school grounds parking lot. Sympathy is extended to the Ted Jackson family. Services for Ted Jackson will be graveside at 10:00 a.m. at Fairlawn Cemetery in Weleetka and a Memorial service at the Clearview gymnasium following. All are welcome to attend both services. Johnny West is home form the hospital on hospice. Please say a special prayer for the family. Wilbert and Ida Mae Zackery are now home from the hospital and doing better. Please continue your prayers for those on our sick list: Taft Forshee, Tiger French, Wilbert and Ida Mae Zackery, Lloyd Samilton, Yolanda Jackson, Becki Stripling, Christopher Stripling, L.C. and Irene Carson, Marjorie Plunkett, and Earnest Hamilton.
Read moreLabor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Read moreCharlotte Louise Jackson Walker ~ “Persevered Educator”
Read morePosted on May 14, 2022 Nearly 250 friends, family, UNC and community leaders, social workers, and School of Social Work faculty, staff, and students gathered for a dinner celebration on May 13, 2022, to honor the legacy of Hortense King McClinton, the first Black faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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