CLASS OF 1944 Thanks to Sue Lee Johnson, T-51, for scanning the 1944 yearbook. Thanks to Erselle “Leigh” Moran Kendrick, T-48 for collecting the addresses and phone numbers. Click “T” for shortcut to 1944 Virtual Cemetery ACKERMAN, Edward Clayton “Clay” Born: 25 July 1926 Died: 30 November 2005 Philosophy: “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we may be drafted.” Snowden Alumni Lawler Alumni ACREE, Grover Raymond, Jr. Born: 22 June 1926 Died: 15 January 2018 (aged 91) Philosophy: “Smile and the world smiles with you, weep and you weep alone.” Fairview Alumni ADAMS, Gloria (Ferguson) Born: 18 April 1926 Died: 22 July 2020 (aged 94) Philosophy: “To live and enjoy it.” Snowden Alumni AKIN, Guy W. Born: 12 December 1926 *Graduate of August 1944. Died: 23 February 2004 Philosophy: “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you may be drafted.” Humes Alumni ALABASTER, Sammy Born: 6 June 1927, Memphis TN Died: 4 July 2018 (aged 91) *Graduate of August 1944. ALLEN, Martha Louise (Harmon) Born: 8 April 1925, Memphis TN Died: 10 March 2020 (aged 94) *Graduate of August 1944. ALVAREZ, Julia Elizabeth (Fox) Born: 11 December 1926 Died: 1984 Philosophy: “Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.” ANDERSON, Neward Eugene Born: 16 May 1926 Died: 19 June 1985 *Graduate of August 1944. ANDREWS, Barbara June (Bolton) Born: 29 September 1926 Died: 12 August 1998 Philosophy: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Hollywood Alumni ASHBURN a.k.a. West, Jay William Born: 14 June 1926 Used his step-fathers surname in high school. Died: 27 July 1987 (aged 61) Philosophy: “Live and let live.” Fairview Alumni AUSTIN, Ann Elizabeth (Conklin) Born: 22 November 1926 Died: 17 April 2008 Bellevue Alumni BAILEY, William McClain “Mac” Born: 20 October 1924 Died: 29 October 2012 (aged 95) Bellevue Alumni BAKER, Elizabeth Josephine (Drury) Born: 6 February 1926 Died: 9 July 2015 Philosophy: “Live today, dream of tomorrow, learn from the past.” Snowden Alumni BAKER, Horace Ruble Born: 6 October 1925 Died: 22 May 1998 Philosophy: “If you want anything done right, do it yourself.” Snowden Alumni BAKER, Ralph Norman Born: 21 October 1926 *Graduate of August 1944. Died: 5 September 2003 (aged 76) Humes Alumni BAKER, Robert Louis “William” Born: 24 September 1925, New Orleans LA William Barry Baker in 1944 Review need to double-check. Died: 20 May 1979 Philosophy: “Live and let live.” Humes Alumni BATY, Frederick (Need to find) Born: 10 June 1926 Mother: Mrs. A. B. James, 1308 McMillan m. Dina Maria Andreoni her f: Ugo Andreoni Died: Philosophy: “To do the best I can in anything I undertake.” BAUCUM, Charles Edwin Born: 14 August 1923 Died: 20 June 2011 Ambition: “Live the life I love and I love the life I live.” BAUER, Mary Ann (Turnipseed) Born: 21 November 1926 Died: 7 May 2012 Philosophy: “Don’t trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.” Snowden Alumni BEARD, Dorothy Lee (Seaton) Born: 25 July 1925 Wife of William Hafford Seaton, T-43 Died: 4 August 2016 Philosophy: “Live the Life you love and make the most of it.” Fairview Alumni BEATTY, Martha Ruth “Jackie” (Perry) Born: 7 June 1926 Wife of Harold Winston Perry, Jr., T-43 Died: 14 August 2009 Philosophy: “If you can’t have what you like, try liking what you have.” Snowden Alumni BEATY, Byrd (Harris) Born: 30 December 1927 Died: 7 December 2016 Philosophy: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Fairview Alumni BENNETT, Richard Earl Born: 22 May 1926 Died: 15 March 1995 Philosophy: “Take the best of care of the present, and the future will take care of itself.” BETHANY, Mickey Gloria (Sullivan) Born: 14 September 1926 Died: 11 March 2021 (aged 94) Philosophy: “Live and let live.” BEYERS, Marietta Cartwright Born: 28 January 1924 Died: 24 August 1979 Philosophy: “Silence is golden.” Snowden Alumni BIGGS, Jack Clayton Born: 13 January 1927 Died: 31 January 2021 (aged 84) Philosophy: “To reach the top in anything I do.” Snowden Alumni Lawler Alumni BILLINGSLEY, Martha (Walker) Born: 23 December 1926 Died: 9 November 1999 Philosophy: “Smile and the world smiles with you; cry and you cry alone.” Bellevue Alumni BLUDWORTH, Richard Edwin Born: 24 June 1926 “Killed in Action WWII - Forever Honored” Died: 11 February 1945 (aged 18) *Graduate of August 1944. BOLTON, William Lee (Need to find) Blanche Houston (Forrest) Born: 2 May 1925, St. Louis MO Draft Card has Billy Lee Bolton 1996 living in Riverview MI Died: Philosophy: “Experience is the best teacher.” Bellevue Alumni BOND, Verlan Valeria Born: 22 February 1925 Died: 6 February 2000 Philosophy: “A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.” Snowden Alumni BOWDEN, Daniel, Jr. Born: 30 August 1926 Husband of Elsie Jean Meredith, T-47 Died: 9 May 2013 (aged 86) Fairview Alumni BOWERS, Milton Born: 5 December 1925 Son of Milton Bowers, T-17 Died: 3 September 1983 (aged 57) BOYCE, Boykin Boone Born: 9 November 1926 Died: 3 July 2020 (aged 93) Philosophy: “Never put off until tomorrow what could have been done today.” Fairview Alumni BOYD, Melvin Earl Born: 23 September 1926 Died: 4 April 1982 BRANNOCK, Vera May (Lee) Born: 18 January 1926 Died: 16 June 2018 (aged 92) Philosophy: “Never trouble trouble and trouble won’t trouble you.” BRASWELL, Thelma Louise (Hipp) Born: 4 June 1927 Wife of Logan Albert Hipp, T-44 Died: 15 September 2011 Philosophy: “Brood over your troubles and you’ll have a perfect hatch.” Hollywood Alumni BRECHEEN, Walter Louis Born: 9 March 1927 Died: 7 April 2011 Philosophy: “You have to lick boots till you get where you can give orders.” BROWN, Billy Gene Born: 10 October 1927 Died: 1 September 1981 *Graduate of August 1944. BROWN, Edward Melton Born: 30 March 1927 Died: 18 February 1964 Ambition: “Mechanical Engineer.” Fairview Alumni BROWNING, Billie Lee (Coker) Born: 8 May 1926 Died: 24 May 2009 Philosophy: “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” Messick Alumni BRYAN, Kathleen (Welman) Born: 12 April 1927 Died: 19 August 2018 *Graduate of August 1944. BULLEN, William Lyall, Jr. “Bill” Born: 3 February 1927 Died: 10 October 2014 Philosophy: “Be truthful with myself and honest with others.” Humes Alumni BUTLER, Robert Jefferson, Jr. Born: 19 June 1929 Died: 22 February 2014 *Graduate of August 1944. CALDWELL, Geraldine Lacaska “Jerry” (Swain) Born: 24 April 1925 Died: 17 March 2006 (aged 80) Philosophy: “Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.” Fairview Alumni CAMP, June Frances (Smartest Girl) Born: 16 October 1926 Died: 5 January 1982 Philosophy: “To err is human, to forgive is divine.” Snowden Alumni CAMPONOVO, Vivian Helen (O’Connor) Born: 16 September 1925 Died: 6 June 2019 (aged 93) Philosophy: “To be successful in anything I undertake.” Snowden Alumni CARDEN, Artis Dewey Born: 19 December 1925 Died: 15 April 1990 Philosophy: “Golden Rule.” CARUTHERS, Betty Jane “B.J.” (Hill) Born: 22 October 1926 Wife of Raymond David Hill, Jr., T-42 Died: 21 October 2015 Philosophy: “If it’s worth doing, it is worth doing well.” CASON, James Braxton Born: 1 December 1925 Died: 18 March 2001 Ambition: “To be able to master Automotive equipment, in other words—(A Parts Man). But if the problem of entering the Armed forces confronts me, I would prefer the Army.” CATHERS, Joanne Gene (Martin) Born: 24 November 1926 Died: March 1995 Philosophy: “There are two days about which we should never worry, yesterday and tomorrow.” Fairview Alumni CATHEY, George Arlee, Jr. (Most Popular Boy) (Most Valuable Boy) Born: 11 November 1924 Died: 18 August 2012 (aged 87) Philosophy: “Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you.” Lawler Alumni CAUDLE, Eugene Leroy, Jr. Born: 7 December 1925 Husband of Lois Loraine Mattice, T-44 Died: 1 November 2006 Hollywood Alumni CHAMBERS, Elvis Paul Born: 18 March 1926 Maybe: 4908 Mockingbird Lane, Memphis TN 38117 Died: Unknown Philosophy: “Strive hard and success will be your reward.” Sacred Heart Alumni CHAMBERS, Mary Sue (Thomas) Born: 24 March 1926 Died: 29 September 2016 (aged 90) Philosophy: “Haste makes waste.” CHANDLER, William Bernard, Jr. Born: 13 October 1926 Died: 23 November 1965 Philosophy: “It’s not the final score that counts; It’s the way the game was played.” Bellevue Alumni CHANOINE, Bryon Keith Born: 24 September 1926 Died: 12 July 2002 (aged 75) CHEEK, Rose Lee (Massie) (Need to find) as of 28 March 2020 Born: 20 June 1924, Doerun GA Died: Future gravestone. Philosophy: “Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you.” Snowden Alumni CHILDRESS, Edward Earl (Handsome Boy) (Need to find) Born: 5 December 1925, Memphis TN Castro CA Died: Philosophy: “When in doubt, don’t.” Bellevue Alumni CHUMNEY, Robert Elliott Born: 2 October 1925 “Killed in Action - Forever Honored” Died: 1 March 1945 (aged 19) Philosophy: “Do unto others before they do unto you.” Fairview Alumni CLARK, Irma Jeanne (O’Connor) Born: 23 March 1926 Her brother Milton Lawrence Clark, suicide, 1955. Died: 14 November 2019 (aged 93) Philosophy: “Beauty is only skin-deep.” Bellevue Alumni CLARK, Ronald William Born: 11 September 1925 Died: 23 February 1988 Philosophy: “There’s no secret to success—you get there by working for it.” CLAYTON, James Osborne (Need to find) R. B. Clayton (Vinton) Born: 15 June 1925, Selma LA Died: Philosophy: “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy; it is what you think about.” COCKRILL, Benjamin Thomas (Most Likely to Succeed) Born: 1 July 1925 Gold Star brother of Elijah Lacy Cockrill, Jr., T-38 Died: 17 December 1997 (aged 72) Snowden Alumni Lawler Alumni COLLIER, Alma Jean (Need to find) R.M.