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Here's Pugh School - Grades K-6 and the start for many of us

 

 

Kindergarten Pugh School 1945

Back Row:  Mrs. Maude Vigels (principal), David Reed, David Curtis, Gary Doolin, Danny Weber, Ronald Pitman, Billy Eckert, Margery Knierim, Minnie Nixon, Mae Myers, Mrs. Ellmin Herrin (teacher): Middle Row: Bob Kirby, Marilyn Chaney, Janet Curry, Linda Vance, Carol Durbin, Karen Bartels, Patty Noonan, Margaret Barnstable, Cecila Camp, Linda Lou Tate, Harold Cazier: Front Row:  Sammy Ann Latch, Jackie Anderson, Linda Jones, David Smith, Patricia Krohn, Sammy Dempster, Cheryl Garver, Ronald Childs, Virginia Rogers

Karen is standing in the middle between Carol Durbin and Patty Noonan - cropped view taken from the above photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Ethrington's Pugh School First Grade Class - from Cheryl Garver

 

Row l (closest to the right),  Linda Vance, Cheryl Garver, Dean Lanckton, Beverly Lanckton, Teddy Oakley, Bob Kirby, Jerry Lambert; Row 2, Linda Tate, Eugene Pyle, Karen Bartels, Larry Harris, Robert Head, Elizabeth Nixon, Donald Whitacre; Row 3, Diane Brown, Sonia Brooks, Jeanne Carr, Bob Calvert, Robert Sorrell, Bruce LeBeau (?), Margery Knierim; Row 4, Larry Varvel, John Frede, David Reed, George Elliott, Rosemary Runnels, Janice Moore, Betty LuAllen

  

Karen has her hair all in braids today

 

 

 

 

 

The 1951 Birthday party - from Cheryl Garver

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Bartels - from Cheryl Garver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progressing to Junior High at Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

Roosevelt Junior High School - 1954 Group Photo

Karen is standing near the left end, next to Paul Guyer (in the middle of this cropped photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And on to Stephen Decatur High School for Sophomore and Junior Years ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then to MacArthur High School - First Graduating Class 1958

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Lee Bartels - MacArthur High School 1958 Yearbook Photo

  Mixed Chorus, Tri-Y, Paint and Powder, Thalia, Office Occupations  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MacArthur High School Class of '58 - 50th Reunion in 2008

Back Row (all standing) L-R: Dave Tosh, Willy Sigmon, Charlie Lockhart, Rick Stark, Bill Stoner, Jerry Freeman, Bob Felts, Judy Starr, Stanley Hecht, Jim Beard, and Dave Yocum

Third Row (all standing) L-R: Jim Talbert (blue shirt), Carroll Taylor (tan jacket), Karen Bartels England (dark dress), Gloria Pulliam Leeds, Betty Moore Hagen, Diana Shorb Eyre (lady in tan outfit), Judy Hendrian Wittenauer (colorful jacket), Janice Duncan Ford, Megan Elizabeth Nixon Rainey (camel tan outfit), Patsy Forcum (purple top), Brenda Palian Tabor (lady in blue outfit just back of Alice's right shoulder), Carolyn Hungness (gray sweater), Kay Gray (very dark sweater), Cheryl Garver Schmidt (print jacket), Linda Vance, Wanda Dillinger, Mignon Strickland (purple outfit), Shirley Morenz Taylor, Helen Waller Roman, Terry Musgrave (standing in back), --21--, --22--, Bob (Skip) Mueller, Jan Quigle Frede (lady in dark outfit), and Steve Mumma

Second Row (seated) L-R: Sam Dempster (seated on stool), Janet Wicker Dobbertin, Linda Tate Nelson, Gloria Shields Bates, Betty Fuqua Harris, Sandi Rutherford Esworthy, Jean Willms Holderby, Alice Eversole, Marilyn Schmidt Harris, Nancy Taylor Wade, Marilyn Chaney, Sharon Essex Walters, and Phil Blankenburg (kneeling in dark jacket)

Front Row (seated) L-R: Roger Campbell, Ed McQuality, Bob Gendry, Dale Coulter, John Kapernick, Pat Reed, and Julian Ridlen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class of 1958: Reunion in 2008, the Mini-Reunion in 2009 and Classmates Luncheon

Karen Bartels England, Linda Tate Nelson, and Mae Kater Karen Bartels England, Linda Tate Nelson, Brenda Mathis Sensenig, and Mae Kater Karen, Cheryl, Nancy and Sheila
     
Cheryl, Karen, Margie and Marilyn Karen and Loren Nelson, Hubby of Linda Tate Karen Bartels England and Jean
     
Karen, Cheryl, Nancy and Sheila Cheryl, Karen, Margie and Marilyn Karen with Ed and Ilene McQuality
     
Karen and Brenda Karen and Nancy Karen and Brenda
     
Karen, Cheryl, Jean, Diane and Nancy Classmate's Luncheon: Loading Up Mae, Jan, Karen, Cheryl, Jean, Diane and Nancy
     
     

 

 

 

 

Jerry and Karen Bartels England