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This is Margery Knierim Wilcoxen's Personal Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marge's Poems

 

Marge's Personal Page

 

My favorite Roosevelt Junior High teacher was Mrs. Williams. She taught only the first semester until Mr. Carter Caudle finished his military tour. We learned a lot of poetry. Some I have forgotten, but some I have carried with me through the years. These are two of my favorite and I'm sharing with my Classmates and my family.

  
     
"Stars" by Sarah Teasdale link "Preparedness" By Edwin Markham link
   
Alone in the night on a dark hill    For all your days prepare,
With pines around me spicy and still,   And meet them ever alike:
And a heaven full of stars over my head,   When you are the anvil, bare -
White and topaz and misty red;      When you are the hammer, strike.
 Myriad of beating hearts of fire  
That aeons cannot vex or tire;  
Up the dome of Heaven like a great hill,  
I watch them marching stately and still,  
And I know that I am honored to be  
Witness of so much majesty.  


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Marge in the back row between Bill Eckert and Minnie Nixon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pugh School - First Grade - Teacher Mrs. Ethrington

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

Marge is in the back at the top center of this cropped photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5th Grade Pugh School 1950-1951 - Miss Cohron

Back Row:  Miss Cohron, Dean Lancton, Margery Knierim, Lois Abraham, Marilyn Willhite, Pat Hoffman, Barbara Hilderbran, Mae Myers, Pat Allen; 2nd Row:  Linda Cahail, Linda Tate, Vernon Fitch, Bob Sorrell, David Reed, Billy Eckert, David Schultz, Bob Kirby, Marilyn Chaney, Patsy Parker; Front Row:  Nancy Rubin, Kay Guise, Sharon Wicker, Patty Piers, Sammy Ann Latch, Phyllis Heir, Judy Corn, Janet Banfield, Stephany Garver; On floor:  Gary Catlin, Ronnie Wilber, Jim Andrews

Marge in the middle of the back between Dean Lanckton and Lois Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progressing to Junior High at Roosevelt

 

From the photo above, can you see Marge peeking out ...?

 

 

 

 

 

 

And on to Stephen Decatur High School

 

 

 

 

Graduation yearbook photo from Class of '58

 The Prom with Ernie Dash - SDHS '58

Glee A, Advanced Girls, Songsters, President Songsters, dolphin Club, Vice President and President, Latin Club, "Sweethearts," Vespers, All State Chorus, Big Twelve

  

 

 

 

 

The Dolphin Club at the Decatur YWCA

Taken from the above photo ... Marge in middle row, just left of center (light jacket)

 

 

 

 

And from the Oct 17 2009 Mini-Reunion

 

 

 

 

 

And with her family ...

Marge with her Daughter-in-Law Lisa, Granddaughter Gail, and Grandson Mark in the Swiss Alps. The photo was taken the summer of 2005, in Switzerland. This was the year after Sam died. Marge's son, Dave, took the picture at the top of the Schilthorn Alp links to videos and photo inks.  We spent three weeks in Switzerland. Week one and three we stayed with Lisa's sister near Zurich photo images. The second week we stayed in a farm house near Bern photo images. Our transportation was train, bus, and bicycling, with a lot of walking thrown in. 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a week long trip I took to Biloxi, Mississippi to help build and finish a house after Hurricane Katrina.

 

 

 

 

This is the picture that I had at the reunion. Christmas 2007, Gail is holding Lyndsey, Grandma Marge is holding Ben and Carly. Next is Mark and Bethany.  I hope we can get an updated picture this Christmas.

 

 

Dave, Carol, Dan and Marge with the grandchildren Mark, Gail. Bethany, Lyndsey, Carly and Ben

 

 

 

 

 

Classmate's Luncheon of 12/18/2009 at Brenda and Jack's in Decatur

Cheryl and Marge Cheryl, Diane, Nancy and Marge
   
May 14th 2011 - Mini Reunion Mini Reunion i Decatur
   
   
   

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