Way We Were: Lola worked all day, danced all night

50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 8, 1962 – Feb. 15, 1962
Billy Spencer received severe chest bruises while cutting trees at his farm on the Ninevah Road.
A limb he was cutting from a tree that had already been cut down struck Spencer. He was confined to his home.

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J.W. FLYNN FAMILY This photo of the J.W. Flynn family was submitted by Carolyn Casey Steilberg of her mother’s family. It was taken taken by her father, Thomas Casey, in 1937. Family members were, from left, front row: James Quenton, Edwin Curtis and Shirley Jean (twins), Kermit Truman and John Winston Flynn; back row: Martha Alice, Sylvia Maybelle, Mildred Brunelle, Mother Estelle, Daddy John Wyatt Flynn and Granddaddy John William Flynn, Bernard Ray and Harold Blaine Flynn.

Billy Young, son of Charles W. Young, jailer of Anderson County, was ill with rheumatic fever in a San Diego, Calif., hospital. He was expected to be hospitalized for six weeks or more, according to word received by his father.

Marine Pvt. Robert W. Baxter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Baxter, of Route 3, completed four weeks of advanced combat training with the First Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Mrs. Enoch Cubert, who lived on the Harry Wise Pike, purchased a 10-pound bag of Irish potatoes at a local grocery. When she got them home and started to peel them, she noticed one particularly hard one that her knife wouldn’t cut. It proved to be a rock and looked very much like a petrified potato.

John C. Nicholls, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Nicholls of Lexington and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Leathers, received a promotion to Assistant Vice President of the Citizens Fidelity Bank and Trust Company of Louisville.

Jurors summoned for United States District Court at Frankfort were: Ann Blakemore, Carl Birdwhistell, Ben Lyen, Lawrenceburg; Wilmer Best, Alton Station; and C.V. McGuire, Sinai.

A 6-ounce jar of Maxwell House coffee was 79 cents at Model Market.

Jesse Lacefield, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Lacefield of Alton Station was named assistant superintendent of Shelby County Schools.

Keith Klink, eighth grade student at the Lawrenceburg Elementary School was awarded a $25 savings bond as a district winner in the 1961 Soil Conservation Essay Contest. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Klink.

Deaths
Charles Klien Vowels, 64, farmer and extensive landowner; Wade Leon Carey, 34; Roscoe Drury, 76, a retired farmer; John Everett Sparrow, 70, Anderson native; Feldon Sharp, 31, construction worker; Jesse Lee Thurman, 61, bus driver for the Louisville Transit Company; Carl Pryce Williams, 56, retired farmer; Mrs. Gertrude Wash, 86.

30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 11, 1982
Lola Carter, 100, and her daughter, Lula Searcy, 83, were featured in a story about Mrs. Carter’s life.
“We were children together, got old together and are still together,” said the petite 100-year-old referring to her daughter.
Lola Carter was born Feb. 1, 1882 and married 14 years later. Lula is her only child.
One of eight children born to Lewis Gideon and Mary Palmer Perry, Lola worked hard all hr life. “I’ve worked in a bottling house, tomato factory canning tomatoes, at home, staying with people in their homes, and on the farm in the cornfield and tobacco patch with my daddy,” said the Anderson county native.
Even though Mrs. Carter, as her daughter calls her, attributes her long life to hard work, she still had her fun. “I used to work all day and dance all night,” laughed the Broadway resident. “We went to Shell Bryan’s one time. He was building a room onto his house and it didn’t have a roof on it. He had some girls and gave ‘em a dance. We were dancing and the awfullest snowstorm came up you ever saw. We danced all night in the storm. Breakdowns!” she said.
An avid follower of Coach Joe B. Hall and the Kentucky Wildcats, Lola said, “I’m for Kentucky anywhere it’s at.”
Her health had been good, but she had suffered a broken hip twice, causing her to walk with a walker.
“I’ve always liked to work and have worked all my life. It worries me to see Lulie do everything I used to do. When you work all your life and have to stop and sit, it’s misery,” she said.
A reception was held for Mrs. Carter at her residence on roadway in honor of her 100th birthday.
Attending were: Mrs. Carter, Lula Searcy, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Perry, Ollie Perry Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Allen Herndon, Mr. and Mrs. Don Perry and Donna, Mrs. Mary Vaughn, Thelma York, Myrtle Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Waldridge and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Perry, Mrs. Bertha Grace, Mary K. Grace, Emma Perry, Mary Hanks, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Perry, Lynne Perry, Marjorie Bailey, Madeline Sides, Geneva Catlett, Marjorie Carlton, Mabel Carlton, Mary Jane Hume, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown, Mrs. Edna Hahn, Mrs. W.C. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hostetter, Mrs. E. R. Gritton, Emma B. Ward, Robert Cook, Eva Haeberlin, Mrs. John Giles, Janie Buntain, all of Lawrenceburg and Anderson County.
Hollis Perry, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Jewell, Frankfort; Mr. and Mrs. Newton Perry, Harrisonville; Bobbie and Shirley Dunn, Jean Shotwell, Mrs. Billy Hartley, Laura Ritchey and son and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Perry, all of Versailles, plus lots of others who did not register. Many friends also stopped by the next day, which was her actual birthday.

David A. Patrick, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Patrick, was the Anderson County winner of the Jim Claypool Poster Contest.
David Bird, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bird, and eighth grade student at Anderson Middle School was the winner of the annual Conservation Essay Contest.
Deaths
Maudie Mae Sparrow, 84, long-time correspondent from the New Liberty area; Nancy Blockson Burgin, 95; Vada Lloyd Fint Carter, 79, retired from National Distillers; William Curtis Hahn, 35, self-employed forklift operator.

15 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29, 1997 and Feb. 5, 1997
Private First Class Levi Thomas Burns, a native of Anderson County, returned to Kentucky from Ft. Sill, Okla., where he was trained in Artillery Survey for the Army.
He earned the “Highest Physically Trained Soldier” award in his battery. He was also given “Enlisted Man of The Year,” award from his unit.

Anderson County High School’s Basketball Sweetheart candidates were Jennifer Peach, Jodi Neurohr, Sara Dahlen, Crissy Morrow, Angel Neighbors, Misty Robinson and Sabrina Keokuk.

Paul Vaughn Jr., was chosen Citizen of the Month for his community-mindedness.

Laura E. Baker, majoring in broadcasting and electronic media; Trevor Jackson Cox, majoring in industrial risk management; Cara Lin Moffett, majoring in paralegal science; and Janie Rachelle Shepherd, majoring in communication disorders, were on the dean’s list at Eastern Kentucky University.

Deaths
Jeremy Rucker, 21, was killed in a tractor accident while dragging out wood; Billy G. Kirby, 47, heavy equipment mechanic for Kentucky Stone; Marie Richards, 73; Dora Lee Robinson, 70, homemaker; Orville Tackett, 61, retired employee of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company; Capt. Brian E. Termont, 34, died of cancer; Mildred Alice Billiter, 69, retired state department of transportation employee; Edwina Bartlett Carroll, 65.