Larry Delano Hale

LHS '64

September 4, 1945 - January 26, 2019

(Editor's Note: As we continue to work on items for the upcoming reunion we continue to find out about some of our classmates who have passed away. We will continue to report these as they are discovered.)

Larry Delano Hale, 73, of Huntsville, passed away Saturday, January 26, 2019.

Mr. Hale is survived by his children, Scott Hale (Buffy), Kevin Hale (Leslie), Matthew Hale (Shelley), and Adam Hale (Angela); eight grandchildren; brother, Robert H. Hale (Ruth); and a number of nephews.

 Burial was at Miller Cemetery in New Market, Madison County, Alabama.

Lucy Agnes Jones Kephart

Lunchroom Manager of Lee High School

June 4, 1921 - July 6, 2022

Lucy Agnes Jones Kephart, 101, died July 6, 2022, in Bartlett TN, after a brief illness. She was predeceased by her husband of 56 years, Andrew J. Kephart, Sr., her son Dwight, her grandson William Andrew Dunbar, two brothers, Joe and Albert, and three sisters, Nancy Ann, Maxine, and Eleanor. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Wayne Dunbar of Memphis, and son and daughter-in-law Jack and Betsy Kephart of Huntsville. She is also survived by four grandsons, Chris and Brad Dunbar, Jamey Kephart and Richard Kephart, and six great-grandchildren. 

Mrs. Kephart was born June 4, 1921, in Tippah County Mississippi to Max Jones and Jesse Burgess Jones. She and Andy married May 1, 1943. They and their three children moved from Jacksonville NAS to a new job at Redstone Arsenal in 1952. 

Because of her experience managing school lunchrooms in other cities, she became the first lunchroom manager of Lee High School in 1958. She stayed there for 29 years, finally retiring in 1987. Successfully managing a lunchroom at a large high school is hard work, but she cared about the job, the people she worked with and her students. One of her favorite tasks was feeding the football teams before their Friday night games which she and Andy faithfully attended. The football team and their coaches showed their appreciation on several occasions with awards of recognition at the year-end football banquets. Even after she retired she and Andy went to as many games as they could. 

She, and a friend who was an Alabama state legislator, worked faithfully in Montgomery to make the working life of lunchroom employees more like that of other staff and faculty: providing lunchroom employees with health insurance and retirement benefits and salaries paid year-round. 

After retirement, her main interest, by far, was being with grandchildren in Memphis, Mulberry, Tennessee. and Huntsville. It made for a lot of driving, but they were dedicated. And were rewarded by being loved. She never stopped caring about her country and the world. She and Andy read their daily papers front to back and watched the evening news faithfully. They took many road trips just to see new places and new people. 

She and Andy had disappointments and tragedies, dealt with them quietly, then moved on to whatever came next. They attended Lincoln Church of Christ for many years. After Andy died she attended Twickenham Church of Christ. 

She spent her last ten years at a special care home near her daughter in Tennessee. There she was blessed with kind caregivers and one special person whose light shined so bright that she must be mentioned and given the appreciation of a grateful family. Quita T. cared for her precious Ms. Lucy the entire time she lived there. They grew to love each other. Quita grieves as the family does. The family will receive friends Monday, July 11, 2022 at Spry Funeral Home from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. The service will follow in the chapel at 11:00 a.m. Interment will be in Maple Hill Cemetery on Monday at 2:00 p.m.

Reunion Planning Continues

The reunion committee has designed the form below to use for you to register for the upcoming reunion. If you are using a desktop PC computer, point your mouse to the form and right-click it. Save it to your desktop as a photo and you can print it out from there. Other devices can screen print the form and print it out as well.

Please complete the form and return it as soon as possible so the committee will have a better idea of how many plan to attend. Final arrangements are still being made for the catering of the meal and a few other details, but the time, place, and cost are now firm. It has been determined a cost of $50 per person ($100 per couple) will be charged for participants.

The committee is scheduled for another meeting this week to finalize the details.

How I Spent My 2019 Christmas Vacation

(Continued from Last Issue)

Rainer Klauss

LHS '64

Due to the large size of this story, we have added the complete story of Rainer's 2019 Christmas Vacation to our "Full Stories" section of Lee's Traveller. To read it, look in the list of pages on the left of this screen and under "Full Stories" you can click on it. 

Well, I have exausted all the photos from the 1960 The General, Lee Junior High's yearbook. I hope you have enjoyed these trips down Memory Lane for the last few months. If anyone has any photos of our times at Lee and wish to share them, please contact me.

I am looking forward to the activities being planned for the upcoming reunion. This will primarily be a time to visit with old friends and I hope many of you who may never have attended a reunion will take this last opportunity to do so. We may never get the change again to do so, so even if it is going to be different than our past reunions, it will still offer a change to see old friends.

This Week's Questions, Answers, Comments

Pamela Parsley Holt, '65, "Glad to finally join this group with updates on fellow classmates."

Bob Pierce, LHS ‘64, "Good Rainer; keep it up."

Bob Pierce, LHS ‘64, "Still looking for more voices who are coming to the reunion 615.444.4321"

A Song to Set the Stage for Our Upcoming Reunion