LOOKING BACK July 24, 1996
By Dixie Terry
From the July 24, 1996, issue of The Goreville Gazette comes the following: The Gambit Golf Club Grand Opening will be August 29, with Joe Wisocki as head pro and a member of the Professional Golf Association.
One hundred special invitations will be mailed to local golfers. The general public can begin play on Aug. 30. The fees will be $30 for 18 holes on week days and $25 on weekends, with 9 holes at $18 and $22.
Pictured at the Regional Office of Education, with special speaker, Larry Stonecipher, were Goreville teachers, Lynni Puello and Charlotte Leal.
Seen was Leigh Anne Childers, who has received a softball scholarship to Wabash Community College in Mt. Carmel. She has been a catcher for the GHS Lady Blackcats and is playing this summer for the Southern Express All-Star Team of Carbondale. She is the daughter of David Childers of Goreville and Cheryl Childers of Hurst.
Pictured were Monica Lee Tinsley and Christian Kyle Vinyard, both of Paducah, who will be married on Aug. 3 at 6 pm at the First Christian Church in Paducah. Her parents are Steve Tinsley and Ms. Tauria Tinsley of Paducah. His parents are Phyllis and Paul Vinyard of Goreville.
Pictured were Heather Lee Ruhe and Todd Richard Hunt, who will be married on Nov. 8 at the Goreville Baptist church. He is a 1990 graduate of GHS and she is a 1991 graduate of GHS.
Pictured were the descendants of the Basil Fate Perry family, the cousins who met for a reunion on June 23 at Ferne Clyffe Park. The seven sons and daughters are all deceased, but several dozen cousins gathered, including these from Goreville: Agnes Perry, Ron and Wilma Stroud, Ernest and Clara Faye Perry,Brennan Lingle, Randall and Hayley Hammersley, Hazel and Omer Craig, Sandy and Tom Lively, Shane Clark, Michael and Lilly Craig, Jerry Johnson, Lavon and Sharon Johnson, and Don, Vonda, Alexandria and Corbin Carlton.
Last week’s Mystery Photo was a difficult one, but was finally identified by Charity Phalin as that of Nell Terry Stokes. Charity was the winner of a plate lunch special from the Dinner Bell Restaurant of downtown Goreville.
Nellie Jane Terry was born at Marion Memorial Hospital on Aug. 7, 1965, to Moses E. and Betty Franklin Terry. She has four sisters: Terry Lambert, Goreville; Barbara Woodrome, Marion; Rosita Scully, Aurora; and Joyce Stryker of Northbrook; and one brother, Michael McKinney, Sikeston, Mo.
Nell attended Goreville Grade School and graduated in 1983 from Goreville High.
She was married to Scott Stokes and they have a daughter, Amanda, age six.
Nell has worked as a cashier at Skelly’s Truck Stop and as a secretary at Goreville Auto Parts.
Nell’s hobbies include growing flowers, taking care of birds, walking and playing with Amanda.
And so it was, on July 24, 1996, in Goreville and Lake of Egypt.