by Ralphine Major | Apr 10, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “Before school age we wore short pants, down to about the knees, and a little later on wore knickers. The short pants and even knickers often were made by Moma. She was an excellent seamstress. Material was usually bought at a dry goods store or...
by Ralphine Major | Apr 2, 2017 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:” 2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV) By Ralphine Major My cell phone rang. The caller was letting me know that he would not be able to attend our reunion. As a former teacher and coach at Gibbs High...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 27, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “In the mid-1920s, Dad and Walter McBee bought the store in Corryton from the McClellans and called it The Luttrell & McBee Co. Our family moved from Luttrell House to the apartment above the store. Luttrell House was rented to tenants,” he...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 20, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com Memphis, Tennessee, became home for the McGinnis family from 1964 to 1977 as Perry continued his career in the field of dentistry. After practicing general dentistry in Knoxville, Perry spent the next several years as a U.S....
by Ralphine Major | Mar 12, 2017 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The timeline of events as told by the late Woodrow Luttrell is packed full of history. Words that were meant to communicate with his family’s younger generations are being shared with Focus readers, giving a rare glimpse of life during the early 1900s. Woodrow...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 6, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major With only one snow and record-breaking warm temperatures, January and February are behind us. March has arrived with her usual windy conditions. As I pen this column, several schools have already dismissed in anticipation of the thunderstorms...
