Lee High School - Huntsville Alabama Alumni

Valdosta, GA - Please remember our Classmate Sonny Turner in your thoughts and prayers in the loss of his wife and another Classmate Winona Brown Turner. Just last week Winona sent in an answer to our Mystery Photo contest and her death was quite sudden to many of us.

Sue and I are spending the night in Valdosta on our way to Miami to catch a cruise on Monday.

Please include your class year with your e-mails.

T. Tommy

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Winona Brown Turner

Class of '65

June 10, 1947 - Oct. 16, 2009

Huntsville native Winona Brown Turner lost her battle with cancer on Friday. She was 62.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Ida Mae Walker Brown; her brother Larry Brown; and her precious angel - her son, Michael Paul Turner, whom she had for 27 years before the good Lord took him to heaven.

She is survived by her best friend, her husband Robert M. "Sonny" Turner; her son, David Scott Turner; daughter and son-in-law, Dena and Jeff Makamson; her precious grandchildren, Kayla Marie Cox and husband Blake, and James Robert "Robby" Turner; her sister-in-law, Clara Brown; nephews, Ricky and Wayne Brown; niece, Sherry Brown; aunt, Janie Tidwell; and her special sisters, Linda Lands and Brenda Keel.

The family has planned a private memorial service and interment at Maple Hill Cemetery.

Published in The Huntsville Times on October 18, 2009

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Great Halloween Stories

Told and Retold

by Tommy Towery

Class of '64

Some stories are made to be told and retold generation after generation. We all listen each year to those famous Christmas tales that have become classics.

When called upon to tell a Halloween story on myself, there is one that always comes to mind. Many of you have read it in the past, but there are many new readers this year thanks to an influx of Huntsville and Butler High students.

So, click on the link below to see my classic horror tale and send me yours so that I can share them with other readers.

MY HALLOWEEN STORY

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Mark Robinson, Class of '69 - This weeks items are from the game CLUE! and used for Murder.

Top left to right:

Candlestick, Knife, Wrench, Lead Pipe

Bottom left to right:

Rope, Revolver

Just played a couple months ago with wife and daughter. I lost of course.

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Barb Biggs Knott, Class of '66 - These are the murder weapons used in the Parker Bros. classic board game ‘Clue’; Col.Mustard in the Conservatory with the rope. We have that board game along with Sorry, Monopoly and Payday and still enjoy playing them especially on a rainy or snowy night when the electricity has gone out and you are sitting around the table using a lantern. Board games have come a long way; now they have electronic as well as VCR and DVD versions of the games. Still lots of fun to play and quality family time spent.

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Linda Beal Walker, Class of '66 - These are pieces used in the game of Clue - Colonel did it in the library with candlestick. Never had the game, but have the movie.

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Cecilia (Sis) Watson, Class of '68 - The mystery item are the game pieces to the game Clue.....

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Jim Bannister, Class of '66 - Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Candlestick... The game is CLUE, a great board game for developing deductive and logical reasoning. Not much for developing ethics in the group I usually played with, someone would always peek at the answer cards envelope.

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Polly Gurley Redd, Class of '66 - I am late responding this week because I have been at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC taking a weeklong class in primitive rug hooking. I loved the Cootie pieces and recognize this week’s mystery photo as the Clue weapons. I also liked hearing about others’ Monopoly games. It reminded me of games we played for hours with the children of my parents’ bridge playing friends who lived in Lily Flagg. We would play Risk and Monopoly and Life for hours while the adults played cards. My own adult sons and their families still like to play board games during summer vacations. Thanks for this line of memories, Tommy.

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Subject:Bobby Vee

Linda Beal Walker

Class of '66

I was a Bobby Vee fan, also. Talk about a flashback - I wrote to his fan club and received an autographed picture. I probably still have it. I know I have several of his 45's.

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Subject:Winona Turner

David Turner

Tommy,

This is David Turner, son of Winona and Sonny Turner and I have terrible news about my mom. She past away this past friday morning in bed. She died suddenly from what we beleive to have been a heartattack. This sudden death kept mom from suffering anymore from lung cancer. Dad asked me to write you and let you know about mom. We are laying mom to rest this friday in Maple Hill with a family gathering. Thanks for being my mom's friend,

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Subject:Dianne Ralston Lashbrook '65

Paula Spencer Kephart

Class of '65

Dianne has requested prayer from all her classmates. She is dealing with a quite serious condition with her heart and lungs and wants us all to pray for her recovery. She spent more than a week in intensive care and was out a few days and had to go back to the hospital and be readmitted. She is at home in Ragland, AL and is on oxygen, so she is having quite a time of it. Since She asked, I told her I would request prayer for her again. Please take a moment and remember her in your prayers. Thanks to all of you.

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