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Site Created:
 28 June 2001

Updated:
10 Feb 2022

 

 

 

1939 Minco Band

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We need some help on naming the members of the 1939 Minco band.  LaVerne Hines has already identified many, but not all are applied here yet.  Send IDs to mwoodworth@cox.net

Note:  Some are 5th graders!!

Front (1st) Row, L to R:  (1), Odell McClure (drum major)  (2) W. L. Denton, (3) Buck Wall, (4) Buddy Halley, (5) ______, (6) Mary Ellen McComas (bass drum), (7) Ramona Rice (drum), (8) Bobby Harley (drum), (9), Davaleen Black (clarinet), (10) Ben Johnson, (11) Katheryn Wall, (12)  Ferroll Brown

Second Row:  (1) Joann Markle,  (2) _____, (3) Billy Bob Rice, (4) John Allen, (5) Jack Slover, (6) Anne Lou Elliott, (7) Wanda Scott, (8) Imogene Christner, (9) Betty Jo Chilton, (10) Milton Shedick (director)

Third Row:   (1) Neil Thomas,  (2) Raymond Wegner, (3) Wayne Halley, (4) Marylin Woodworth (saxaphone)  (5) Margaret Jean Unruh, (6) Edna Jean Wegner, (7) _____, (8) Rose Mary Wegener  (cornet)

Fourth Row:  (1) Billy Sounders,  (2) Ruth Branscom, (3) _____, (4) Wreathel Funderburk, (5) Lorene Rice, (6) Zelda Harley, (7) _____, (8) Bernice Coley, (9) ______

Fifth (back) Row:  (1) Buddy Fronneberger,  (2) Carol Childs, (3) _____ (flag), (4) Barty Chappell, (5) Paul Mooney, (6) Charles Eden (tuba), (7) ____, (8) Jr. Cherry, (9) Griffen Fuller, (10) Tom Cherry, (11) Fred Rice (holding banner), (12), James McConnell (baritone), Tom Cherry

 

Per newspaper, the following band members are in the picture but are not yet identied:

Tilford Ferguson
Frank Rice
Ines Craig
LeRoy Merchant
Lucille Hughes
Opal Chadwick
Imogene Dare
Mary Ann Pendleton
Thomas Wall
Virginia Johnson