Brother George Eddie to Patricia Flanders.
Flea-flicker gave U-M a dramatic win in '64 - Chuck MIGYANKA
One of Michigan State's finest players married Dr. John P. Flander's daughter Janice.
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Brother George Eddie to Patricia Flanders. |
If you are one of the transplants from Claiborne County to the Monroe, Michigan area or other places near there please let me know and I will put your story here. Our first post is from Gary Keck whose emails you can locate below.
As I have always suspected
the people who enjoy my site are from other places than Claiborne
County. During the short time I had my site off line I got
several e-mail from people who had roots in Claiborne County or the
surrounding area but none from the native Claiborne Countian.
Case in point is Mr. Gary Keck from Monroe, Michigan. Gary is a
son of Estil Keck, who would be a familiar name to many Barren Creek
and Little Sycamore Creek residences of Claiborne County. Gary
was a good friend with Randy Bailey, who as most of you know was a
strong support of the Claiborne County Cemetery Restoration project
that centered around the Confederate Monument in the Irish Memorial
Cemetery.
Gary begins by introducing himself " I have a negative of a Clyde Payne, from probably back in tha 1940's. Will send it on if you think you are related. I was given negatives, pictures, etc. when our local photographer was cleaning out their business.
My dad was born in Tazewell back in 1902, grew up in Leatherwood Hollow ( er ) His name was Estil Keck and his father was Robert F. Keck."
Randy and I communicated during the project as I had a
very old picture of the monument as it was in it's original state with
cannon ball and shell atop. Gary Keck has picture information
that he is sending me regarding my late brother, George Eddie Payne's
father-in-law, Dr. John P. Flanders. Dr. Flanders was an
outstanding doctor in Monroe and has a wing of the hospital there
dedicated in his memory. So I think this alone is cause enough
for me to continue my site for a little longer. I hope to have
those pictures up for some of my distant family in Arizona and Texas to
see in the very near future. Below is one of the many e-mail we
have been exchanging. I know Monroe, Michigan and Tazewell,
Tennessee have many residences that know one another. Sadly to say one was Jimmy Turner whose passing I just learned of. Jimmy and L.E. were the singing stars of old CCHS during the 1960's. One particular song I remember everyone wanted to hear was"Last Date". And yet another I just learned from Gary was our famous Kenny Chesney whose step mother passed away just May 6, 2006. I am not sure if Mrs. Chesney lived in Monroe at the time of her death or not but Gary sent me Yvonne Chesney obituary.
Now what do you know. I was driving to work this morning before 7 am and saw a fellow broken down on the road. He sorta looked familiar so I stopped and picked him up. I found out he had worked at the same plant in Morristown that I did but was laid off a couple months ago. We are slowly closing this plant down as far as I can tell. This guy looked so familiar I continued questioning him and found out his last name was Roberts and his first name Vic and he lived in Tazewell. I asked if he knew Butch and Bill Roberts and low and behold he said he was Butch. I went to school with Bill for 12 years. He had lived in Monroe for 18 yrs and knew you. I worked here for 2 yrs and didn't know who he was but I work in the office and he worked in the metal plant 3. He is going to technical school and is studying drafting.
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d. October 1980 73, wife, Viva children: Patricia (FLANDERS) PAYNE Gerald FLANDERS Janis (FLANDERS) MIGYANKA |
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