What: Rison-Dallas Association Annual Reunions
When: The first Saturday in August each year
Where: Jackson Way Baptist Church, 1001 Andrew Jackson Way, Huntsville, AL.
Time: 10:00 a.m. - arrival and fellowship
11:45 a.m. - covered dish luncheon
1:00 p.m. - program
Please refer questions to risondallas@comcast.net.
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Click here for coverage of the 2009 Rison-Dallas Association 37th Annual Reunion that was held on August 1st.
Click here for coverage of the 2008 Rison-Dallas Association 36th Annual Reunion that was held on August 2nd.
Click here for coverage of the 2007 Rison-Dallas Association 35th Annual Reunion that was held on August 4th.
Click here for coverage of the 2006 Rison-Dallas Association 34th Annual Reunion that was held on August 5th.
Click here for coverage of the 2005 Rison-Dallas Association 33rd Annual Reunion that was held on August 6th.
Click here for coverage of the 2004 Rison-Dallas Association 32nd Annual Reunion that was held on August 7th.
1973 Mr. H. E. Myhand, Woodrow Chisam & C.V. Fain speakers
1974 Mr. C.V. Fain, speaker
1975 Mrs. Paul J. Lawler
1976 Mrs. Louise Perry
1977 Miss Ruth Esslinger
1978 The Class of 1928, 50th reunion
1979 The Class of 1949 celebrated their 30th reunion and honored Mr. Hub Myhand
1980 Mr. O.E. "Coach" Richardson
1981 The Class of 1951 celebrated their 30th reunion and honored Mrs. Velma Hanvey
1982 Mrs. Evelyn Hodges
1983 The Class of 1943 - elected to dedicate the program to patriotism and honor veterans.
1984 Miss Ruby Smithey
1985 Classes 1935, 1940, and 1945 jointly celebrated their own 50th, 45th and 40th reunions, as well as Mr. Fain's 90th birthday
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999 The Class of 1949 celebrated their 50th reunion and honored Mattie Pearl Primm Curry
2000
2001 The Class of 1951 celebrated their 50th reunion and honored Zollie (Buddy) Curry
(Please CLICK HERE to read our presentation to Buddy)
2002 The Rison-Dallas Association sponsored the reunion and honored Helen Acuff
2003 The Junior class of 1951 celebrated their 50th reunion and honored William (Bill) Rice
2004 The Class of 1944 celebrated their 60th reunion and honored
100 year-old Mrs. Lizzie Payne Ricketts
2005 The Class of 1945 sponsored the reunion and honored The Championship Baseball Team of 1948-1949
2006 The Class of 1946 sponsored the reunion and honored the 1940 Football Team
2007 The Class of 1947 sponsored the reunion and honored Eleanor Simmons Kerns, Teacher
2008 The Class of 1948 sponsored the reunion and honored our Veterans
2009 The Class of 1949 sponsored the reunion and honored our Veterans
2010 The Rison-Dallas Association sponsored the reunion and honored our veterans.
2011 The 9th Grade Class of 1957 sponsored the reunion and honored both our veterans and teacher,
Mrs. Hazel Turney Ward
Prior to the 2000 reunion, records were not kept of our deceased members. We are certain that these lists are not complete but are the best that we, collectively, could do. There are those on these lists who may not have attended Rison or lived in Dallas Village, but had a connection to either or both, i.e., a relative or who took an active interest in our reunions.
If you know of names that should be added to this list, please email us at: risondallas@comcast.net.
2000 (12)
Marguerite Gunn Buford
Burton Case
Louise Curry Cobb
Geneva Marks Crutcher
Lowell B. (Bud) Franklin
Methra Carroll Gates
Mazola Thomas Harden
G. Reese Pattern
J. D. Pettie
Beulah Corum Ramsey
Lavella Troglen
William Worley
2001 (21)
Elton Adcock
Fred Adcock
Nelson Allen
Buford Carroll
Harry Christian
J. T. Corder
Bob Englebert
William Etheridge
Don Fields
Lois Jones Fields
Neal Greenway
David Headrick
Estelle Cope Henley
Mrs. Hayden Hodges
Buster Hollaway
Walter Johnson
Alene McCorkle
Melvin Mitchell
Martha Majors Teague
Mildred (Midge) Worley Reese
Lucy Short Sandberg
2002 (16)
Marvin Benson
Q. T. Cates
Pud Chisam
Dude Curry
Bessie Hunt Dunham
Mona King Frontain
Mrs. Alma E. Goodson
Margaret Taft Hudson
Lois T. Hunt
Donald Hymer
Fay Johnson
Virgil Lacy
Slick McGinnis
Mildred Hunt Newby
Frank Swaim
Diana Allen Weston
2003 (6)
Flora Parker Ashworth
Helen Chisam
Mattie Pearl Primm Curry
Percy Gwathney
Robert (Luke) Tucker
Mildred Cooper Winston
2004 (21)
Buford Casey
Bobby Christian
Kenneth R. (Bobby) Edmison
Louise Fain (Teacher)
Jessie Jean Fisher
Lourene Patton Fleming
Catherine (Kathleen Spray) Owens Cantrell Harbin
Clarice Certain Schrimsher Hite
Edna Crowl Holman
Werden Hurd
Jerry Hymer
Perry Luna
Katherine Reese Murphree
Edwin Osborne
Carlos Patterson
Lillian T. Pullen (Teacher)
Esther Powell Saxon
Juanita Swindell Troupe
Martha Ann Bennett Vaughn
Linda Christian Young
2005 (20)
Gene Adcock
Dorothea Boggs Austin
Buel Case
Ruby Nelson Crabbe
Virginia Smotherman Ford
Fainer Jett Frazier
Bera Gray
Jewel Payne Gray
Mildred R. Gunn
Polly Brazelton Hightower
Landon Hill
Elsie Agnes Stolz Hoekenschnieder
Ophelene McGinnis Hunter
Ruth Curry Moore
Bobby Morrison
Robert Mullins
Evelyn Lackey Nunley
Pearline Satterfield
Betty Corder Stewart
Marjorie Rousseau Whitworth
2006 (19)
Felix "Buck" Branch
John W. Burgess, Jr.
Gerald Dalton "Moose" Campbell
Eugene Floyd Dunham
William C. "Pete" Finley
J. Dalton "Mouse" Gaines
Gracie Mitchell Hill
Melvin L. "Pete" Hunt
Faye Johnson
Ozell Johnson Johnson
Mattie Atkinson McGinness
Ronald Wayne "Ron" Schrimsher
William Don Stewart
Tommy Walker
Clarence Wallace
Celestine Day Webb
Lillian Samples Wheat
Hoyt David Wilkes
Regina Blount Wood
2007 (29)
Irma Thompson Anderson
James Harvel Carroll
Annie Dunham Corder
Cleo Baucom Davis
Parker Denton
Minnie Lee Brown Elders
Wade Elldege
Katherine Green Fanning
Joe W. Finley
Charles Gaut, Jr.
Birdie Helen Fitch Goodman
James Hatfield
Lee Roy Hoekenschnieder
Harley Rand Hope
James Thomas Kennemer
Johnnie Cooper Lewis
James Alvin McBride
Marilyn Gates McCulley
Charles McNeal
Mattie Anita Gray Murphree
Charles Milton Roden
Vernie Earlene Roden
Clifton Saxon
Luther "L.C." Staggs
Keith Stoffle (Lucy Short Sandberg's grandson)
Lucy Maureen Walker Tucker
Elizabeth Wilson Wilkinson
Edith Blair Windham
William "Bill" M. Wood
2008 (35)
Basil Banks, Sr.
Jewel Casey Benson
Carl Beshears
Aubrie Lee “Al” Bowling
Jesse “J.R.” Brady
Gladys Lorene Branch
Clara Mae Brazelton Brooks
Bobby Edwin Burke
Floy Short Carrigan
Claude Samuel “Sam” Chisam
Frances Burkett Cordum
Ruth Atnip Falkenberry
Gracie Hatfield Fine
K.C. Finley
Connie Rigsby Ford
Sara Jo Dunham Gastler
Milton Leon Gentry
Miriam Baker Dunn Gowan
Wilbia Lee Starr Howard
Evelyn Parker London (Marguerite’s daughter)
Terry Luna
Annetta Barnes Martinson
James David McCaleb
Edith Mullins*
Virginia (Ginny) Brazelton Penhall
Albert Eugene Potter, Jr.
Dolly Rhodes
Lynda "Lynn" Russell**
Ethel McElroy Adcock Sanders
Frank Short
Katherine Swaim Staggs
Travis Stevens (Joyce Owens’ husband)
Lela Mae Frasier Thompson
Gilbert Henry Duncan Wallace
Robert E. “Bob” Wilkinson
*Once she and her husband, Bob, bought Fifth Street Café, they renamed it, Mullins Drive-In.
**Leo Drake's friend who helped with the reunions.
2009 (22)
Marie Schrimsher Arnett
Gussie Berry (Billy’s mother)
Myrtice Steger Brown
Dr. Charles Chambers
Lena R. Denton (Parker’s wife)
William “Billy” Ealy
William C. “Bill” Edgemon
Lawrence “Buddy” Ivey
Elizabeth Primm Johnson
Perry Luna
Billy Magness
Tommy G. McCulley
Joe H. Medlen
Nancy Melton (Carl’s wife)
Aliene Cagle Pell
Bobby Philyaw
Lila Edith Ratliff (Brady’s mother)
Leron Allen Schrimsher
Elizabeth Vinson Walker (Earl’s wife)
Roshelle Barnes Walker
Cecilia Worley (Eugene’s widow)
Clara Mae Jones Worley
2010 (34)
Denver Anderson
Lou Emma Blount, Thomas' wife
Marion "Buddy" Bryant, husband of Joyce Magness
Reuben Chapman
Deborah Ann Dowell Chisholm, Fay's daughter
Avis Knowles Chisam , Woodrow "Pud's" wife, Sam's mother
Billy Joe Cooley, a long-time attendee to our reunions
Jerry Crabtree, Nina Ann's husband
Mamie L. Driver, Betty's mother
Imogene Hillis Echols
Walter Benjamin "Benny" Fiske II, Mary Ann & Tommy's brother
Clarence "Butch" Fitch, Betty's brother
Helen Tucker Smith Fuchtman, Coach Luke Tucker's sister
Julian T. "J.T." Gore, attended our reunions
Larry Gray, Lucy Moore's husband
Grady Harbin, a Lincoln Village friend
Dorothy Tidwell Lacy, Class of 1950 (Charlotte's sister)
Jason Lee (Darryl's son)
Rachel Meeler, Mary, Annette, Linda & Leslie's mother
Dewey C. Moss, Bessie Certain's husband
Billy Owens, Charlotte's husband, Class of 1948
Charlotte Tidwell Owens, Billy's wife, Class of 1948
Estelle Swindell Pinion, Pont's wife
James "Jim" Potter, Betty Ray's husband
James Michael "Mike" Potter, Jim & Betty Ray's son
Drexel Carroll Potts, J.D.'s wife
Thomas "Tommy" Potts
Michael Prosser Sr., Billy Bowden's cousin
Joan Elizabeth Reese Riley, Class of 1938
Lizzie Payne Ricketts, age 105, Evelyn, Ruby & Opal's mother
Herman "Pap", "Buddy" Schrimsher, Leron's husband, Class of 1947
Margot Willson Spratt Swanson, teacher at Rison Jr. High
Winona Brown Turner, Sonny's wife
Sarah Elaine Webster, teacher at Rison & Lee
2011 (29)
Helen Louise Acuff, Class of 1944
Marvin D. Brewer, Class of 1950
Katherine Burke
Elaine Gault Cobb
Joy Fanning Daniel, Comon's wife, Class of 1934
Charlie Cornelison
Michael "Mickey" Falkenberry
Raymond Earl "Toots" Falkenberry, Sr., Ruth's husband, Class of 1942
Thurman Oliver "Thumper" Frasier. Betty's husband, Class of 1947
Dorothy "Dot" Gates Maples, Class of 1950
Marie Crowson Hughes
Herman Hunt, Class of 1938
Joyce Counts Hunt
Lessie Cantrell Hunt, Herman's wife
Anne Royal Kieras
Joe Kieras
Sue Acuff Koster
Jacki Lee, Wayne's wife
Johnny F. Logan, Mary Jo Gray-Patterson's husband
Robert Odell Luna, Sr.
Marguerite Fanning Martin, Joy's sister
Bessie Certain May
Forester May
Marion "Buddy" McCormick
Loretta Chisholm Patterson, Carlos' wife, Class of 1947
Lois Johnson Perkins, Class of 1945
Faye Speck Reese, Arthur's wife, Class of 1951
Bobbie Phillips Thompson
Dr. Wm. Earl Walker, Class of 1939
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