GRADUATING SENIOR CLASS (Commencement Program)
William "Bill" Anderson......decd
Paul Avery...................Austin TX
Ruby Bagwell.................Odessa TX, m. Bill Watson (RHS-1944)
Robert Lee Barker............decd
Betty Beard..................decd, m. name White
Gayle D. Blacklock...........decd, m. Jane Hardy (RHS-1949)
J.T. Blackwell...............decd
Louise Bond..................decd, m. name Christian
Adelphia Dane Bowen, Jr......decd
Kenneth Brown................decd, m. Salata Tucker (RHS-1944)
Betty Jean Cook Browning.....decd, m. name Alford
Rufus Browning...............decd
Rosemary Bruce...............decd, m. Callie W. Smith
Jo Bullock...................decd, m. name Earle
Peggy J. Bundick.............decd, m. name Hodges
Ethel Butcher................decd, m. Lonnie Coones (RHS-1943)
Carolyn Clarke...............decd, m. name Bostick
Betty Clem...................decd, m. name Young
James Croom..................decd
Noel Dabbs...................decd, m. Mary Bond Christian (RHS-1944)
Waunette Davis...............Oak Ridge TN, m. name Fowler
Calla Mae Deaton.............decd, m. Robert E. Mahaff
Bill F. Doss.................decd
Haden Edward Eastland........decd
Alvin B. English.............decd
Max A. Ervin.................decd, m. Dorothy McCollum
Frances Eubank...............decd, m. name Shaeffer
Gene H. Falk.................decd, m. Claudia Peel (decd-2010)
Ella Joy Ferris..............decd, m. Harold Brewer (RHS-1943)
Benjamin Franklin Fonville...Roanoke TX
Elsie Marie Gafner...........Victoria TX, m. J.G. Adams
Morris George................decd, m. Nell Scroggins
Barbara M. Getts.............decd
Byron Gordon.................decd, m. Marjorie Pearsall (RHS-1944)
Wanda Graves.................decd, m. name Murphy
Marie Green..................decd, m. name Dumouchel
Doris Rae Groves.............decd, m. name Pipkin
Cletis Hames.................Ranger TX, m. Jasper Williamson (decd)
Melvin Harbin................decd, m. Bobbye Wymer (RHS-1946)
Dorothy Hardy................decd, m. Jack Earl Creel
Jewel Harris.................decd, m. Ralph Swaim (decd)
Bob Hickey...................decd
Vivan E. Hise................decd, m. Ida Gregory (RHS-1944)
Robert F. Hood...............decd, m. Betty McGowan (RHS-1944)
Clyde Ivy....................decd
Quitman Echlon Ivy...........decd
Gerald Jennings..............decd
Jewel Maxine Jones...........decd
Albin Larson.................decd, m. Barbara Hendley
Alvin Glen Lyon..............Whitney TX
Gene Arnold Lyon.............decd
Dorris McCrum................decd, m. name Clark
Mary McHenry.................decd, m. Joe W. Robertson
Bill Mac Meroney.............Beaumont TX
Jean Mitchell................decd, m. name Faulkenberry
Martha Ann Mitchell..........decd, m. name Hynes
William Moore................Las Gotos CA, Class Salutatorian
Marilyn Murray...............decd, m. name Bell
Mary Ohr.....................decd, m. name Campbell
Ben Earl Patterson...........decd
Marjorie Pearsall............decd, m. Byron Gordon (RHS-1944)
Doris Perlstein..............decd, m. Calvin Lipkin (decd)
George M. Perry..............decd
Billie Faye Pounds...........decd, m. name Beskow
Betty Robinson...............decd, m. name Richards
James Arnold Robinson........decd
Katy Lanelle Rose............decd, m. name Brummett
Clara Russell................decd, m. name Arterburn
Patsy Seymour................decd, m. name Morrow
Evelyn Shelton...............Ranger TX, m. name Clements
Juanita Smith................NA
Martha Musick Stickles.......decd, m. name Melton
Salata Tucker................Ranger TX, m. Ken Brown (RHS-1944)
Billy Jean Turner............decd, m. Frank F. Johnson (RHS-1943)
Leola Turner.................Longmont CO, m. Palmer Ray Kelley (RHS-1942)
Amelia Walker................decd
Bobby Woods..................decd, listed in RHS-1943
Dorothy Wymer................decd, m. Oliver Beck
OTHER CLASSMATES:
Louise Adkins................decd, m. name Thomas
Azette J. Dakour.............Dallas TX
Laverne Daniel...............decd, m. name Wallace
Ruth dell Dodd...............decd, m. name Kelley
Melvin Drake.................decd
Alice Rae Davenport..........decd
Clifford Floyd...............decd
Edward U. Freeman............decd, m. Geneva Young (RHS-1944)
Steve Gideon.................decd
Lewis Green..................De Leon TX
Ida Gregory..................decd, m. Vivan Hise (RHS-1944),
m. Howard B. Thompson after Vivan died
Mary Frances Hamrick.........decd, m. name Rhoads
Carl "Bud" Hardin............decd
Margaret Hargrave............decd, m. Daron Moore
Frances Harris...............decd, m. name Beall
Edna Hartsfield..............decd, m. name Bridges
Marie Holder.................Fort Worth TX, m. name Lacy
Raymond Howard...............decd
Lola Howell..................decd, m.name Witherspoon
Margaret Jacoby..............decd, m. name Campbell
Carlon Bruce Jay.............Wichita Falls TX
J. Leland Jones..............decd
Azzatte Joseph...............NA
Stacy L. Kim.................decd
Robert K. Lawson.............decd
Calvin Long..................decd
Almer Loper..................decd
Betty Jean McGowan...........Waco TX, m. Robert Hood (RHS-1944)
A.P. Melton..................decd
George Wesley Moore, Jr......decd
Kathryn Moore................decd, m. name Eggers
Thomas Jefferson Morrow......decd
Wm. Thomas Perrin............decd
Betty Jean Pugh..............decd, m. name Nantz
John Richardson, Jr..........decd
Maxine Sharp.................decd, m. name Norris
H. Luther Shelton............decd, m. Mildred Cole
David A. Smith...............decd
Patsy Smith..................decd, m. Albert King (decd)
Eunice Squyres...............decd, m. name Cole
Zelda Stephens...............decd, m. name Johnson
Arnold Stovall...............decd
Jane Thompson................Water Valley TX, m. name Stubblefield
Jack E. Townzen..............decd
Lonnie Ussery................decd
Tommy Vasquez................decd
Lowe Wallace.................decd
Billie Carl Warden...........decd
Bill Watson..................Odessa TX, m. Ruby Bagwell (RHS-1944)
Geneva Young.................decd, m. Ed Freeman (RHS-1944)
GRADUATION: May 23, 1944 (Rec Building)
VALEDICTORIAN: Amelia Walker
SALUTATORIAN: Bill Moore
CLASS OFFICERS:
President.............Noel Leo Dabbs
Vice-President........Alvin English, Jr.
Secretary/Treasurer...Amelia Walker
Reporter..............Albin F. Larson
Sponsors:..Billie Collier & Mamie Ruth Hamrick
FACULTY: Grover Boswell (Superintendent), Aubrey Warford
(Principal), Lee Roy Baskin Martha Brashier, Billie Dean
Collier, Lillian Eastland, Helen Hagaman, Mamie Ruth Hamrick,
Katherine Stafford Heatly, Edna Fay Hogan, Eudora Noel
Holloway, Gladys Hunter, Don T. Martin, Victoria May,
Imogene Minton, Anna McEver, Lillie Robinson, Arthur L.
Shelton, R.B. Thomas Jr., Dana Kerbow Townsend, & Mary
Virginia Williams.
NOTE: It has been confirmed that no yearbook was ever
published for this class due to World War II.
RHS-1944 Juniors in 1943 yearbook - NA
RHS-1944 Sophomores in 1942 yearbook - NA
RHS-1944 Freshmen in 1941 yearbook (Group pics)
Louise Adkins, Billy Anderson, Ruby Bagwell, Leona Bailey,
Dale Baker, Ollie Ballard, Robert Lee Barker, Mary Barnes,
Betty Ruth Beard, Gayle Blacklock, J.T. Blackwell, Mary
Louise Bond, Wilber Boone, James Brown, Rosemary Bruce,
Linnie Bryant, Ethel K. Butcher, Dorothy Bynum, J.D.
Christian, Carolyn Clarke, Betty Jean Cook, Marie Crawford,
James Croom, Noel Dabbs, Alice Rae Davenport, Calla Mae
Deaton, Ruby Dell Dodd, Reba Dorman, Billy Doss, Hershel
Drake, Melvin Earl Drake, Hayden Eastland, Max A. Ervin,
Frances Ann Eubank, Gene Falk, Ella Joy Ferris, Clifford
Floyd, Edward Freeman, Morris George, Barbara Getts, Steve
Gideon, Byron Gordon, Lewis Green, Marie Green, Bonnie
Hagar, Mary Frances Hamrick, Melvin Harbin, Margaret Lou
Hargrave, Frances Harris, Geraldine Hatton, Eugene Henson,
Larue Henson, Vivan Hise, Marie Holder, Raymond Howard,
Lola Howell, Elsie Hummel, Margaret Jacoby, Maxine Jacoby,
Mack James, David Jameson, Carlon Jay, Harold Jewell,
Jewell Maxine Jones, Leland Jones, Azzatte Joseph, Howard
King, Jack King, Freddie Larson, Robert Lawson, Norma Jean
Lewallen, Calvin Long, Bill Lyman, Gene Lyon, Billie Mack
Meroney, Bill Moore, Kathryn Moore, Martha Lee Musick, Mary
Catherine McHenry, Dorris McCrum, Betty Jean McGowan,
Marjory McKinley, Georgie Mae Nail, Martha Jo Oyler, Pauline
Pace, Ben Earl Patterson, Roy Patterson, Marjorie Pearsall,
Thomas Perrin, Jack Phillips, Dollie Pruet, Betty Jean Pugh,
Billie Fayae Punds, Pete Renteria, John Junior Richardson,
Betty Robinson, Carl Robinson, James Robinson, James Rush,
Patsy Seymour, Jack Shelton, Allene Stafford, Zelda Faye
Stephen, Arnold Stovall, Wesley Tollett, Jack Townzen, Billie
Turner, Leola Turner, Stuart Neyland Utley, Amelia Louise
Walker, Breland Wallace, Lowe Wallace, Donald Ward, Mary
Frances Ward, Billie Carl Warden, Calvin Warren, Natalie
Watson, Erma Dell Williams, Linden Williams, Estelle Wright,
Geneva Young.
RHS Senior Class of 1944 Enlarge photo
Picture courtesy of Ethel Butcher Coones.
Grade school
Senior pictures
Reunions
RHS Class of 1944
