Happenings
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Employees’ Relative Remembers
Experiences During The “War”
Many people have heard their
grandparents tell stories about life
during the war. But when Ida Evans,
the grandmother of two Fieldcrest
employees, told war stories, she was
not referring to World War I. She
talked about experiences of her life
as a young girl during a war most of
us can only learn about in history
books—the Civil War.
Mrs. Evans died recently at the
age of 124. Sixteen children and
nearly 200 grandchildren and great
grandchildren were lucky enough to
hear her talk about her life and
various experiences including some
of the following which she related to
a newspaper reporter when she was
117 years old.
“We were squatters-just moved on
some land and put up a cabin on it,”
she said in an article in the Washing
ton Evening Star in 1970. “My father
and brothers went off to war. One
day they came and took them off.
They didn’t go on their own. I
remember hearing people talk about
what a bad man Mr. Lincoln was.
“We didn’t know the war was over
KARASTAN SOFTBALL TEAM MEMBERS (left-right, kneeling) George
Curry, Maurice Holley, Eddie Barker, Danny Wilson, Jeff Wray and Henry
Holley (in front); (left-right, standing) Phillip Odell, John Mize, Jr., Bill
Pettigrew, Mark Hines, Butch Teague and Tommy Amburn.
Karastan Team Plays
First Softball Season
until my brothers came home. One
was crippled. . .my father didn’t
come at all. They said he was kiled
but we didn’t know where.
Players on the softball team sponsored by the Karastan Rug Mill look back
on their first season with some memories of victory and some of defeat but
all appreciate the opportunity to have participated in the summer sports
league.
One of the most disappointing moments may have come when they play
ed Gann’s Restaurant team in an area tournament game and lost by a nar
row margin of one run in the seventh inning after leading by several runs
throughout the game.
The team, a member of the Stoneville Softball League, included approxi
mately a dozen Fieldcrest employees. They are: Tommy Amburn-Karastan,
Douglas Barker-Karastan; Mark Hines-Nonwoven; Maurice HoKey-Karastan,
John Mize, Jr.-Nonwoven; Bill Pettigrew-Karastan; Johnny Powell-Non-
woven; Butch Teague-Karastan; and Danny Wilson-Karastan.
Other team members included Eddie Barker, Ralph Hill, Phillip Odell, Jeff
Wray and Henry Holley (bat boy).
The Karastan team will wrap up its first season of play this week.
“When the Yankee soldiers came
they took all the food in our cabin-
bear meat mostly and corn meal, I
think.”
Born on New Year’s Day, 1853, Ida
Packs married for the first time a
few years after the war when she
was 14. She had three husbands
during her lifetime and “they were
all good men — ever one of them —
but I reckon I liked the last one
(Willy Evans) as good as any.”
History became reality as she told
about the first time she had seen
airplanes and automobiles and the
electric light. She was about 25 when
she had her first pair of “store-
boughten” shoes, the kind that,
buttoned up the side.
MRS. IDA EVANS at age
tained vivid memories of iiif
ing the Civii War. She aisO
countered a iot of America’s
gressive “firsts” during hei
span inciuding the first airP
the first automobiie and a
fangied gadget—the eiectric I
Two of her 200 grandchiidra"
great-grandchiidren are Field*
employees.
“I’ll tell you. I’ve had plenty of
exercise in my life and maybe that’s
why the Lord let me live so long—
‘cause I’ve worked so hard,” she
said about her longevity.
Card Of
Thanks
Mrs. Evans’ granddaughter,
Linda Estes, is a secretary in the In
dustrial Engineering Department at
the Blanket Greige Mill. One grand
son, James David Biggs, works in
the Shop at the Sheet Finishing Mill.
The Family of Carrie
Adams wishes to extend our
and appreciation for aA
kindness, cards, flowers, W
prayers of our friends and neie
during our recent bereavein®*
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KATHY WILSON
RONALD BROOKS
Two Receive Granfs-ln~Aid
Two additional Grants-In-Aid
have been awarded to employees’
children by the Fieldcrest
Foundation. The new recipients are
Kathy Wilson arid Ronald Brooks.
Kathy is the daughter of Mrs.
Kathleen Wilson, an employee at the
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Blanket Finishing Mill, ^
attend Danville Community
Ronald is the son of Mr®
Brooks, a retiree of the Ph®
Plant. He plans to to study *!
at Chattahoochee Valley
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