MAYWOOD NEWS – MAY 25, 2025
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We are still getting rain and the weather is cool, and we have enjoyed a number of graduations in the area. Retired Judge Rachel Bringer Shepherd was a speaker for the Highland Baccalaurate on Wednesday evening. It was a nice event, and each Senior received a gift of an appropriate book from her. Congratulations to these young people.
Eunice Kaden Fisher of Perry, Mo passed away on Thursday and her memorial service was Friday at the Christian Church in Perry. Eunice was the first cousin of my late husband, Marvin. She and Milburn were married on the same day as Marvin and I and the family went to theirs early afternoon and ours early evening. This was not planned, however, my father’s unexpected death on my original date affected our date. Eunice was a lady, active in her church and farm activities. We extend sympathy to her family.
The community lost another lovely lady this week. Joann Wiegand went to be with her Lord, and she was talented and raised a family of boys. She and her husband, the late Marvin Wiegand were active in many community activities. We extend our condolences to this family.
There have been many graduations as I have mentioned. Maywood High School had two printed yearbooks, and they were 1921 and 1922. My father had his baccalaureate service for a reference. This was at the South Union Baptist Church and the high school orchestra played all the music by the old classic composers and it was a formal service with poetry. The graduation service was in the high school that was new and another formal service. There were many Maywood businesses advertised in the yearbooks. Each year has a different curriculum, and this is the senior year, and you could take 4 courses offered. They were solid Geometry, Trigonometry, English Literature, Economics, Sociology, Music, Physics, and Ciero. The school had boys and girls’ basketball, and baseball teams and basketball was on a dirt floor, however if you graduated you were accepted in a university based on the study program the school had. The depression was a huge blow to the school; the town of Maywood and many things were gone. The high school was one and most of the businesses. A large number of Maywood people with names you would recognize attended the high school like J.C.and Martha Bell Wiseman, Nolen Leach, Earl Cason and others. Maywood students then attended the school through eighth grade and later were transferred into LaGrange.
Have a safe memorial day and be thankful for the day it represents.
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”
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