Luna Walker Clay 100th birthday
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Luna Walker Clay 100th birthday
| charbmoore3 (View posts) | Posted: 27 Jan 2004 12:14PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Walker, Clay, Hand
Meridian Star, Jan. 27, 2004
100th birthday
Luna Walker Clay celebrated her 100th birthday on Jan. 15, 2004, with family and friends at Whispering Pines Personal Care Home in Waynesboro.
She was born in Collinsville to Jessie Emmett and Ida Hand Walker on Jan. 15, 1904, and married to Chester Lee Clay for more than 60 years. Mr. Clay died in October 1987. They had taught and been in school administration in Lauderdale, Jasper, Wayne, and Jones counties for more than 40 years when they retired.
Mrs. Clay has four children, Artis Clay and his wife, Bettye, of Waynesboro, Gloria Mauldin and her husband, Talmadge, of Gulfport, Cynthia Shoemaker and her husband, Dewitt, of Laurel and Carey Clay and his wife, Kay, of Brooklyn; 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
She has enjoyed writing poetry over the years and has had several poems published. She is a Mississippi winner of the Inspirational Letters from Americans on Healthy Aging published in 1997 and a member of First Baptist Church in Collinsville.
100th birthday
Luna Walker Clay celebrated her 100th birthday on Jan. 15, 2004, with family and friends at Whispering Pines Personal Care Home in Waynesboro.
She was born in Collinsville to Jessie Emmett and Ida Hand Walker on Jan. 15, 1904, and married to Chester Lee Clay for more than 60 years. Mr. Clay died in October 1987. They had taught and been in school administration in Lauderdale, Jasper, Wayne, and Jones counties for more than 40 years when they retired.
Mrs. Clay has four children, Artis Clay and his wife, Bettye, of Waynesboro, Gloria Mauldin and her husband, Talmadge, of Gulfport, Cynthia Shoemaker and her husband, Dewitt, of Laurel and Carey Clay and his wife, Kay, of Brooklyn; 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
She has enjoyed writing poetry over the years and has had several poems published. She is a Mississippi winner of the Inspirational Letters from Americans on Healthy Aging published in 1997 and a member of First Baptist Church in Collinsville.