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For others who couldn’t
find a job, mostly girls, the days were
spent giving their parents an extra hand
with chores around the house. This
usually consisted of washing laundry by
hand and hanging it on the line,
starching and ironing clothes, preparing
meals and of course, washing dishes.
In the early sixties a
big Oak tree in the front yard of
Lorene’s Cafe provided a cool, shady
spot for the community teenage boys,
Sonny Watts, Cleo Craig, Iville
Thompson, Billy Thompson, Charles
Thompson, Thurmon and Floyd Smith,
Junior Martin, Jessie Simmons, Joe
Arthur Teague her son Charles Lee and
the others who gathered there in the
afternoons to shoot the breeze. Some
days Thurman Smith (Monk) brought the
guitar and the French Harp and the
singing would commence. ........sounded
like Muddy Waters and B.B. King in
person.....
Lorene Brown grew up in
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Her Mom and Dad, Mammie Lee and
Nathan Brown sent her and her two brothers and four
sisters to Beckville Schools. Life was good to them. She
recalls, there were no problems that couldn’t be easily
solved. Nobody ever saw a hungry day......if you were
hungry you went to the smokehouse for fresh pork or beef
.... or to the kitchen or to the garden to get freshly
canned or freshly grown vegetables.
Lorene moved to Rusk in the early
forties. Rusk was a lot like Beckville. The community
was peaceful and safe. You could stand in one place and
see for miles around. She met her husband Richard
Williams through his mother Carrie Williams. She said,
"He was in the army and I wrote letters to him for her."
When he came home we got to know each other and we were
married.
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