Mildred Adams will celebrate her 102nd birthday January 12

January 06, 2021

BY MARY LOU BUSH

APPALACHIA NEWS • 565-1386

Appalachia Lions Club Meetings Cancelled

The Appalachia Lions Club meetings on the second and fourth Thursday of each month will not meet until the Order #72 by Governor Northam’s executive order is no longer in effect.

The Lions Club members will resume their meetings when the Covid issue is no longer a threat to people in a crowd of more than 10 people.

Quiet New Year’s Day

New Year’s Day was a quiet day for our family. As a tradition the menu for New Year’s Day was not an enticing meal for our grandchildren and their parents. The younger generations! “Weird”.

The traditional meal was always prepared by Mrs. Bush on New Year’s Day and she would call us on the phone to come up to Inman and share the meal which consisted of corn bread, hog jowl, black eyed peas, cabbage. She fried the cabbage and it was good!

We were always at her house on New Year’s Day to take down her Christmas decorations and put them away for her. She has been gone 34 years and now I try to carry on her tradition on the first day of the New Year.

My menu was corn bread, black eyed peas and fried cabbage chopped very fine and no hog jaw but we did have honey baked ham left over from Christmas and it was from hog meat so I figured it was the same as hog jowl, less fat and grease.

I don’t expect the tradition to hold true. Cabbage was for money, black eyed peas for good luck and the hog meat for health.

We kept the traditional meal and if a male came to your house on New Year’s Day it was counted as a good luck year for that household. Well, on January 1at 7 pm my nephew, Mark Van Winkle, came to our house for a visit. He lives in LaFollette, TN and he has not been to our house in 20 years, since the death of my sister, Leona, his mom. Coincidence? Yes, all these sayings I remember and when I follow these traditions it reminds me of a young girl being taught by our mothers and grandmothers.

Wednesday, Jan. 6 was old Christmas. I did not wash clothes or sweep floors. I worked hard on Tuesday to make sure January 6th was a holiday.

Birthday Wishes

January 12 Mildred Adams will celebrate her 102nd birthday! She resides at The Laurels in Norton.

Last year she received an abundance of birthday wishes and cards sent to her at her current address, 5635 BSG Drive, Norton, VA 24273

No visitors or family members are allowed in the facility due to the covid virus threat. Let’s let Mildred know we have not forgotten her. The cards will be read to her and placed on display. This is a milestone in the life of this great lady.

Condolences

We extend condolences to the family of Billy Dan Roberts. He passed away at the age of 65 on January 1, 2021. Billy was preceded in death by his parents, Hazel H. and John Roberts and brother David Roberts.

Funeral services were conducted January 5th at the Roy A. Green Funeral Home Chapel officiated by Jerry Naylor. Burial followed at the Powell Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Powell Valley.

Celebrates Birthdays

Two former AHS classmates and myself attended classes in the early 1960’s in Appalachia. Freda Lunsford Rajfansee and Frank Bowman celebrated their birthdays on January 4th. Happy birthday to two very nice friends.

Our first grandson, Tony Grosse celebrated his 28th birthday on Jan. 4th. Tony is a youth pastor at Liberty Church in Marietta, GA.

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