An Exercise of Curiousity

Some while back, I posted a story at Ancestry.com, my account.  I guess it wasn't really a story.  I had come across a "memorial book" from my grandmother's death.

You know, one of those that the funeral home provides for those who have either attended the "viewing" (usually at the funeral home),  or those individuals who have attended the funeral, (at the funeral home or the church).

Alice Settles giving me my first birthday party in the back of her house on the Bayou!

This particular memorial was on the occasion of my maternal grandmother's death.  Alice Settles Givens 

was born 4th of February, 1906, somewhere near Crestview, Florida (Walton County at that time).  

She died 13 January 1956, way too young, too early!  It was an automobile accident.  She passed away at the Pensacola Baptist Hospital.  She is buried at the Early Cemetery, off Hwy. 20, Niceville, Florida.  The Funeral Home was McLaughlin Funeral Home, (funeral home directors: L.E. McLaughlin, L.E. McLaughlin, Jr., Fred McLaughlin, and Maurice McLaughlin).  

The memorial booklet was light blue with an embossed cover and a picture of the "Last Supper" on the front page.  

It occurred to me to record those who signed the pages of the memorial book.  "What's in a Name"?  Each of those signatures represent a life, a person, a friend.  So here is that record.  Reading through the names is kind of like reading the history of Okaloosa County, the history of Niceville, Florida, the family histories of those who lived and loved in those locations. 

So, here is the record of names of those who visited the funeral home and/or the funeral.  Do you recognize any of these names?  If so, please contact me and tell me something about that person.

Keep in mind that some of the people who signed this registry may not have known the deceased (my grandmother).  They may have been friends of the family.

Capt. and Mrs. Forrest A. Dalton, Jr.
Mrs. Thomas Scott
Velma Kilpatrick
Tom and Louise Settles
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mason
Miss Lillie Hodge
Mrs. George W. Wilkinson
Gloria Ann Wilkinson
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Blackwell
Benjamin F. Whitfield
Mr. and Mrs. Buz Sawyer (Aunt Hazel)
J. W. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Reddick
Jack Brewer
Mrs. J.W. Clark
W. R. Reddick
Willie V. Reddick
W. H. Holmes
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley C. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Courtney
Mrs. Stephen H. Jones
Lavonia Brown
King Kilpatrick (ex-husband)
Mr. and Mrs. John Landingham
Mrs. Ralph R. Holleman
Mrs. Doris Padgett
Mrs. Mildred Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Helms
Mrs. Pearl Mason
Mrs. Georgia Skufea?
Mrs. Bessie Mason
Mrs Vick Nowling
Mrs. Eva Evans
Maggie Kilpatrick
Lizzie Cain
Earnestine Goodwin
Howard and Vida Nowling
Curtis Padgett
Mr. and Mrs. Quince Holmes
Mr. and Mrs._____ E. Hattaway
Mrs. Clara Spence
Mrs. J. M. Kent
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Meigs
Mrs. Jim Jeter
Mrs. James Parish, Sr.
Mrs. James Parish, Jr.
Mrs. James E. Brown
Mr. G. W. Henderson
Mrs. Reba Boone
Mrs. Burnell Johnson
Miss Estelle Brown
Mrs. Linton Peters
Linton Peters
Mrs. Jack Brewer
T/Sgt. and Mrs. Gus Domorad
Charlie and Amanda Johnson
Edgar Peters
Jose' A. Diaz (Aunt Hazel's Husband?)