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Searcy has a new centenarian! Corrine Hart is 100 years old!!

By Barbara S. Duncan

Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

February 02, 2009 03:58 AM

She's had her picture in several of my blogs! To see the blogs click on the links but the pictures are below.

First Security Searcy AR Jim's Dining CAr

I just noticed something! Does she have on the same dress in both of these photos. She's on the right in each one.

Her daughter contributes to my blog regularly. The daughter's name is Anita Hart Fuller. I call her Searcy's golden girl because she had such a sparkling childhood. I've put her in my blogs a time or two also.

Girls with dolls

On January 28, 2009 Corinne Horne Harrison Hart attained the age of 100! Corinne is known by everyone who has been in Searcy for a long time. She's known for her memory and her wit. One of her favorite stories is below. It's about get-togethers a long time ago.

Everyone came to town in their wagons and long-bed trucks, their wives and kids. There was a stage full of holes and a pump organ which I played. There were lanterns hanging in the trees and it was just a grand party.

The party went on late, too. I remember one year, all the little kids had been filed away to sleep in their families' wagons and trucks with the grown-ups still down at the platform singing their hearts out. Some of us older kids went out and started rearranging the kids. You know, putting the Smith kids into the Jones wagon and like that.

Nobody noticed till they got home LATE that night that they had the wrong young-ens. It made for a long night with people heading all over that part of the county trying to track their youngsters down.

Lots of friends gathered to wish Corrine a Happy Birthday. She was, as she always has been, a charming hostess who entertained everyone with her cheery disposition and old time stories! She is shown below in her youth and then on her birthday with her daughter Anita. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORRINE!!!!!

Corrine Hart Corrine Hart and daughter Anita

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Anita Fuller

Thank you Barbara - and Don, for featuring my mother on today's blog. She would be honored and thrilled. For whatever reason, she always said she hoped she could "make it to l00 yrs." and I'm so glad she did. Having said that, I'm sure we'll be featuring her next Jan. 28th, 2010. When she spoke to the White County Historical Society at age 92 - or was it 95? anyway, she spoke to a SRO crowd, the first in it's history. I never noticed about the dress but I think you're right. My guess is that - in those days - we didn't go around taking pictures like we do today. I think she bought a roll of film, took her camera to work, took the bank pictures then had lunch with her friend, Oneida, at Jim's Dining Car. By the way, she is the one responsible for the name of the bank: The Security Bank. It was originally The People's Bank when she worked there as a teller. They had a little name the bank contest and she won, with the name Security Bank.

Anita Fuller

Feb 02, 2009 09:38 AM

Anonymous

Ludean

Anita, I didn't know your mom, but sounds like she is one of Searcy's cherished treasures.

Feb 02, 2009 10:43 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Zane, thanks!!

Debi, I understand she was loads of fun! And still is.

Don, you are such a wonderful contributor to my blog. Great pictures!! Was that Corrine in the last picture?

James, thanks for reading and looking at our centenarian.

Anita, thanks for the additional information. My guess is that it was not the same day but the same dress. Folks then had favorite dresses or outfits just as we do now. The two friends were not the same were they? It was fun to put your mother on my blog!!

Ludean, I'm surprised that you didn't know Corrine. Everyone else did. BUT, neither did I until I met her this year. Thanks for comment.

Feb 02, 2009 11:18 AM

Steven L. Smith

King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA

Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Barbara,

Some days I feel that old. Does that make me one of them C words too.

Feb 02, 2009 03:47 PM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Steven, that word was not in my vocabulary either. Don Thompson, my mentor for this blog, wrote most of it! He's a gem!

Feb 02, 2009 11:44 PM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Barbara, I know you like house pics so here's another of Corinne from Anita's collection. Anita, Where was this pic taken?

Yes that is Corinne with my uncle Doyle. My uncle began cooking as a Civil Service employee in World War II and cooked for servicemen in Azores, Guadalcanal and Italy...sometimes from tents in field kitchens. When the war ended, he kept on cooking but this time it was on seagoing vessels, including a Coast Guard fishing boat. Before starting at Harding, he served as a jailer for 8 years.

Feb 03, 2009 01:29 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Don, we should have featured this picture. It is so lovely and lady-like. Look at the snow on the ground! It must be Arch Street where Anita spent her charmed childhood. I'll have to drive by and see if any of the old houses are still there.

Feb 03, 2009 01:34 AM

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA

Put 40 years of experience to work for you

What a lovely tribute. And it's nice to know what 100 looks like. I hope to get there someday myself. Corrine looks like one sharp cookie -- and who did her hair?

Feb 03, 2009 03:32 AM

Mike Saunders

Retired - Athens, GA

Barbara - and a happy belated birthday to Corinne, what a terrific story, thanks for sharing.

Feb 03, 2009 05:34 AM

Anonymous

Anita Fuller

Because you asked: the picture is made on the Toby Woodson's driveway (that would be the orange brick house, Barbara)....those two houses in the background are no longer there. The one closest behind mother was a duplex or two apartments, with upstairs. The one on the end of the block was once the home of a man who is a doctor in Searcy: Dr. William Doyle White (Billy Doyle to us when growing up)....the Morris house - not well seen in the picture has been rehabbed and is still there, almost as it was in my day. I would love to look inside it sometime, ahem.

Anita Fuller

Notice the butterfly pin on mother's fur piece coat. Very stylish in those good old days. Probably a collector's item now.

Feb 03, 2009 07:43 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Elizabeth, 100 doesn't sound so old anymore! She's a jewel and I don't know who did her hair. The Mayor of Searcy went by and had her picture taken with her for the newspaper. It was a surprise visit, I believe.

Mike, thanks.

Anita, do you still have the pin? I can't tell which house is the rehabbed one. Get me an address to drive by. You're old house is back on the market for $156000 I believe it is. You could buy it and come back to your little home town!!!

Feb 03, 2009 12:36 PM

Patricia Kennedy

RLAH@properties - Washington, DC

Home in the Capital

Barbara, what a neat lady! And I love your photos of her.

I have a friend in her 80's and found an old photo of her in New York with another on of our neighbors. They were in their late teens and they looked like they should be Rockettes!

Feb 03, 2009 12:54 PM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Patricia, she is a neat lady and has led a charmed life and taught her daughter how to also be a charmer!

Feb 03, 2009 01:30 PM

Mary PAUL, ABR, CRS,GRI, e-PRO,

RE/MAX Advantage Realtors, Searcy, AR - Searcy, AR

Barbara,

She certainly has aged well, does not look like she is 100! Great post and great lady!

Feb 04, 2009 01:45 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Thanks, Mary.

Feb 04, 2009 08:25 AM

Kim Southern- "Sold" with Southern Hospitality

Century 21 In the Mountains - Ellijay, GA

Greetings from the North Georgia Mountains!

What a lovely story about a lovely lady...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CORINNE!!

BTW...Zane Coffin recommended I subscribe to your blog...Good call, Zane!

Feb 08, 2009 12:55 PM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Kim Southern, thanks for subscribing to my blog. I reciprocated! Zane is a hoot!! I've fallen for him. And thank you for commenting on this blog.

Feb 08, 2009 01:19 PM

Kim Southern- "Sold" with Southern Hospitality

Century 21 In the Mountains - Ellijay, GA

Greetings from the North Georgia Mountains!

Thanks!! I love the Rain!!

Feb 08, 2009 01:25 PM

Anonymous

Mary Fikes

Barbara,

Aunt Corrine was my great aunt and as a child she would send me typed letters as a pen pal for me. I loved her dearly and have fond memories of her. Thank you for putting this out here. It's been many years since I have seen her and I have sent a link to my mother (Sandra) who will enjoy this tremendously. May she rest now.

Thank you again,

Mary Fikes

Atlanta

Jun 21, 2009 07:04 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Mary, thanks for this comment. I think I'll try to do a memorial blog for her and perhaps put the same pictures back on. What do you think?

Jun 21, 2009 07:54 AM

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