Social News: Dinner with L. W. Fortenberry, 1950 MS

Using websites such as Newspapers.com, we researchers can find news of our families. Weddings & Obituaries can often be found. But smaller occasions were also reported in small local newspapers. This brief social clipping describes a Sunday family dinner for the Fortenberry family in November 1950.

Dinner Guests. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Fortenberry of Progress enjoyed having as their dinner guests Sunday Mrs. Ina Alford, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fortenberry and children, Billy, Alice and Ray, Mr. and Mrs. John Hall and sons, John and Don, Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Fortenberry, Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Fortenberry and son, Wilburn.

 

My notes on the dinner guests:

 

Mr. and Mrs. L. W. = Lucius Wilburn Fortenberry (c 1888 MS – 1964 MS) & wife Rosa

 

Ray Luther Fortenberry, son of Lucius & Rosa, (1909 MS – 1989) & wife, Zelda Marie Alford (1915 LA – 2005 MS) & children Billy Joe, Alice Darrel and Ray Luther

 

Mrs. Ina Alford = Ina Lucille Brown Alford (1890 – 1922), mother of Zelda Marie Alford

 

Thurman Fortenberry, son of Lucius & Rosa & wife 

 

Wilburn Fortenberry, son of Lucius & Rosa & wife & son, Wilburn

 

John Hall & wife (daughter of Lucius & Rosa) & and sons, John and Don

 

Source: Dinner Guests (McComb, MS: Enterprise Journal, 8 Nov 1950) 8; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed January 2021.