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Oldest living LHS grad honored
On Sept. 23, she celebrated her 100th birthday at the Chickasaw United Methodist Church surrounded by family and friends. Vassar Bowling was born Sept. 30, 1907 in St. Stephens, Alabama to Robert Leroy Bowling and Marion Caroline Shaw. She attended grade school in St. Stephens and then transferred to Leroy High School. There were eight students in her 1927 graduating class. Growing up on a farm in St. Stephens, there were no close neighbors. For fun, her family (which included her two brothers and five sisters) held dances in the long hall of their home. She said she "never was very good at dancing," but she loved to dance. "We'd put cornmeal on the floor of the hall and it would let you slide."
Vassar Bowling married Lucius W. Robinson of Salitpa in Clarke County in 1934, and four years later they moved to Chickasaw. "I taught Sunday School to 3 and 4-year-olds for 20 years, and had 5 and 6-year-olds another eight years," Robinson said. She is a charter member of Chickasaw United Methodist Church.
(Portions of this story taken from Mobile Press Register, Aug. 11, 2006)
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