The Mansfield High School senior class of 1952 included (front row) Howard Ratcliff, Rosie Lee Trout, Virginia Wilson, Kathryn Turner, Peggy Braswell, Jarell Justice, Mary Sue Maples, Doris Durfree and Margie Schott; (second row) Rex Harris, Carole Ann Howard, Marjorie Storie, Shirley Spears, Robert Wilhelm, Bert Edmonson, Jessie Wayne Howard and Joe Morris; (third row) teacher Janet Brockett, Charles Tanner, Dudley Cone, Don Luttrell, Kay Fowler, William Cromer, Morris Ray, Gay Fowler, Ellis Wayne Bewley and teacher Ben Barber. Bob Ray Bratton (not shown).
To learn more about Mansfield history, check out the Mansfield Historical Museum, 102 N. Main St., open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more info, call 817-473-4250, email museum@mansfieldtexas.gov or go to mansfieldhistory.org.
Photo courtesy of the Mansfield Historical Society.
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