Members of the Enriched Sunday School class at Blackshear First Baptist Church recently launched their Christmas season with a fellowship dinner at Blackshear’s popular J Leonard’s Restaurant. Classmember Vickie Vincent and her husband Blair “unwrapped” the joy of the season for their friends planning a holiday meal of special taste and the gladness. The historic home, known as the Brantley Mansion on Main Street, offered a traditional Christmas setting in decorations with many lighted trees and abundance garlands. The class honored teacher Linda Dire, who was accompanied by her husband, Harold, with a gift in appreciation of her “outstanding Bible teaching.” Adding to the fun were door prizes handed out buy the Vincents. Members pictured wer (back row lr) Glenda and A. J. Griffis, dinner directors Vickie and Blair Vincent, John Mooney, Ann and Ray Knowlton, Gennell and Bobby Zorn, Darrell Thomas, Margaret and Bill Cselle, Class Teacher Linda and Harold Dire, Carl Spires, Nickie Carter and Dave Whitted. Front row: Sue Thomas, the Rev. Joe Thigpen, and Shirley Thigpen, Emma Dean Knowlton, Jean Bowen, Margaret Lee, Martha Spires, Nell and Joe Clark, Lynn Barber, Carol Whitted, and Jan Martin.
