We are taking these no bake Chocolate Oatmeal Fudge cookies to our Christmas Eve in Cowpens family Christmas party tonight. Aunt Emily taught me how make these when I was a kid. She also taught me how to eat Hershey's chocolate bars with popcorn, but that is another story for another day!
Sept 11 2021
Robbie (Baggett) Blackstock with her husband Joel
David Baggett
Roxie Baggett (wife of the late Kelsea Baggett)
Leslie Baggett with is wife Pam
Celebrating the life of Winnie Baggett,
Many said she would be so happy to see this family get-together!
Winnifred Marie (Richardson) Baggett of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was
born May 8, 1935, in Mahaska, Kansas, and was reared in Dorchester,
Nebraska, and met her Savior on September 4, 2021, in Houston,
Texas.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Elden and
Daisy May (Simpson) Richardson; her husband, Joel L. Baggett; son,
John D. Baggett; and numerous brothers and sisters.
She leaves
behind to mourn one daughter, Cindy (Tim) Franklin; two sons, Sam
Baggett, and Carl (Sharon) Baggett; grandchildren, Joshua (Janelle)
Franklin, Stephen (Leah) Franklin, Brandon(Rachel)Franklin, Talitha
Cabrera, Kim (Doug) Alexander, Jesse Baggett, Airel (Haley) Baggett,
Josie Baggett, Brandy McDonald, Jeremiah (Catie) Baggett, Joel
(Betty) Baggett; 31 great grandchildren, 5 great-great grandchildren;
brother, William D. “Shorty” Richardson; sisters-in-law, Robbie
(Joel) Blackstock and Roxy Baggett; brothers-in-law, David (Jo Ann)
Baggett, and Leslie (Pam) Baggett; many nieces and nephews, and a
whole host of friends.
While predominately a homemaker, she
was employed at Young’s Cleaners in Pine Bluff, and The Pasadena
Citizen in Pasadena, Texas, where she formed lasting friendships with
her work family. Her hobbies included traveling to visit family and
friends, and collecting owls. She loved large get-togethers with
family and friends, where she was always serving on the clean-up
committee.
She was a faithful member of Victory Baptist
Church.
Visitation will be 10:00 A.M. Saturday, September 11,
2021, at Ralph Robinson & Son Funeral Directors, 807 Cherry
Street Pine Bluff, AR 71601, followed by a celebration of her life at
11:00 A.M., with Rev. Joshua Franklin and Rev. Bryan Torres
officiating. Burial will follow at Good Faith Cemetery.
Memorials
can be made to Open Door Baptist Church in Greensburg, PA, or Victory
Baptist Church in Pine Bluff.
To
send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Winnifred
Marie Baggett (Richardson), please visit our Heartfelt
Sympathies Store.
When her youngest child was old enough to go to school, my mother went to work as the Converse Cotton Mill as a "spare". As a spare hand she had to show up for work each morning just in case they needed her that day, and if not, then she went back home. A friend of the family took her and waited for her just in case he had to take her back home.
What a neat town Cowpens was back in the day! When i was a kid, all the stores closed at 2 pm on Wednesdays, so folks could have time to make it to church that night. Of course, all stores were closed all day on Sunday.
Now after being closed down since the late 1970's, someone has purchased the property and is renovating the old mill into 175 loft apartments. The renovations will cost about $50 million and should be finished in late 2022.
this photo represents five generations
(picture taken at Airel's wedding)
The wedding was in Chattanooga as i had to go to summer school to finish college.
our families traveled from South Carolina (mine) and Arkansas (hers) to be there for the wedding.
So many memories, God has blessed us with 44 years today!
from the Spartanburg Herald-Journal:
After almost 50 years since operations stopped at the former Converse Mill along the Pacolet River, the site is being converted into 173 loft apartments.
The project has been in the works for the last several years but ran into some delays. Developer Britt Weaver said the $50 million project is set to be finished by December 2022.
"The deal was ready to close in 2019 and was HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) approved when the general contractor pulled out. So we had to start the whole thing over again," Weaver said. "It's been challenging and expensive but we got it done."
A chain-link fence is set up around the property and construction trailers are installed at the site.
When developers announced the project in May 2017, it was scheduled to be completed by late 2018 or early 2019. The project, called Converse Mill Lofts, on Highway 29 received state income and historic tax credits.
Hope you had a great day!
He served during the Korean War.
