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More than 100 people attended the annual Rockdale Homecoming Association’s homecoming celebration Sunday in the Patterson Civic Center. 

RHS Class of ’70 members are (front row, L-R) Susan Abel Voskamp, Mary Lou Rawlings, George Wall, Linda Tate Hensley, Glenda Wiley, Ellen Luckey and Sally Curtis; (back row, L-R) Eldon Ball (their elementary school principal), Ronald Holamon, Ritchie Lester, Robert Flores, Kathy Romine Lowdermilk, Regina Hammett Baker, Dub Fatheree, Beverly Hirt Samuelson, Greg Biehle, Donnie Knott and Sharon Lawton Betak.

RHS Class of ’71 members are (front row, L-R) Debbie Shook McKiney, Janie Backhaus Lightsey, Gail Ging Earman, Suzanne Gilleland Clark, Josie Garza, Sandi Reed Nitcholas and Dale Drake Throckmorton; (back row, L-R) Olivia Matl Albright, David Blacklock, Lynette Bayless Waltisperger, Lynda Freeman, Debbie Alford Kaderka and Mike Zapata.

Award winners at the homecoming were Easton Jackson, almost 3, the youngest; Charisse Golden of Kansas City, MO, his great-aunt who traveled the farthest; and World War II veteran Charles Trotter, the oldest at 94.

The Jones family, owners of Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home, were honored. Family members are (L-R) Gracile Lillard, Sharon Wilkinson, Barbara Manbeck, Charisse Golden and Wallace Jones.

Rockdale Homecoming Association officers and directors are (front row, L-R) Wenda Dyer, Janice King; (back row, L-R) Dale Throckmorton, Barbara Black, Gerry Offield, Pat Watson, Debby Currey and Barbara Gross.