Meridian High Wildcats '58: May 2014

A Tribute and Celebration

We were the class of 1958, members of the Greatest Generation as well as children of the Greatest Generation. Born in 1940, we are also called members of the Traditional Generation.
Our childhood, post World War II, "was the best of times . . . it was the age of wisdom . . . it was the epoch of belief . . .it was the season of Light . . . it was the spring of hope . . . we had everything before us . . .we were all going direct to Heaven . . . ." (A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.) At least, that's the way I felt about it. We were truly blessed.
- Ouida Tomlinson -
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

JUSTINE S. MANN, PH.D., MOTHER OF TEE MANN LONG

A memorial service for Justine S. Mann, Ph.D., is planned in Washington, D.C. She will be interred in Magnolia Cemetery in Meridian, Miss., next to her husband, Col. Isham Wesley Mann Jr. Hodges-Moore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Mann, 98, formerly of Meridian, died peacefully in her sleep on Friday, May 23, 2014, in Statesboro. In 1956, Mrs. Mann was named Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women's Club of Meridian. The selection committee was composed of the Rev. Duncan Hobart, Walker George and Lix Fruge, Mrs. Meyer Davidson and Mrs. Charles Ray Jr.

Following the death of her husband in 1960, Mrs. Mann moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she became the first woman to receive a doctorate degree in political science from the University of Alabama. After teaching several years at Arkansas State University, she took a position as chair of the Department of Political Science at Georgia Southern University, where she remained until her retirement in 1986.

Her second husband, Thompson Hibbs, died in 2008.

Dr. Mann is survived by her daughter, Tarpley M. Long of Washington; her sons, Timothy I Mann of Columbia, Md., and Anthony V. Mann of Statesboro; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and her devoted caregiver, Julia Byrd.

SOURCE: The Meridian Star

O God our Father, Creator of all the living,
we entrust to Your gentle care
all those we love who have gone before us;
and have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again. . . .

Eternal rest, grant unto Justine, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon her.
May the souls of the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.