| "Bobby" Joe Harper - The Son of "Marvin" H. Harper, Sr. and "Minnie" Belle Brooks Harper (Harper-Page 17) |
| The photos above are of "Bessie" Juanita Henry Harper and "Bobby" Joe Harper. "Bobby" Joe Harper is the son of "Marvin" H. Harper, Sr. and "Minnie" Belle Brooks Harper. He was born on July 26, 1927 in Pemiscot County, Steele, Missouri. "Bobby" Joe Harper lived at home until the age of 18 when he joined the air force on January 17, 1946 at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas. While in the air force "Bobby" Joe Harper served in Germany in the occupational army. Once discharged from the service "Bobby" Joe Harper returned home to Pemiscot County, Steele, Missouri and finished high school at South Pemiscot High School. After graduating from high school "Bobby" Joe Harper started going to college at Trevecca Nazarene College located in Nashville, Tennessee to study divinity. It was while he was in college in Nashville, Tennessee that "Bobby" Joe Harper met "Bessie" Juanita Henry, born April 29, 1936, while attending church at Inglewood Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, Tennessee. After approximately a two year courtship "Bobby" Joe Harper married "Bessie" Juanita Henry, daughter of "Melvin" Lee Henry (1917 - 1994) and Willie "Mai" Woodard Henry (1921 - 2001), on July 26, 1953 at Inglewood Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, Tennessee. Bobby and Bessie Harper still attend Inglewood Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, Tennessee. After getting married Bobby and Bessie Harper set up their home in Nashville, Tennessee where they still live. Bobby and Bessie Harper had two children: 1) Melvin "LeRoy" Harper (Named after his grandfather Melvin Lee Henry and his uncle Roy Winfield Harper, hence Melvin Lee and Roy Harper combined to be Melvin LeRoy Harper.) who was born on October 23, 1958 at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and 2) Richard (Ricky) Allen Harper (Named after his uncle Larry Allen Henry) who was born on March 2, 1961 at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. The oldest son of "Bobby" Joe Harper and "Bessie" Juaita Henry, Melvin "LeRoy" Harper married "Barbara" Ellen Mc Kay, born March 8, 1956, on July 15, 1989, the daughter of Clifford "Frank" Mc Kay and Dawnlyn (Dawn) Faye Loeshe. The wedding of LeRoy and Barbara Harper was held at Two Rivers Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee. On July 30, 1991 LeRoy and Barbara Harper had a daughter, "Chelsea" Nicole Harper who was born at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| The picture above is of "Bobby" Joe Harper riding a cow named "Cherry" as a child. |
| The picture above is the high school graduation picture of "Bobby" Joe Harper taken in 1949. |
| The picture above is of "Bobby" Joe Harper in the air force in 1947. |
| The picture above is of the 1943 - 1944 South Pemiscot High School Basketball Team. On the back row the player standing to the far right next to the basketball coach is "Bobby" Joe Harper. |
| The photo above was taken on the wedding day of "Bobby" Joe Harper and "Bessie" Juanita Henry on July 26, 1953 at Inglewood Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, Tennessee. From left to right the people in the picture are: "Melvin" Lee Henry, father of "Bessie" Juanita Henry, Willie "Mai" Woodard Henry, mother of "Bessie" Juanita Henry, "Bessie" Juanita Henry, and "Bobby" Joe Harper. |
| The people in the picture above from left to right are: "Bobby" Joe Harper, "Barbara" Ellen Mc Kay Harper, Melvin "LeRoy" Harper, and "Bessie" Juanita Henry Harper. The photo was taken on the day of the wedding of LeRoy and Barbara Harper, July 15, 1989, at Two Rivers Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| The picture above is of "Barbara" Ellen Mc Kay and Melvin "LeRoy" Harper on their wedding day on July 15, 1989 at Two Rivers Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| The picture above is of "Chelsea" Nicole Harper, the daughter of Melvin "LeRoy" Harper and "Barbara" Ellen Mc Kay Harper. The picture was taken in 2006 at the Junior ROTC dance held at Siegel High School. |
| The picture above is of Richard (Ricky) Allen Harper, the son of Bobby Joe Harper and Bessie Juanita Henry Harper. The picture was taken in 1988 while Ricky Harper was in the Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity and attending Tennessee Technological University in Putnam County, Cookeville, Tennessee. |
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