CANEY LAKE

My paternal grandfather, Cordy White, and my dad's maternal grandfather, Jim
Morgan, were forced to sell their land in Caney Creek to allow the government
to build Caney Lake.

Tommy White, Class of 1968

Beautiful Caney Lake - Photo by Bob Grambling

Lower end of the spillway at Caney Lake. Compliments of LeVerne

Langheld Kidd  - submitted April 10, 2006

The Kidd's two youngest granddaughter's, Shelby and Kayla at the Caney

Lake Spillway.  April 10, 2006

Caney Lake for our graduation (May of 1960) 

from 8th grade "party" at Caney.

The first one is of (from left)  Anne Sanders, Cheryl Miller

and Sylvia Holomon.

Compliments of  Waynette Farrington Sharon

Caney Lake Graduation, May 1960, 8th grade party, Gladdy Lou Zachery and Peggy Whaley.

Compliments of Waynette Farrington Sharon

If you recognize the boys in the picture e-mail MindenMemories@AOL.Com

     Photo by Bob Grambling

     

   Air Force Show photo by Grambling

  

     Photo by Bob Grambling

       
 

        Rescue - Photo By Grambling  Can you name the boys in the picture?

  A FOOTNOTE ON THE BOY SCOUT RESCUE DRILL PICTURES:  THOSE PICTURES WERE TAKEN

  ON THE UPPER LAKE AT CANEY LAKES. 

 FEW PEOPLE VENTURED UP THERE EXCEPT FISHERMEN AND BOY SCOUTS, AND THE FISHERMEN

 USUSALLY   STAYED AWAY WHEN THE BOY SCOUTS WERE IN SESSION.

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   Boy Scout or Emergency Training Drill
      Can anyone names the boys in the photo?

         
 

Front row:  Kathy Lunsford Cole & Eve Baskerville.  Back row: 

 Gladdy Lou Zachary Meton,

Sylvia Holomon Norwood, Cheryl Miller Benit, & Anne Sanders Whittington.

         Compliments of Larry Mays

   Photo taken by Waynette Farrington Sharon

   Gaddy Lou Melton & Eve Baskerville Class of 1964

       Compliments of Larry Mays
 

      Photo taken by Waynette Farrington Sharon



 

 This is empty (Mt) Caney, from when they drained it to rebuild the spillway.

That old road across the middle was Sam Harper's favorite

      fishing spot. He caught many a bass over that road.  Greg Grambling.

 Photo by Robert "Bob" Grambling

This is where the big rock use to be.
 

      Caney Sunset, photo by Robert Grambling

     Photo by John Quade

 

    Florene King, Maida Lee Farmer and CoreneKing

    Notice the boat house in the background with the swimming

    area behind it. This was in the fifties when the

    swimming area was in the middle of the lake.

    Those were some the best years of our lives.

    We just didn't know it

    back then. 

       There's a number of Minden kids here. To name a few, Peggy Cheshire, Judy Smith, Bobby Jean,

       Ginger Rushing, Jo Ann Williams,I'm on the left end middle row having a 'bad hair day'. I see Larry

       Miles, Winston Smith, David *Eddamond(*not spelled correct). Mrs. Perryman. "Cotton" Gleason

       was the camp director/ preacher. He got cut off left side, front row.

        LeVerne Langheld Kidd

        

Here's Phillip Ford and Paul Robinson standing behind him. That's Mary Grace Gibbs

and Jerry Lynn Grigsby

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   ChiChi Hastings hanging on the left side next to her is Joyce Humphries,LeVerne

   Langheld, peeking over her shoulder is her cousin Barbara Lynn Langheld, Bobbie's

  younger sister, Yvonnes Simmons Marcelee Robinson,  Rose Rabb, Mary Grace

 Gibbs and Cassie Taylor. Carolyn Hall must have taken the pictures she was with us

 that day.

           
 

  Jimmy Johnson  and

   Carolyn Hall with their

    head just about the water.

    Yvonne Simmons 

     LeVerne Langheld

   How about those fashionable swim caps?

Submittted by John Quade, Quade Photographers, Main Street, Minden, Louisiana

There is one photo that caught my attention that Mr. Quade shot of me
sitting on our red & white (Texas Made) boat at the main ski route sign
at Caney. We pulled almost all the members of FBC including Dr,
Aldrige, his wife, and girls skiing. That shot was to promote 4th of
July at Caney Lake one year for the Minden paper. That 1957 model boat
is still in the water today here in Texas.

Art Miller