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Lou Campbell? Carlene Shackelford, Hazard, KY Could mystery person #32 be Ed Dawahare? Gail Osborne, Lexington, KY Another
good one!!! I have visited old Hazard and the businesses and tried
to figure this one out. I can't do it this way so I will have to
keep on keeping on. I remember several who coached back then and
Moscoe comes to mind but he didn't own a business; Don McGuire's dad who
was a traveling salesman; the Strongs; on and on but nothing hits me as
who it could be. I love it. I will keep watching for someone
to hit on it real fast. Ida Lee Hansel, Spartanburg, SC |
Congratulations
to Mary Jo Gregory Edwards of Carmel, Indiana for identifying Mystery
Person #32 as Joe Duncan, an amazing task since so little clues were
given. How did she do it? "I thought and thought and
Hazard Drug is the only business I could come up with - where a Hazard
girl was married to the owner," she told WSGS.com. Now the
rest of the story ... Joe Duncan was born at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington
on September 17, 1927. He attended public schools in a small town near
Somerset. He attended the 5th grade at St. Joe's school in Bardstown,
KY. Joe served in the U.S. Army at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Indiana for two years before
World War 11 ended. He attended Union College in Barbourville
for two years. Then he went to the University of Kentucky in
Lexington. He also attended Pharmacy School in Louisville.
After graduating from UK in 1952, Joe came to Hazard where he purchased
Hazard Drug and operated the business until 1989. He coached a Little League baseball team
of 12 year olds on the old Collins Field where the Hazard Pavilion now
stands. He married Elizabeth Snyder of Hazard and they have two
sons. Joe was a Rotarian for almost 25 years. Fellow members included
Dr. Rice Kirby, Bill Morton, Ward Tayloe, Harold Barker, and Stanley
Slone. Joe's retirement was
short lived after 37 years at Hazard Drug. He stayed busy working
in Isom, Leatherwood, Whitesburg , Hazard, Hindman, Martin,
Neon , Jenkins, and several other places in Eastern KY. There were
many professional people that came from his family including lawyers,
pharmacists, a teacher, a doctor and his brother served on the Court
of Appeals along with Judge Bert T. Combs. Today - Joe is
still going strong at the age of 80 and participates in most of our Mystery
Person features. When his wife, Elizabeth, recently started
asking Joe questions about his life, he knew something was up.
""I'm not going to be on the web, am I," he asked.
Elizabeth confessed he would be the next person in the spotlight but
wondered how he had figured it out. "From the questions you
are asking me, just like when we are trying to figure out the Mystery
Person," he said. 