Lincoln County High School Class of 1945, Lincolnton, Georgia

The number of young women who graduated from high school in 1945 was much higher than the number of young men. The men had either left school early to work to to join the armed forces.

First Row (l-r) Valeria Davis, Elaine Martin Smitz, Colleen Cox Dunaway, Martha Edmunds Ashmore, Margie Partridge Smalley, Evelyn Colvin Florence, Sadie Saggus Pearson, Sybil Edmunds Popham, Cora Kirkland Jones, Eleanor Groves Bradley.
Second Row (l-r) Dorothy Ivey Dukes, Lilly Green Wells, Bobbie Bentley Smith, Bessie Ruth Wright Bentley, Phyllis Clary Smith, Doris Wilkinson Goolsby, Frances Florence Brown, Mary Sprouse Clary, Madge Bunch Wideman, Elva Maddox Cordell, Orina Talbert Cooper.
Third Row (l-r) Ernest Smith, Clifford Stevenson, John Spratlin, Harry Partridge, Fortson Scott, Johnny Parton, Kenneth Goolsby, Stanley Martin.