Cedric JonesInducted 2019 High school football in Waycross dates back to 1910. The forward pass has been in and out of vogue between 1910 and 2019. But suffice it to say there have been some accomplished pass catchers to come out of Waycross-Ware. And they all made...
McKinley WilliamsInducted 2019 When you play for a 0-10 football program, you get very little respect. Such was the plight of McKinley Williams, one of the best high school football players in Georgia in the late 1960s. As a ninth-grader at Ware County High in 1966,...
Katherine Meeks LoveInducted 2019 When Kathy Meeks was a junior at Waycross High, she and her basketball teammates lost in the 1977 state finals by a heartbreaking two points to Cherokee County. A year later, though, they kicked down the door to win the first state...
Kelly Durham BrownInducted 2019 Kelly Durham Brown, a four-year starter and leader in two varsity sports at Ware County High School in the 1980s, went onto play college basketball and win accolades at two different schools. A high-scoring point guard, she sparked the...
Kennon TaylorInducted 2019 Kennsel Bennett — a 6-foot-8 basketball center — was made for the low post. In high school and in college he was a scoring and rebounding machine. A true power player, he crashed the boards with abandon and was hard to stop as a scoring...
Fosteen BanksBeacon of Light Award 2018 Over a period of decades, Fosteen Banks has given of her time, talents, efforts and resources to the community, in particular the school children. For many years, when it was time to ring the supper bell (school club dinners,...
Hollisfield BetheaBeacon of Light Award 2018 For most of the last half of the 20th century, the McDonald Street Rattlers were the Chicago Bears (you might say) of the Waycross-Ware County Recreation Department’s Midget League. And the reason they were so fierce and...
