Hazard, KY/Perry County - 1940 First Creek Basketball Team

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Remembering Goodloe Napier
Member of the 1940 First Creek Team

1940 First Creek High School Basketball team. Goodloe Napier Jr., second from the right in the center row. Photo courtesy of Goodloe Napier III. Top row (l to r) Morris Fraley, Paul Dunaway, unknown, Roy Hensley, Forrest Baker, Gordon Shelton. Middle row (l to r) unknown, Moon Mullins, unknown, unknown, Goodloe Napier, Coach Adrian Richie. Front row (l to r) Rufus H. Doc Ritchie, Steve Pappas, Warren G. Standifer, Preenie Elam, unknown, John D. Napier, and Doyle Jenkins. Info provided by R.H. Ritchie, Oak Ridge, Tennessee & Sharon Steele.

Goodloe Napier Jr., a former Perry Countian, died recently. He grew up on Napier Hollow at First Creek and played basketball for First Creek High School in the 1940s. Napier later worked for Blue Diamond Coal Company and became a federal mine inspector. His office was located in Airport Gardens. After he retired, Goodloe moved to Lexington.

"Thank You for the tribute to my father. It is hard to believe that he is gone especially with me at only 26 years old. Goodloe was very proud of where he was from and held high regard for all those friends that he made along the way in the Hazard area. I must say though that the man was never really able to retire as he was still raising me in his later stages of life." Goodloe Napier III, Lexington, KY gzn3@aol.com