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Colleen Mildred Pittman, age 95, of Newland, N.C., went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, May 2, 2021 at The Life Care Center in Banner Elk. A native of Avery County, she was a daughter of the late Wesley and Cora Franklin Johnson. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Earl Pittman, and siblings, Ivalee Garland, Gene Johnson, Regina Forbes, Gaither Johnson, Cecil Johnson, Ann Reynolds and Nettie Lou Hyder. Colleen loved working at the Shady Lawn Restaurant, where she enjoyed talking with and serving her customers. She never met a stranger and was always cheerful and full of life. People would drive for miles just to eat her magnificent cooking. Colleen also enjoyed traveling and was still driving at the young age of 93. ....
Column: Airplanes took off in a hurry in Hall County Johnny Vardeman Hall County went “flying mad” in the early 1900s after the Wright Brothers’ successful flying machine launch in 1903. People weren’t mad at flying, they were mad for it. Eyes pointed skyward and necks craned whenever an “aeroplane,” as airplanes were called at that time, were spotted over Gainesville or began to set down in cow pastures or the fairgrounds off Shallowford Road. As planes started to be manufactured and proliferate to some extent across the country, exhibitions were staged, mostly in the larger cities. Southern Railway offered train excursions to Atlanta when an aeroplane was scheduled to put on a show. ....