Fauquier Flashbacks - 1962, 1972 and 1987

50 YEARS AGO - Feb. 1, 1962

At a reception following the Boy Scout Sunday service at Warrenton Methodist Church, congratulations were extended by the Rev. Millard Rewis to James Ellis, John Toler, Robert Anderson and James Miller. The boys received God and Country awards.

Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Sanders are receiving congratulation on the birth of their second son Richard Alexander, who was born Jan. 16 at Fauquier Hospital.

The recent opening of the Middleburg Club Inc. could be the beginning of another chapter in the story of Middleburg, famed for horses, fortunes and the First Family. The club house dates to the early 1700s with the main part added about 1812. Club membership is open to both gentlemen and ladies.

40 YEARS AGO - Feb. 3, 1972

Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Norris Fletcher III of Warrenton announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Catherine Gordon Fletcher to First Lieutenant Leonard Stephen Foster USMC, son of Mrs. Leonard W. Foster of Beckley, W.Va. and the late Mr. Foster.

Alice Coyner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Coyner of Fleetwood Farm, Delaplane, has returned to the United States after a year’s travel and study in Europe as part of Hollins College Abroad program.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Oare and Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Reynolds Sr. were hosts at a hunt breakfast Jan. 26 when the Warrenton Hunt met at the Oares’ home on Lees Ridge Road.

25 YEARS AGO - Feb. 5, 1987

About $350,000 worth of improvements -– which include a parking lane and sidewalks -– are planned for Waterloo Street. Curbing and a gutter system will also be installed. The half-mile construction would start at U.S. 29/211 and end at Chestnut Street. Thirty-eight of the 59 landowners have signed easements.

Fauquier National Bank has begun a $400,000 renovation and expansion of its View Tree branch on Broadview Avenue in Warrenton. The renovation by P.W. Campbell is the first expansion since the branch opened in 1962.

— ANN C. POWER