Milestones

Ida Belle Raby Garrett will celebrate her 85th birthday on April 6.

Her family will honor her special day with a celebration from 2 to 4 p.m. April 7 in South Harriman Baptist Church.

All relatives and friends are invited to attend.

The first of five children, Garrett was born April 6, 1927, and spent the first years of her life in Paint Rock.

She was 9 when her father died, and the family moved to South Harriman, where she attended South Harriman Elementary School and graduated from Harriman High School.

Emerson Reid Bryant was born at 7:51 a.m. March 20 in Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville.

He weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 20 1/2 inches long.

He is the son of James Bryant and Nikki Cook-Bryant of Maryville.

Grandparents are Doug and Debi Cook of Kingston, and Ray and Carolyn Bryant of Maryville.

Emerson also has seven great-grandparents.

Payton Madox “Max” Richardson celebrated his sixth birthday on March 8 with a Spider-Man-themed party.

He is the son of Cliff Richardson and Shauna Richardson.

Grandparents are Jack and Diane Woolum of Kingston, the late Jerry D. Richardson, and Michael and Kay Griffith of North Carolina.

Great-grandparents are the late J.D. and Mabel Waldrop, the late Otis and Bessie Richardson, Anita Mosley and the late James Mosley.

Cole Thomas Tedder celebrated his third birthday on March 3, with a Thomas and Friends-themed party at Harriman Community Center with family and friends.  

He is the son of Marty and Robin Tedder of Harriman.

Grandparents are Ernest and Barbara Tedder and Charles and Becky Lamance, all of Harriman.  

Cole has an 8-year-old brother, Jace Simeon Tedder.