Debbie Hinshaw:  

I did not actually graduate from PHS. My family moved to West Point, Miss. in Jan. of my sophomore year. I graduated from West Point High School in May, 1970. However, I keep up with my Parkin friends. I went to the local community college right out of high school and married Kenny Hinshaw in May, 1971. I worked at Miss. State Univ. and was a part-time student while Kenny finished college. We moved to Alabama with his job in Jan. 1974, and had our first daughter, Katye, that Sept. Kenny's job with Gold-Kist, an agricultural company, kept us on the move in Alabama. We had 3 daughters in 3 different locations. Katye in Ft. Payne in Sept. '74; Anne in Selma in '77; and Rebecca in Tuscaloosa in '79. When we moved 20 miles from Tuscaloosa, I saw that as a chance to complete my degree, so I did in Dec. '79 with a degree in Elementary Education. I taught one year in Greensboro, Alabama. At that point we felt we wanted to get back to Mississippi (actually Kenny was transferred to Aliceville, Ala. and we did not want to move there). So on blind faith, we both quit our jobs (yes, I know we had 3 little girls) and moved back to West Point in Feb. 1981. I substituted the rest of that year and Kenny got a job at a local farmers supply store. The following fall, I got a job teaching 8th grade. I was scared to death but ended up loving those older kids. I got my Master's in counseling in Aug. 1990 and immediately got a position as vocational counselor at our local high school vocational center. After 5 years I got the job as high school counselor and was there until 2005 when my baby brother, Tim, got the job as the high school principal, so I had to go to another school. The kindergarten school had an opening and that's where I've been for the last 3 school years. Kenny finally ended up as a lab technician at the cement plant in Artesia and retired from their 2 1/2 years ago so that he could farm full time. We have 140 acres ...Expand for more