Sarah Frances Farris and James Howard Navey
James Howard Navey, right, sits on a pile of rocks with friend William Kimbrell on a trip to Lake Lure, N.C.
Sarah Frances Farris, dressed as a cowgirl, rides a pony.
Above left, Sarah in high school. Written in the lower right-hand corner is her high school nickname, "Termite". At right, Sarah as a college coed.
Sarah, the picture of fashion in a scallop-neck dress and straw hat.
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	Front row left, Sarah Farris and James Navey at the 1947 Freshman-Sophomore Banquet at Gardner-Webb College in Boiling Springs, N.C. Also pictured are Lib Hutchins, Bob Griggs, Buddy Shephard, Bettie Brickhouse, Paul Gordon, Lou Davis, Archie Chapman and Hazel Walker. Sarah and James met at Gardner-Webb, then a conservative Baptist college. Once they were called before the dean for sitting too close to one another on a bench. Gardner-Webb is now a university, and you can visit its site at http://www.gardner-webb.edu/ (Top)
Above, James Navey in the U.S. Navy hydraulics school in Chicago during World War II. He is standing in the center on the wing at left. James stayed stateside during the war, first at boot camp in Bainbridge, Md.; then on to Jacksonville and Yellow Water, Fla.; then to Chicago; and from there to California, where he was stationed as a third-class petty officer in Alameda, Santa Rosa, Modesto, San Francisco, Oakland and Moffatt Field near Palo Alto, where he was chief of a five-man crew. (Top)
Sarah in two glamour shots in Sunshine — at left on the front porch and at right next to the smokehouse. (Top)
Sarah's engagement picture, hand-tinted at the photo studio. Sarah and James were married on June 13, 1948. (Top)
James and Sarah in 1999 at the wedding of their grandson, Matt Brooks, in Shelby, N.C. (Top)