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By JAMES A. PERRY Lifestyle staff writer .;
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up the Logtown road so we could come in and visit our race Rillma Fountain said she wouldn’t leave	dead,” says Fountain. “And they’ve kept that promise. The <|
Logtown, no matter what. She had lived all	town’s gone, but the cemetery is still there and people	j
of her 78 years there and she wasn’t going to are still being brought back there to be buried. That’s spend a day out of it, she said.	where all of us want to go — in the end.”	’
And she didn’t. She died the day before a Stennis told the crowd that the deadline for leaving j moving	van was to take her away from Logtown forever.	home, hearth and memories behind was November,'1964.	-
She now	rests in the town cemetery, near the places where “He told us that we’d be paid dollar for dollar, an equal „	t
she grew up and married and raised a family.	'	amount; to replace the home that had to be torn down,”?;<*
Eldora Summers was with Fountain the night she died. ' rememoers Fountain. “Now, that’s hard to do. How can you	J
She says her friend’s heart wap broken.	be fair in a situation like that? It was very difficult, but we	F
' Miss Rillma came to our grocery store every morning	didn’t argue. Some of the people moved to Picayune, which ^
to get something for dinner., She was very sentimental	is on the other side of the test site,-and'some went to
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