Selma Mains Scaife will be honored with the Posthumous Award Tuesday, March 28, at the Sabine Hall of Fame banquet at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hall in Zwolle. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the program starts at 6:30. This award is given to honor and remember someone with a lifetime of achievement who was a Sabine Parish leader and active in community service.
Selma was born June 9, 1914 to Lee Roy and Mary Jane Mains. She passed away at age 93 on June 6, 2007.
Selma is fondly remembered in Many for being in the local retail business for 28 years. She bought Scaife Unique Shop in 1956 and opened Selma’s Fashion in Wright’s Shopping Center in 1970. Selma’s Fashion Shop continued to operate well into the 2000s at a newer location at 174 San Antonio Ave. with daughter Delores Geoghagan and her husband, Robert Dale, at the helm.
Selma was a very active member of the Eastern Star, Red Hat Society, Women's VFW, Many First Baptist Church and Sunday School Class.
She and husband Don were the proud parents of a daughter, Delores Scaife Geoghagan (husband Robert Dale); a son Donald (wife Beth); and two sons who are now deceased - Doyle 'Popcorn' (wife Evelyn Ann); and Dale (wife Linda); all of Many.
Tickets for the banquet are $50 each and may be purchased at Pete Abington’s office, Nichols in Many, Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce, Robert Gentry’s Office at the radio station and by calling Martha Henderson at 645-9573. Each year the Hall of Fame donates to non-profit charitable groups. This year, donations will be made to H.E.L.P of Sabine, a Christian 501c corporation that provides outdoor opportunities to physically disabled children, adults and combat injured veterans and to SWAG Youth Group at St. Joseph Catholic Church.