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structure across from the Rappahannock National Bank. The S & R Turnpike, Estes said, ran from Sperryville to the Rappahannock River at Waterloo, Virginia.
In those days, Merrill’s garage was in the building that since became the Inn at Little Washington. Public dances and basketball games were both held upstairs at Merrill’s.
“They had a few postgraduate basketball teams, I guess you could say,” Estes recalled.
“The Rappahannock Rockets, for one, they would go around to other towns and play there.” Amateur baseball was big too, he remembered.
“I think it was the Sperryville Blues but I can’t prove that- they used to refer to themselves as the Sperryville Blues. Gr—damn I’m a Sperryville Blue!’ they’d say.”
Estes met the former Betty Lillard from up the road in Etlan, while working as a lineman and attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Married in ‘55, they recently celebrated fifty-one years together. Drafted in the Army in ‘56, Estes did a tour of duty on the west coast, then came home to Rappahannock, where he was active in the Army Reserves. After a stint in the Army and some time in the Reserves, Estes was elected sheriff in 1962 and patrolled Rappahannock for the next ten years.
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While running a wrecking business and doing real estate in the ‘70s, Estes served on the
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