Friends of Basketball

Nola and James Sanders

Year Inducted: 1993

Category: Friends of Basketball

Schools / Organizations:

Frankfort High School

West Frankfort High School

Biography:

James & Nola Sanders returned to West Frankfort from Chicago when James retired.  During the first 16 years of their retirement they misst just 3 basketball games played by Frankfort Community High School.  they, they missed only when health prevented their attendance.  The couple became interested in West Frankfort basketball when their grandkids attended that school.  Nola remembers the first state tournament that she waw in old Huff Gymnasium when she was a freshman and her father brought her to Champaign on the train.

James died in the early 2000’s but we do not have the details.

Nola died on September 7, 2011 at the age of 101.