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The Class of 1940 included:
| Vela Mildred Adamson | Bernadine Fife | Peggy Frances Phillips | | Bobbye Ayers | James Harry Forrest | Billie Pollard | | Florine Beatrice Barkouskie | L. B. Gamble | Juanita Leona Purcell | | Doyle Beene | Max Ray Haddick | Marietta Purcell | | Glenn E. Best | Nellie Frances Hancock | Stella Marie Richardson | | Myrtle Blackmon | Majorie Marie Hardin | Mellie Jo Richardson | | Jimmie Elaine Blair | Charles Ray Hitt | Jarvis Roberson | | Branvell Bodine | Lanora Maud Hughes | Charles Wesley Smith | | Thomas Franklin Booker | Jenoise Hunt | Wanda Smith | | Charlie Walter Bounds | Reese B. Hunt | Billy H. Stephens | | Glenn D. Bounds | Margaret E. Iley | Eugene Stephens | | Kelly Lou Bounds | William Hubert Ingram | Dorothy Tackett | | Helen Eugene Bunn | Audrey Kinkaid | Eunice Alta Taylor | | Clifford E. Cain | James Claude Kirton | Genevieve Taylor | | Don S. Caldwell, Jr. | Violet Kuyava | J. W. Taylor | | Thomas Beall Chatham, Jr. | T. O. Lofland, Jr. | Margie Taylor | | Frank Darwin Connell | Le Gene Lott | Bessie Marie Tomlin | | Henry Richard Copeland | Edwin Pete Mach, Jr. | Nina Ruth Trotter | | Warner Croft | Johnnie Ruth Mackey | Lydia Juanita Vaughan | | Annie Pearl Daniels | Juanita McClintock | Frankie Vickers | | Susie Mae Daniels | Horace McCord | Forrest M. Wallace | | Berniece Dark | Oba Udean Milburn | Margaret Waller | | Goldie Ruth Day | Fred D. Mitchell, Jr. | Anna Nell Waters | | Lois Juanita Denton | Margie Melissa Moody | Margaret Lee Williams | | Helen Glover Donnell | Thomas Edward Moody | Roy M. Willis | | Naomi Dossey | Delbert Edward Moore | Billy Fred Wright, Jr. | | O. B. East | Thomas Dixie Neale | Irby Wylie | | Dulcie Erickson | Billie Bob New | Dorothy Glennis Yandell | | Vauda Esskew | Aleene Padgett | Lloyd Yelverton | | Eugene Eubanks | Lorraine Parker | | | Christina Louisa Fessler | Colleen Patton | |
Mexia High School won the County Meet in 1940.
Mexia defeated Groesbeck by a score of 9 to 6 in a baseball game on March 16, 1940.
Thursday, October 3, 1940, the Mexia Junior High School Kittens defeated the Corsicana Junior High for the score of 12 to 0.
Miss Anna Nell Waters won the DAR contest on March 21, 1940. Delbert Moore was the Junior Rotarian.

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