Just before she graduated from Gainesville High School in 1933, Susie Mayes lost her father, Robert Mayes, in an automobile accident on Green Street.Susie had to have a new dress for graduation and one for baccalaureate services, but her mother didn’t have the money for her husband’s funeral and the dresses. A neighbor had connections to a clothing store in Atlanta, and Susie got the dresses she needed. Her father had been superintendent of Gainesville’s waterworks.Susie, who now is Susie Mayes O’dell, is 104 years old and the oldest living graduate of Gainesville High School.