By Angel Perkins News-Mirror Editor
A record number of visitors came to enjoy lunch at the Matchett Senior Center Friday. Some say it may have been the scheduled entertainment that brought more than 83 people including the local Red Hat ladies and area children to the gathering place normally frequented by area seniors.
Gordy Clemens of Warsaw, Lonnie Witham of Warsaw (a Triton graduate) and his daughter Lisa Scott of North Webster (also a Triton graduate) entertained the crowd with music. They sang solos and duets from Neal Diamond tunes to country songs to ballads.

 The trio showed their music expertise free of charge as they were already set up in the building for a private party the next night. At one point, wearing Elvis costumes in their full regalia, the men showed why they used to be referred to as “the Dueling Elvis’.”
With the accompaniment of Steve Hatfield of Warsaw they now  call themselves “The Classics,” and rightfully so. “I’ve been singing all my life, it runs in the family,” said Scott of the ability she shares with her father, Lonnie Witham.
Violet Stine, his mother, didn’t sing for a living but she sang very well as Scott recalled and it is her talent that is believed to have passed on. For the past four or five years Scott and her father have performed all around the Midwest in venues and parties in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan and she says only a couple of her and her husband’s (Andy) seven children share singing aspirations.
“I sang in public in the third grade in the musical ‘The Sound of Music’ at the playhouse in Syracuse,” she said. When she’s not traveling and singing she is a full-time housewife and stay-at-home mom.
Her father retired from Biomet and Clemens works for Dewald Fluid Power. Clemens said he sings for fun and to meet and greet people and that he and Witham have been singing together since 1991.
Witham says that when he was younger he was too shy to try to sing in public but his live performances for the Elk Lodge’s and American Legion’s state meetings make that fact difficult to believe. Together or individually, the three pulled in a crowd at Bourbon that would make any entertainer, or family member proud.