MY STORY 8-24-07

My story is some more than the bio info. I felt like readers that did not know me even though I spent most of my life in Liddieville might like to know who this fellow is that is writing what I am reading. I was born in 1930 at 9:30 in an old sharecropper house about 100 yards from where I live now. The house was not sealed with any kind of inner sealing . The top was tin, there was no electricity, any way to cool water, very little to make something to fan with and it was 108 degrees a record that still stands to day according to the Weatherman at KNOE-TV. My Daddy trapped and coonskins were very valuable because the fur was used to make coats, vests, and hats. Daddy got $25.00 for the skin and had to pass by Dr, Rogers’s office and He knew He would not have the money to pay when I was born so He paid for me in advance. Costs $25:00 if Daddy came and got the Doctor which He did in a T Model car. I went to Ogden School and graduated in 1952. My Daddy had a farm and a store with lots of money owed to him and I wanted to get as far away from both as I could and the only place to do that was College. Ogden had gotten a coach that graduated from La. College and when He heard Ralph Ross and I were going to College He suggested it and we agreed. We had talked our parents into letting us go to Ogden an extra year because we were going to College but we really wanted to play basketball another year.

After graduating from college I spent 2 years in the army and after that some minor jobs. I began coaching at Baskin then came to Ogden for one year, then to Central High School as Principal for seven years. A friend asked me to help some folks start a Private School in Rayville. After a year and a half of that I went to Wisner Junior High for about two years and then went to work as a Supervisor in the School Board Office as a Supervisor of varying programs for 19 years and retired.

During retirement I wrote two books. Neither did very well. I made the mistake of becoming a Radio Talk Show person but thanks to my oldest Daughter Phyllis, she was able to get me out of that. I owned a small Motor Home for a while. A pull type travel trailer for a while then bought a fifth wheel and shortly after sold it and have been at home with my wife since. She graduated from Crowville High School and retired from The Hospital in Winnsboro about two years after I retired. We married 53 years ago after playing on Saturday in the Charles Hawsey Independent Basketball Tournament at Ogden High School.

Things I have done will appear from time to time in some future writings as well as My Wife Dessie. It would not be very interesting to just write my life story but I am going to copy a poem I wrote about a windmill that won an international award for me. I’ll copy that one day in the future when the article I am writing would have some bearing on windmills.

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