2018

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Charles Brumfield Gulley, 83, of Montgomery passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on July 12, 2018, at Angels for the Elderly after a long, courageous battle with Alzheimer’s. Charles was born on August 31, 1934, in Brookhaven, MS. He attended Brookhaven High School and McCallie Military […]

In 1914, my father was born on the family farm about 10 miles (an all-day round trip wagon ride) west of Hot Springs AR. After graduating from the 8th grade, at age 14, he and his 16 year old brother were told the farm could not support them and they had to leave home. Dad and Uncle Clifford did split up, but for the next five years, lived as hobo’s and itinerant workers. Near the same time, they drifted back to the family farm.

In 1913, my mother was born in Ravena, TX, to a one horse one plow sharecropper near the banks of the Red River. During the dust bowl days, Papa Fogle loaded the wagon, and instead of going west to CA, he went east and settled west of Hot Springs, AR. Mom and Dad met and married. Two and a half years after my older sister was born in a log cabin, I was born in a frame farm house located where the Hot Springs airport now sits. For the next 9 years, we lived in 5 other locations, but finally settled in Hot Springs. I went to Hot Springs schools, and due to lack of motivation, family not caring, and being a closet juvie, I did poorly. I, however, was a prolific reader. For the next 7 years, I averaged 1.5 books a week, including in class.

Colonel John E. “Jack” Downey “Headed West” June 23, 2018 Col. John E. “Jack” Downey, (USAF Ret.) passed away peacefully on June 23, 2018, in St. Petersburg, FL. Jack is survived by his wife, Marilyn DeWitt Eddy and his children Kristen Crider, John E, Downey, Jr., Paige Noel, Stacy Westbrook, Diane New, and Denise Kid.