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Donald Blackwood
Read Don's Writing "Class of 1959" From Then To Now
After graduation I bummed around for three years working at several jobs. I worked at Gideon-Anderson for six weeks as a butcher. Then went to Chevrolet in St. Louis, next I worked at the Missouri Pacific Railroad in the office and at Reground crankshafts in Malden.
In 1962 I married Judy McMunn from Malden, MO and farmed for the next twenty years. In 1966 I moved to Halls, Tennessee, to farm. In
1981 I put in a salvage yard in Ripley, Tennessee. 1988 I added a tire business until I retired in 2003.
I have one daughter,
Kristen married to Dickey Deaton. We have two grandchildren, Seth who is
sixteen, and Brenna, thirteen. After retiring we moved to the country next to our grandchildren. I thought I was retired, but I found out we have a full time job entertaining grandchildren. We pick them up from school, take them back to tennis and volleyball practice, ball games, friends houses, chase their horses......... I'M HAVING A BALL!!! Don's Photo Album
Don and Judy
Kristen and Dickey Seth and Brenna
"Tennessee Waltz" I remember Don ...
I
saw Don at the class reunion 2006 for the first time in 40+ years. It's
funny how the 40 year gap closes and you're talking with your old friend again
in the kind of conversation you would have had on the bus going to a school
event. Don reminded me that I had taught him to dance on the ferry
crossing at Reelfoot Lake going to a Senior Picnic. He said I told him it
was easy, "just count 1-2-3-4 and make a box" and he added, "that how I still
dance today." Oh, well! He should have asked someone else to
teach him. I never was a good dancer. Donald may have had poor
lessons in dancing but he was quite a musician. This is an album Don gave
me years ago. Just click to view the covers front and back. Bonnie B.
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