lest we forget . . . I met Gaylon at Avondale elementary school when we were in fourth grade. He had an impish kind of smile, made friends easily with a new guy like me, and shared some of the same interests I did. He took up the trumpet in fifth grade and had a silver trumpet--everybody else but one person (Rick Sumner) had brass instruments. We stayed good friends through Sam Houston and Tascosa. Like me, he was a good musician but not a great one--both of us shared the serious motivation that being in the marching band qualified you for being excused from taking physical education class! (I have often wondered how many people would have even considered studying instrumental music without that special motivation). Not long after we graduated, Gaylon developed liver cancer, and it did not take long for it to take his life. He is buried in the family plot in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. and I have tried as often as I had the time to stop by there on my way driving home from Kansas City to Amarillo and decorate his grave with a Rebel flag. "Always a Rebel!" from Clarence Annett
Clarence Annett
lest we forget . . . I met Gaylon at Avondale elementary school when we were in fourth grade. He had an impish kind of smile, made friends easily with a new guy like me, and shared some of the same interests I did. He took up the trumpet in fifth grade and had a silver trumpet--everybody else but one person (Rick Sumner) had brass instruments. We stayed good friends through Sam Houston and Tascosa. Like me, he was a good musician but not a great one--both of us shared the serious motivation that being in the marching band qualified you for being excused from taking physical education class! (I have often wondered how many people would have even considered studying instrumental music without that special motivation). Not long after we graduated, Gaylon developed liver cancer, and it did not take long for it to take his life. He is buried in the family plot in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. and I have tried as often as I had the time to stop by there on my way driving home from Kansas City to Amarillo and decorate his grave with a Rebel flag. "Always a Rebel!" from Clarence Annett
Mark Mitchell
Wow.
Gaylon, Randy Pye, Koy Jones and I were best friends in the 70's.
Such a loss.... Anyone know what happened?
Mark
mark.mitchell@cox.net