Other Friends

Some of my other friends at the time (when attending Menard and LSU-A were: Jack Lewis, who came to Menard I think in his Junior year. He remained my friend for a long time and maybe still is, don't know. Also, one of my friends at the time of high school is Randy Beasley. Randy is still with us as of this writing. He has Diabetes and other bad ailments, sicknesses and had to have part of a leg amputated. He now lives about 7 or 8 miles from me but I have not seen him for awhile. We occasionally talk on the phone or email. We "ran around" together as teens. We cut grass yards and picked up coke bottles in order to get money to go on dates with our favorite girls at the time. Later, we went out to favorite night spots together. Randy was also a "ladies man" and had no trouble at all "picking up" fly-by-night dates (if get drift). When I was in the military, Randy married another friend of mine, Anita Hebert and they had two children together. The kids were twins (boy and girl) and they raised them well, I think. Later, Randy and Anita got divorced when the kids were around 14 or so. Randy Jr. is now an Engineer living in the Dallas area and the daughter (don't remember her name) is a teacher in the local area. Anita went on to get her master's degree and became a teacher and later a higher level of education. I have not seen her for awhile. The last time I saw Anita was in a store when she told me she had just beaten cancer. I hope she is still well!
Another friend was and is David Devine. He knew Randy before I did because they had a mutual friend/cousin in Jonesville where Randy grew up. I visited Randy's old house where his Mom still lived many times in the past. She has since passed away. Randy and I went rabbit hunting numerous times and skinned the rabbits in his basement on the plantation house. Randys folks had a lot of land, including oil land. I'm sure it is worth a lot today.
Anyway, David was and is also a good friend. We hung around a lot, even though he went to Bolton High School and I was at Menard at the time. All three of us, Me, Randy and David went out together and did various things, like hunting, fishing, etc. David spent about 20 years in the Air Force, got married (his wife passed away many years ago), got married again and adopted a boy who is now grown. One of David's friends in high school was Nancy Lyons who became my girlfriend for awhile. I liked Nancy a lot but we were of different temperaments. She later got married to another one of my friends, Tom Kennedy and I think they are still married. The last time I saw Nancy was in a animal food store. I saw here, went over and hugged here, but she seemed very "cold" (not interested to see me), or maybe it just seemed that way, don't know. Nancy also had a friend, Charlene Ezernack who also hung out with us. I liked Charlene a lot and talked to her on the phone sometimes. I heard that she later got married, moved to Idaho or some such place, and had lot's of kids. I am very happy for her! More about friends and LSU, etc. on the next post.