by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | JACKSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, Uncategorized
Years ago, because many of the Marines recently killed in the Iraq War came from Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, President George W. Bush went there to be with families and friends of the fallen men. Listening to his televised speech at the Base, I found...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | JACKSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, Uncategorized
I stepped off the bus in August 1957 to start a new life in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Looking up the street I noticed signs of Bars and Hock Shops. Glancing in the opposite direction I noted establishments of the same order. I walked into the Bus Station to...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY WORKING YEARS, Uncategorized
Although it would help me in later years, when Lisa saw me reach for a pencil and my yellow legal pad, her lips pursed and she said, “We don’t do it like that.” Since I looked puzzled, she continued, “We type as we write. You will get used to...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
After a recent conversation with a young man concerning having children in the home, it dawned on me why Aunt Doris, Aunt Annie, Aunt Sis, Aunt Dolores, and Aunt Adriane treasured the company of the McKay Street Kernen girls. They had no daughters of their own,...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
She was not our Aunt but we called her that because in the South some people become Family Members when they are drawn into the circle that is often shared and never neglected. Aunt Delores was one of those persons we grew to love in early childhood. In...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
I was named after my mother’s Aunt Annie. I never knew where my Geraldine name came from and was always called “Gerry Ann” by older relatives when I was little. In the third grade when I decided to be “grown-up” and call myself “Geraldine” at school, instead...
