CHILDHOOD: I was born at the Hospital in Washington D.C. We were living on Nash Street in Washington, but by the time I was 6 weeks old we moved to a house on Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland. There I started school at Riverdale Elementary School. However by the next year we moved a couple miles north and two blocks off the Highway to 4417 Underwood Street, University Park, Hyattsville, Maryland.
MUSICAL ROOTS: Growing up, I had a lot of artistic encouragement. At age 4 I took ballet lessons. At age 6 I started piano lessons. By age I started violin lessons. I never became a dancer like my father or pianist like my sister, but I am a violinist and am blessed to follow in the footsteps of my grandfather and his father before him. In high school I played second chair in the Northwestern High School Orchestra, Prince Williams County Orchestra, and Maryland State Orchestra.
COURTSHIP: Our first meeting was at the Seabrook, Maryland, Congregation in the fall of 1959, when he was accompanying his friend Bob Quick and his family to deliver pictures Bob's mother Lillian had done. Our first meeting was uneventful. I remembered the family and their dark-haired friend. In April of the following year, we met again at a party hosted by my friend, Carol Seckman, who had moved from Seabrook to Arlington, Virginia. She wanted to introduce her old friends to her new Virginia friends. Ed was tall and skinny, with a popular "Duck-tail" hairstyle, made popular by Elvis Presley. He already had a white streak in the center of his forehead. I remembered his as conversational and interesting to talk to. However, since he lived an hour away, I never expected to see him again. Then in May we attended a meeting to teach us how to canvas the local area for accommodation in private homes for delegates to the summer assembly. I got excited thinking that I might see him again, but I never found him in the crowd. But the day before the actual assembly began, I ran into him again. He had been bullied into cutting his hair in a "flat-top" hairstyle, so I didn't even recognize him and brushed him off. But by the next day I realized who he was, and he was there again. From then on he was always around, traveling an hour each way at least twice a week for the next 2-1/2 years.
MARRIAGE: On September 14, 1963, we were married in the same Seabrook Kingdom Hall, near Lanham Maryland where we had first met. We had a full house of friends from both Maryland and Virginia and many of our family, including his parents, sister, and grandfather. I had my three aunts (Lydia, Lelia, and Louise) as well as cousin Aloise Yowell and family. We returned to my family home where daddy laid out a spread of food in the basement wreck room. There were people everywhere. My brother Eddie Garcia gave us a send off complete with gravel in all four of our hubcaps. For our honeymoon we traveled all along Skyline Drive from the Luray Caverns to Natural Bridge.
FIRST HOME: We lived in Greenwood Apartments at 7-corners in Arlington, Virginia. Soon I stopped working and we began a family. Three days after our second anniversary our daughter Eileen Rachel came along on Friday, 17 Sept 1965. A year later we moved to a townhouse in Manassas where our second daughter Emily Louise was born on Friday, 10 Nov 1967, which was Ed's parents anniversary. In 1974 we moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the Valley and in 1969 to Man, Logan County, West Virginia. It is here that Andrea Marie was born on Wednesday, 10 August 1977 and Steven Edward on Monday, 9 July 1979. Steven was born on my father's birthday, so we took off with our 6-week old son on a 10-hour drive to present Steven to his grandfather who was still living on Underwood Street. Six weeks after we returned home my father died of unknown causes.
FIRST JOB: In high school I took short hand and typing which prepared me to land a job with the General Accounting Office. My office was next door to the State Department where I age lunch every day. After lunch my duties required me to stop by the news release room in the State Department before returning to our office next door. Although the new release room was always empty, on Friday 22 November 1963 it was packed. As I fought my way to the front, I heard that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. Before I could reach my office, the whole office was buzzing about the news. We would soon learn that he would not recover from the shot.
FIRST JOB: In high school I took short hand and typing which prepared me to land a job with the General Accounting Office. My office was next door to the State Department where I age lunch every day. After lunch my duties required me to stop by the news release room in the State Department before returning to our office next door. Although the new release room was always empty, on Friday 22 November 1963 it was packed. As I fought my way to the front, I heard that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. Before I could reach my office, the whole office was buzzing about the news. We would soon learn that he would not recover from the shot.
OTHER JOBS: I was a stay at home mom until our last child started school. At that point I tried selling Insurance for three years. Eventually I went back to being a secretary. This required learning computers. I continued my training until I became certified as a Certified Professional Secretary.
OTHER HOMES: After the birth of our first daughter, Eileen, we moved form our one-bedroom apartment to a two-bedroom townhouse in Georgetown South, Manassas, Prince Williams County, Virginia. Here our second daughter, Emily, was born. In May 1973 we moved to Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, to help out a congregation that needed Elders. However, job opportunities were not good here, so after two years (July 1975), we moved to Kistler, Logan County, West Virginia, where a new congregation was being started. Here our third daughter, Andrea, and our son, Steven, were born. However, after staying here seven years, it became evident that Ed's parents, Jim and Gladys, needed our attention. They were still living in Milford, Virginia, while Ed's only sister was living in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas. So we all moved to Bryan in August 1982. We lived here for the next 20 years. Here Emily, Andrea, and Steven graduated from high school. Emily had settled in Lafayette, Louisiana, with her family. As Andrea and Steven finished high school, Emily coaxed them to move to Lafayette. As soon as I was able to take early retirement from Texas A&M, we joined them and are now living at 101 Courtney Dr., Duson, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, 70529.
BIRTH: [According to Highland Falls newspaper clipping] Mr. and Mrs. James Moore are the parents of a son, Edward James born at the Cornwall Hospital on Friday, August 4. This is the Moore's second child, the other being a little daughter, Janet Adele.
CHRISTENING: According to Highland Falls newspaper clipping: EDWARD JAMES MOORE CHRISTENED SEPTEMBER 3 [1939] Edward James Moore, four weeks old, son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Moore, was christened in the Church of the Holy Innocents, Sunday, September 3. The baby's christenening dress, nearly one hundred years old, was first worn by Mrs. Moore's grandfather [Her two grandfathers were Timothy Purdy Burger and Edward Everette Brodhead].
Baby book entries: Born at 10:12 am on Friday 4 Aug 1939. Weight 8 lbs 1 oz Doctor: Dr. L.C. Flood and nurse Henricke Brooks and Ruth Tompkins Weights: Aug 19 8 lb 5 oz (2 wks); Aug 22 8 lbs 12 oz; Aug 25 9 lbs (3 wks) God-mother Dorothy Woodward, 1st cousin once removed, his grandfather's sister's daughter. 2 wks turned from side to back
2 1/2 wks rolled from side to side
3 wks pulled knees up under tummy
1 mo 22" tall.
6 wks turned head from side to side
7 wks smiled
2 mo focused eyes on us. 24" tall.
9 wks cooed
3 mo sat up in chair. 25" tall.
4 mo plays with toys. 26" tall.
5 mo. 27" tall.
5 1/2 mo turns completely over from back to tummy and holds toys in hands, reaching for objects and holds bottle
6 mo puts toes in mouth and sits alone. Holds on to sides of bath tub. Holds 4-oz bottle alone. 28" tall.
8 mo sits alone. Drinks whole milk. Holds 8 oz bottle. Shakes head from side to side.
9 mo stood alone holding on. 29" tall
10 mo pulls up on feet and crept. Side steps around pen and drinks orange juice from cup
1 yr 31-1/2" tall
14 mo. walked alone
2 yrs 35-1/2" [Thus will be 6 foot tall at maturity]EDUCATION: He attended Highland Falls Elementary through High School. In his Junion year his family moved and he changed to the High School in Cornwall, New York. He loved Math and Algebra, and showed talent for Mechanical drawing.
BIOGRAPHY: Eileen was a beautiful baby. She walked at 11 months and could hold a conversation with just about anybody by the time she was two. She was very bright and learned well when she wanted to. Before her second birthday, she could identify most animals. One day when strolling through the elephant house at the Washington National Zoo, her great grandfather, James Moore, held her up to see the huge elephant, and said, "See the horsey." He had no idea she knew what she was seeing. Knowing that she knew that the animal was, her mother asked, "What is that animal?" She snapped back, "Elephant."
She was an angel, but had a will of her own. She would challenge each new taboo, and it would take a week of scolding and hand slapping before she would accept the correction. When she was caught coloring on the dinning room wall, her mom realized a week of pictures would ruin the lovely townhouse. So it was decided to collapse time into one afternoon. Time after time, Eileen endured a spanking and a stern talking to, only to be placed in front of the same wall with a fresh crayon, which she reached for with a glint in her eye, as she planned to continue her original work. The spanking and talks began again, until she finally, refused the offer of the crayon, shaking her head and promising never to repeat the art work. And she didn't.
She learned so quickly and well, that her Mom was surprised that she decided she wouldn't learn the alphabet. From age two they would sing the ABC song together. But then when she was asked to sing it by herself, she would cry and protest, "I can't, I can't." Not wanting to upset her, her mom would drop the subject. After a few months however, she would try again, only to have her again refuse to sing her part. This continued to occur until she was five. At that time, when she refused to sing the song solo, there was suddenly heard a little voice in the background, who sung the entire song as requested. It was Emily who was now 3 years old. Well, within 5 minutes, Eileen was able to sing the song solo, and within a few months, she could read words as well. Once she entered school her desire to achieve really took on and she was always the top of her class.
She took piano, and still enjoys playing piano and singing.
In high school Eileen stayed busy on the phone answering questions about homework. Then the questions changed to advise. Many of her friends treated her like the "Shrink."
She became a pioneer minister as soon as she got out of high school. She worked for a cleaning service part-time to get gas money. Eventually she began to bid and work her own cleaning jobs.
In 1985 she became engaged to Todd Riley who was attending Texas A&M University. He was from Ohio, but was destined never to return. When we took her younger sister Andrea and her brother Steven to Disney World, she and her sister Emily decided to stay home. By now they had their own apartment together. When we called home to check on the girls, she broke the news that she and Todd were engaged. Within a few months Emily too became engaged, and Eileen decided they would have a double wedding.
In 1996, Eileen and her husband, Todd, attended the 99th class of Gilead in New York and have been serving as missionaries in Mali, West Africa ever since.
MARRIAGE: On August 30, 1986, Eileen and Emily had a double wedding. After being so close all their life, it seemed natural that they would marry together.
Each had their own maid of honor, three brides maids of honor. Eileen and her bridal party entered the Kingdom Hall first and her dad brought her in on his arm. As Emily and her girls entered, her dad returned to the back of the Kingdom Hall to escort Emily down the isle. Harold Metzer did the honors, giving the vows first to Eileen and Todd, before turning to Emily and Craig. All went off with only one mistake, when Harold turned to Craig and called him Todd. He was quickly corrected and proceeded correctly to the finish. The kisses were given simultaneously, with Craig and Emily lasting the longest.At the reception, their best friends, Dianna, Rosie, Orlando Perez, and Bart acted out how the two couples met and courted. Their mother, Agnita, and Granny, Angelina, sung a duet while their Aunt Angelle accompanied them. Both couples spent their honeymoon night in local but separate hotel rooms.
Eileen and Todd stayed in town for the next ten years. Todd worked driving a county school buss, and helped Eileen in her cleaning business that she had begun when only 17.
He was raised in Ohio, but came to Bryan, Texas to live with his brother, a graduate student at Texas A&M University. Todd had started his College studies in a community college in his hometown. He had begun studying the Bible during the summer brake, and when he moved to Texas, his Bible teacher turned his name in for a follow up study. Our Presiding Overseer eagerly took up the challenge and found Todd to be very humble and honest hearted. As soon as he began studying, he began to attend meetings. Soon he was going in service and participating in the Ministry School. Although working part time to help pay his expenses, he never missed a meeting or opportunity to go in service. He kept up his University Studies after his Baptism, but soon thereafter he and Eileen began to date and ultimately decided to marry. So he left the University where he was studying to be an Anthropologist. His parents accepted his decision once they were sure this was what he wanted to do. Shortly after their marriage he began to pioneer, supporting himself by driving a school bus and helping her with her house cleaning jobs.
MARRIAGE: On August 30, 1986, he married Eileen in a double ceremony with her sister Emily.
Eileen and Todd stayed in town for the next ten years, continuing their pioneer ministry. In 1996, Todd and Eileen, attended the 99th class of Gilead in New York and have been serving as missionaries in Mali, West Africa ever since.
Andrea was supposed to be a boy. No one really knows why, it just seemed the right thing since there were already two girls in the family. Her mom had endulged this dream by buying mostly blue outfits. The most prized outfit was a postman's suit in honor of her grandfather. However, the boy was to come later. Her Mom's disappointment lasted only for a minute, and was turned at herself for feeling upset even for one moment with the wonderful gift she had received. Ever practical older sister Eileen said, "Mother, just let her wear the things. Blue is OK for a girl too." But she was not subjected to that.
Andrea was always a joy to everyone. She was easy to keep happy. All she wanted for the first six months of her life was to be eye to eye with her mother. So she would sit in her infant seat on top of the kitchen counter as mother cooked and washed dishes.
From the beginning she was a dreamer though. She had vivid dreams and loved to this day to tell people what she dreamed about the night before. However when she was little (younger than 6 or 7) she trouble distinguishing between her dreams and actual occurrences. She woul come in and begin excitedly telling a story that got more and more bazarre with each sentence, until her mom would have to ask, "Is this a dream?" Staring off into space, she would search her memory and finally admit sheepishly, "Yes."
One thing she did that was aggrevating is that she loved to draw on every tablet in the house. In fact if I wanted to write something down, I could NEVER find a blank sheet of paper anywhere in the house. Pretty soon, however, it became evident why she had this bad habit -- once she got in school she began to tell everyone that she wanted to be an Artist when she grew up. By the time she was 9 years old, she was accepted by a private teacher and soon the family walls began to fill with her beautiful artwork. Throughout school she won many accolades for her work. After high school she attended the Art school in Houston Texas sponsored by the Houston Art Museum.
Fortunately when she was in fourth grade, she had the opportunity to join the string program at school. In no time it was evident she had the family gift. Now she teaches beginner students. She had great feel for music. She also has a lovely voice.
When 17 she began to work hard with her congregation as a Pioneer minister. To help as many as possible with her ministry she has learned American Sign Language.
BREY MEETS ANDREA -- AUGUST 2000:
Brey was at Watchtower Farm for 6½ years. His roommate was Rocky Trahan. Eventually, Rocky left for Abbeville to get married. He asked Brey to be his best man at the wedding on August 5. Everyone in the Abshire family decided Brey and Andrea were perfect for each other and Rocky's wedding would be the perfect time to get them together. At one point, Velta Trahan tried to introduce Andrea to Brey, but Andrea explained, "I've already met him." But Velta insisted, saying, "But I want to tell him, 'You are the one!'" During the weekend, their paths crossed several times. Once they sat across from each other at lunch. Andrea was confused because, by the end of the weekend, he hadn't even asked for her phone number. She had been as bold as she thought it prudent - even telling him about her planned trip in a couple weeks to meet her sister and brother-in-law in France with a stop over at Brooklyn Bethel. Brey may have been shy, but he was clever. A few days after he got back to Walkill, much to her surprise he called. He explained, "I hope you don't mind, I got your phone number from the Abshire family." Fortunately his further inquiries led him to the discovery of a two-cent a minute phone card, because after that day, their phones were seldom hung up. Within a short amount of time, they had logged in many hours on the phone. By August 12th Brey had decided that truly this might be the one so he told her he wanted to date her with the view to marriage. She was confused, wondering how you could date when all you did was talk on the phone. After all they were still separated by hundreds of miles. But, later when he asked if he could pray together - over the phone - and she listened to his sincere prayer, she knew that this was the one for her.SEPTEMBER:
Anxious to see her again, on August 31 he drove for 3 hours just to be with her during her 1-hour lay over in New York on her way to Paris. He was so exhausted after working that he could hardly speak - or at least that was his excuse. What a change after all those long phone calls. When she returned to Brooklyn Bethel on her way home from Paris on September 11, he enlisted the help of his brother, Gage, who was at Patterson to make special arrangements to show her New York.Granny and Andrea's Aunt Angelle had arranged to take the family to see the Music Man on Broadway. These plans had been made months in advance and she couldn't turn down the opportunity to go. Wanting to spend every possible minute with Andrea, Brey went along to deal with the scalpers outside the theatre. He found a scalper with a pair of tickets, but he didn't want to break the pair. With much pleading, the scalper reluctantly gave in to Brey's heart and he paid the scalper's price. But now the scalper was left with a single ticket that probably wouldn't sell in the minutes left before the show was to begin. So at Andrea's prodding Aunt Angelle got the scalper to agree to trade Andrea's ticket for the matching seat. Brey and Andrea's hearts began beating louder than all 76 trombones put together.
That evening they had dinner together across the street form the Sands at a little Chinese Restaurant. But all too soon the visit was over and Andrea had to return to Lafayette on September 14.OCTOBER:
Less than a month of phone calls passed and Brey had to come for a visit. He arrived on October 20 for a ten-day stay. With service every day they had them plenty of time together. Now Brey knew what it would like to pioneer together with Andrea, and he liked the idea. He decided she was really the one. Andrea didn't want him to go back to New York. When he left he gave her a card that was not to be opened until he was gone. Excitedly as soon as he walked through the door, she opened it, read it, and began to cry.NOVEMBER:
Next it was Andrea's turn to go back to New York. So, exactly one month later on November 20, accompanied by Lindsey Mosing, she boarded a plane to spend 9 days at Wallkill. It was wonderful to see Brey in his element. His friends all told her how wild and crazy he is and made a lot of jokes. But then each one in turn would take her aside - as if it were a secret, but so that she would be sure to know - they would whisper, "He's really a good guy."DECEMBER:
Between AT&T and Continental, this long distance romance was getting expensive. Decisions had to be made. Brey felt this relationship was worth pursuing, and he was going to do it in person. So he turned in his resignation to Bethel, packed up all his belongings, and began making arrangements to move to Lafayette in January. But they couldn't go more than a month without seeing each other, so in December Brey had to find an excuse to take one more quick trip to Lafayette. He said he had come to search for a job and a place to live. But in reality Andrea had already found a temporary place for him to stay and gotten Craig, his future brother-in-law, to promise him a job. But he came in for the weekend to see the little apartment behind the Guidry's house and talk to Craig.JANUARY:
On January 1 he arrived in Lafayette for good. The friends in Betrand congregation welcomed him with open arms, but no one's arms were as open as Andrea's. They gave him housewarming presents to help him get started, realizing that these gifts would soon be for Andrea as well.FEBRUARY:
On February 9, accompanied by Emilie Hardesty, Andrea takes Brey to meet the Texas relatives - Grandma Moore, Uncle Jerry, Aunt Janet and cousin Janine. They brought presents for the family, but none were as special as the gift Brey had brought for Andrea. Everyone had been anticipating that they would soon be engaged. However, he had not given her the ring yet, making it official. With all this anticipation, Brey was unsure how to surprise Andrea. So on the first day of their trip to Texas he presented her with a beautiful diamond solitaire pendent. He hoped this would throw her off and keep her from suspecting what he was about to ask her. This was a clever idea, however, just knowing that this necklace was the prelude to his asking her to marry him made his heart beat out of his chest. He knew he had to calm down, or she would suspect something. So he managed to calm down and get past step one.
On February 10, the second day of the trip, he brought along the ring in his jacket pocket as they strolled around Austin, Texas, sightseeing with Andrea's cousin and friends. He even told Janine, Yvette, and Emilie what he planned to do so that they would move out of the way whenever he found the right moment. Poor Brey carried the ring in its box around all day without finding that special moment. This was no easy feat, because the box made a hard lump in his pocket. He knew if Andrea bumped into that lump, she would guess what it was. So as they walked along, whenever she would change the side she was on, he had to discretely unzip his jacket pocket, switch the box to his other side, and zip the pocket closed again.Finally the moment came as he was saying good night. Holding her close to his chest, with his heart about to pound out of his chest, he asked her, "Andrea Marie, will you be my wife?" She desperately but unsuccessfully tried to think of something romantic and meaningful, and after only a minute's hesitation, she stuttered, "YES." As he asked her, he unzipped his jacket pocket, pulled out the box and held it out to her. She was so excited that she didn't even see the box. She just kept hugging him.
MARRIAGE: Married June 9, 2001 to Brey Fleegle in the Abbeyville, LA, congregation with reception in Kaplin, LA at the Kaplin center.
Brey was raised in Pennsylvania. His parents had learned the truth after the death of their first child, but before the birth of their four children, of whom Brey is number two with only one sister.
First Gage, then Brey and finally Dane were accepted to Bethel with Gage serving in Patterson and Brey and Dane working at the Farm. Altogether, Brey spent six years as a waiter. He came to Abbeville to be the best man at his x-roommate's wedding, met Andrea, left Bethel to get to know her better, and untimately married her.
MARRIAGE: Married June 9, 2001 to Brey Fleegle in the Abbeyville, LA, congregation with reception in Kaplin, LA at the Kaplin center.
He learned to work with his father in remodeling and carpet installing when he was a child. He works with his Brother-in-law, Craig who is a builder.
BIRTH: Although it never mattered to us what sex our children were, after having two girls, we thought our third child should be a boy. When that didn't happen, we thought a son was not to be in our family. Therefore, Steven came as a big surprise. After three girls we expected another girl. What a happy surprise when he came along.
INFANT: Steven always played quietly by himself when he was little. It made him easy to care for as an infant. And he was certainly cute.
Ed had always said it would be harder to raise a boy. And that proved true. Boys are always more determined to have their way, and Steven was no exception there. When he would start toward something breakable, he would usually beat everyone to the object, resulting in problems.
One day, he seemed to be playing quietly, until a single clink alerted of trouble. Steven was discovered in the middle of the kitchen table, spooning sugar out of the sugar bowl spoon for spoon all over the table, chairs, floor, and it even stuck to the window behind the table. He was just having fun with his discovery process.
SPEECH: Steve had problem speaking plainly. He didn't grow out of his baby talk before starting kindergarten. Adding to the problem, the school felt other more underprivileged children needed help with speech therapy. Certainly such a cute, well-dressed child would figure out to talk by himself. But that was a mistake that was finally corrected when he was in third grade and a new principal came to the school. She was a real blessing for Steven, and she got him the help he needed. It still took time, but eventually, we could see him concentrating on the hard words. He even slowed his speech down whenever when a problem word would come into the sentence. Soon, his tongue was moving smoothly over every word -- in fact, WORD was one of his hardest words to say - of course WORLD was impossible for him to pronounce.
PETS: He was fascinated with our cat's 6 kittens. Later when we got Nicky, who grew to be a huge yellow cat, he took it on himself to train him. Of course you really can't teach cats tricks, but he got him to ride on his shoulders with his long legs hanging over each of Steven's shoulders. He had a hand in teaching our dauchound dog Mattie to bark on command. Whenever he would say, "Say yes," Mattie would respond by barking. Now he is tired of her loud bark, and tries to shut her up, but that is much harder to teach.
YOUTH: He was always nervous. Instead of sucking his thumb, he would twist his ears. He could even twist and fold each ear inside itself. He loved to quietly do this in school to the teacher's total frustration. How could she teach with everyone looking at Steven? He had other antics that were distracting, although never malicious. Even though he would frequently get in trouble, he was always respectful to the teacher and would accept any punishment meted out to him and carry it out with a smile on his face. We were all happy when he grew out of his playful tricks when he entered the 9th grade. Suddenly there were no more antics.
His biggest surprise came when he was about to graduate from high school. Parents normally want to present their sons with a new car at this occasion, however this didn't seem possible at the time. However, his dad came through for him when he won a 1997 Geo Tracker at Churches Chicken. He was just eating his lunch, as he often did between carpet cleaning jobs. The game card he was given said, sorry, try again. As he left a woman came in and demanded, "Give me a winning game card." To which the woman behind the counter said, "Sure," as she handed her a card. The idea that you could just demand a "winning" game card, caught his interest, and he paused, looking the situation over. Seeing his interest, the woman behind the counter said to him, "Here, do you want one too." So he accepted it and hurriedly scratched it off. He was further confused to see that the card said, "YOU WON!" So he turned to the counter, thinking that the prize was a small remote control car. But he was excited when he was told that it was a full size, $15,000 car. Steven went with his dad to accept the car from the Churches Chicken people, and eventually the car was put in Steven's name for $1.
QUALITIES: He was always very good with math and other electronic things. Before he could read, he figured out how to work the VCR and taught everyone else in the family what to do. When 5 he began to learn computers the love affair grew. It was hard to pull him away from the computer each day. He loves to help others with his knowledge of computers.
He is very methodical, and very organized. You would never have expected it if you had seen his room when he was young. But like all messy little boys, they grow up.
It was no surprise to everyone that he developed a good sense of humor. He is just like his father in this way. One of his first jobs combined his two loves -- computers and humor. He worked for a publishing company that faxed jokes all over town every morning, along with advertisements. It was his job to organize the daily fax, and it required him to have to search the web for "G" rated jokes. What a perfect job. However, his boss went out of business and his dream job came to an end.
He is also very devoted to his family. He can empathize when they are sad and tries to cheer them up with his concern.
It is inevitable that Steven would grow up to work around computers, and loves his work. His abilities helped him made him a natural to help out his local congregation with their sound system. In no time he had everything organized.
DEATH: GRAVE MARKER: In Montecello Memorial Park James C. Gianakos, Sgt. US Army in World War II.
DEATH: Died of a massive heart attack. Funeral serivces were held on March 29, 1996, at the Murphy Funeral Home in Arlington, Virginia.
Information about this individual was provided by Jim Ward (jlward@knology.net) of Madison, Alabama.
MILITARY SERVICE: Bet. January 1943 - November 01, 1945, WWII: 783rd Bomb Squadron, 465th Bomb Group, 15th US AAF, Italy. B-24 nose-gunner.
OCCUPATION: Bet. 1947 - 2001, High school teacher and coach. Retired in 2001 after 55 years of coaching.
Information about this individual was provided by Jim Ward (jlward@knology.net) of Madison, Alabama.
EDUCATION: Bet. 1969 - 1976, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Earned two BA degrees: Political Science 1973, History 1975
MILITARY SERVICE: Bet. 1976 - 1981, US Navy: Enlisted, 1976; completed OCS, Newport, RI, 1977; Gunnery Officer aboard USS Plymouth Rock (LSD29), 1978-1979; Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer attached to USMC at Camp Pendleton, CA, 1979-1981 Occupation: Bet. 1982 - 1996, Human Resources and Technical Recruiting
RESIDENCES: Bet. 1981 - 1990, Alexandria, VA
Bet. 1990 - 1993, Huntsville, AL
Bet. 1993 - 1996, Mobile, AL
Aft. 1996, Madison, ALMARRIAGE: First marriage to Lo Ann Griggs on May 15, 1983 in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, ended in divorce in Virginia in 1991.
Information about this individual was provided by himself (jlward@knology.net) of Madison, Alabama.
Information about this individual was provided by Jim Ward (jlward@knology.net) of Madison, Alabama.
Information about this individual was provided by Jim Ward (jlward@knology.net) of Madison, Alabama.