I should have more details soon, but I know that Jimmy was battling the Big C for quite some time,
Personally, I still remember the 3 or 4 year old Jimmy peddling his tricycle down East 5th street from his home on Greenway Ave. and"introducing himself".....however kids that age did it....
we remained friends from that day on.
Jimmy was the bravest of my friends back then. He was the first to try to smoke a cigarette....
Correction! It was not a real cigarette......we didn't have any cigarettes....but Jimmy and I (being "brain surgeon smart" ) made some.
We found some cigarette paper...somewhere....and figured that coffee grounds looked almost exactly like tobacco....so....we made our own cigarettes. Looked just like the real thing.
For you scientifically minded.....coffee grounds burn faster than cigarette paper. Or maybe it's the other way around.
At any rate...our experiment gave new meaning to the term, "Hot Lips."
Jimmy and I cooled things off with a swig of two from a bottle from his dad's medicine cabinet that Jimmy called "VO DAK."
He was right about it being great "medicine."
It made me feel real good......and I wasn't even sick!
By this time .....THE LONE RANGER was on the air...and after he gave the widow lady he had just saved from the bad guys...a silver bullet, it was time for me to go home.
Correction....stagger home.
Rest in Peace, Jimmy.
Ed
A Service of Witness to the Resurrection will be held Saturday, March 3, 2018, at 11:00 am in the Chapel of First Presbyterian Church, Spartanburg. Memorials may be made to Winter Warmth, First Presbyterian Church, 393 E. Maine St., Spartanburg, SC 29302 or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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