I met Jimmy in 1960 after my family moved to Bluff Park. We lived on the same street, Park Terrace, along with The Bobos, Creels, Mortons, Crumps, DeLapps, Bonds, Bushs, Surles, Crows, Watsons, Woodwards, Camps, Howells, Hillhouse, Brandinos, Sides, Templetons, Jones and some more....We would play football in our backyards, army games, ride bicycles, etc. Jimmy was there a lot of the times. He lost his mother to cancer during those years. Must have been very hard on him. He seemed to me to be somewhat quiet, funloving, polite, wanting to belong. It's so sad to have any of our classmates leave us.

Jimmy could kick a football forever but the thing I remember, he was a roady for The Odds n Ends when we traveled to Ozark to play gigs our senior year.

Jimmy was in our 4th grade class at Bluff Park.  We played YMCA football together and Jimmy was our star running back. Jimmy kicked several PATs and field goals that made our 1968 season at Berry.  I wish I knew what happened to him.