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Teddie Jordan

Beau, I am so sorry that this storm hit us at this time when you are trying to get back to normal, but it did. Yeah I know, What's normal these days?  Whats  par on this course? I had been busy keeping things together this week but will make a concerted effort be more in touch with you and Diane.

And having lost so many beloved canines, I know just hard it is to loose them . He and a host of others that you have loved will be waiting for you at the soul bridge up yonder!

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

After having lived through this horror, had heat and elec., but lost water and yesterday a busted pipe. So, the house is a mess,dirty clothes, dirty dishes, some collected water for coffee, snowy for the 3 toilets...bad back, as I crawed under the house, never done this one before. I'm emotionally, physically exhausted, but spiritually sound, I'm done with the romance of living in snow country....lol  

Just seems like the Lord is handing us situations we can't ignore. Beau, the Lord really gave you the surmountable, never insurmountable for you ole friend! You are our fearless leader, us Waltripians hold onto!

I know you don't feel this today, and Damnit, we did not want to hear this morning of Jack's passing over the rainbow.  I, like you and Diane, give my heart to mine.  Brought tears to my eyes this morning for you and Diane in the midst of loss of one for your true companions.  Last one I lost, now replaced by Angel  was Annie, best and loyal black and brown intelligent country dog.   Miss her to this day and it still pricks my heart.  I ran to several vets, and last to Texas A&M where I let her go.  I'm so heartened that Jack got to die at home in the last exta cold morning with his family. Beau, grieve as you must, but breathe slowly, keep peace in your body, think twice about trying to run around  trying to perform all the manly duties, take rest that all will get done in time, most important, take extra care with your medical circumstances, your in recovery mode.

Feeling your pain, buddy

Tom Britton '65

We're cheering you on Beau...

So sorry to hear about Jackie's passing. He and Sandy - together again.

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

jack and Cooper

Linda Webster '65 (Jennings)

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hello my phyne waltripians,   What a couple of months eh!   and what a weeks it was last last !    We survibed and theem some.   Lake you Kay, we we re emotionasl ehahuted as well as phyiscaal exahuhated.   those words dont look right, but it take so long to redoooo ethem.   Maybe they make sencesd.

    Thanks for the words of endocorindement and feelins for Jack.   He was a good good fathitionful comp;anions and mokst pups are.    

    Spent a greuling day down at EM amdersonsom ysterday from 6 am till 6 pm.  acoordions to out phones, the waked 4 miles all tolkd.   One might die donwn ther, you bbe fit for sure when you do.

     Met with my 4 neurosurgeorns and pronounced that I could get on my my miglt life.  No head buttin no moose or rhinosterouster, but I COULD GET OUT AND AND HAVE FUN AND GET ON MY MY LIFE AND JUST ENJOY IT....

          YOU BET i WILL YOU BETT I WILL FOR REAT AND FOR TRUE.

I get fited for my radiation mask thursday and probaby starton radation next next weelk.    Saw pictionures of my brain before both burshery and say both tumors, and picturels of my bain after surgery and both are gone....the tumors, not both brains.   oh yeah, I have 2 brains,   Battman and Supuerman brains,  ando of course sound like Forrest Gumps dumber brober Dopye.   but I yam what I yam....

     You know,  I never hit 500 home runs, or played 1st base for 20 years not missing a game,  (i actually hit 2 home runs in softball all the years I played, but wast batting .1000)     

  "BUT TODAY,  I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH..."

     Got a lot of speechk therapay and motoros skills therapahy and learing how write again,   but I'll get there, or as good as there.    As long as I have my beloved by my side, AINT NOTHING WE CANT DO TOGETHERED.  

     Been contatced by Robert Duvalls peplels and Keven Kothers pepoles and Tom Hanks peoples and each want to play me in the moviel...I say, cool, yall all can be me, and I'kll me be....of course alll the starlets in hollyrwoond wand to play Diane...of couddpe it would take half dozens of em to acctually be her.                      

     Othay,  running down and getting tiresd, so I will say , "see ya" for now.

Kepp the sun at your six and "ride boldy ride..."

Your frien and redisenst brain surtergon,  Cepus R Brainiac to the 2nd...hiyo silver, away.....

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Welcome back, Beau, the above sounds busy and good conclusion..  So glad for you and your angel, Diane,  Sounds as though you are being a good patient, I am so glad you and Diane chose thie Medical Center in Houston to help you.  After all we've lived and heard of it all our lives, seems like.  Where else.

I have a little story to tell you.  

I drove out of my drive one  day and he was just standing by my mailbox...Dr. Graham, he said, works in the Medical center, well retired,  and living here now. I was  going out to the Senior Ctr, but really felt taken with this man, like he appeared out of the wherever.  we talked about an hour and today, I saw him again, when I was walking my dogs to the gate, he wanted help.  Seemed he walked down the wrong wrong road and these pups decided to follow him.  Well he asked me if I could drive him and the pups and drop them off at their home, would save him a long walk back. I said sure, and got my car, dropped them off and talked awhile in the car.  He mentioned a Dr. Harper and a Dr. Andrew c. Roisten? would you know of them?  Anyway a little eerie I do think he is a doctor and we both remembered each other's name, for old people unlikely.  Just a little puzzeling, but very nice.  He is married friends,so that is not the story nere.  Just country story   of how to meet your neighbors...lol

Jerry Eppner

When I get the forum updates by email, I am now directed to the homepage.  It used to be I could click on the message and read it.  Was this changed intentionally?

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Jerry, I had another classmate contact me about this same problem.  Evidently, the software company that supports our website has made a change.  I have contacted them to see if it was intentional or a "glitch" when they were working on something else.  Sorry for the inconvenience and hope it will be corrected soon.

Jerry Eppner

Thanks, Beverly.  If I stay logged in on the website, it is no big deal.  If I log out, then I have to log in again to read.  No big deal, but it is different.

Bennie Schielack

I have been keeping the website in an open window and just refresh each day.  Easy peasy . . . . . 

Wayne Lake

Hi’ya, I hope all is well and you survived the big Texas21COVIDFreeze,

I got my 2^nd COVID vaccine dose (Moderna) today and feeling a little tired but otherwise ok and glad to get that tick in the box. I think what I miss most and look forward to, is going to local open air, live music beach bar venues around here – Texas country folk singer-song writers are my favorite – there is something about live music even if they have no range and can’t sing on key!   

Reference Wacos’ own Billy Joe Shaver’s ‘I’m just an old chunk of coal but I’ll be a diamond someday’…… well thanks to my COVID vaccine, I think I’ll have a 75^th B-day this year and will designate it as my diamond jubilee. Maybe we should celebrate our common significant b-day’s , whaddayatink Johnny?

We had a pretty bad fish kill here in Aransas , lost a lot of plants, all my tomatoes and looking out from my back porch I can see/smell about ½ million dead mullet. I also pulled out a 10 # tarpon near my dock. For those of you not familiar with tarpon, they are a great sport fish with phenomenal aerial  displays  and they were once abundant around here {FDR came to Port  A in the late 30’s to catch the ‘silver kings’} but like so many other species over fished and all most disappeared. Mankind is mankind’s worst enemy.   

In the middle or the big freeze Teddie texted me to check out Vince Gill’s recent ‘There Ain’t Nothing like a Guy Clark Song’ which I did and I also like Rodney Crowels Redention of Guy Clark’s ‘She Ain’t  going Nowhere’ recorded in his wood shop. I(t just doesn’t get any better……………I just love this stuff –thanks Teddie.      

The dolphins ain’t dancin’ but from Aransas Pass’, stay safe m friends – we will get through this , wtl

James King '65

Wayne, my first visit to Port Arkansas was 1961 just before Hurricane Carla landed. It was beautiful so much better than Galveston. The surf was clear with a great fishing pier and a jetty. Different fish present. The first tarpon I saw hooked and landed on the pier was a spectacular event. 

Mary Weidner (Williams)

Praying for you Beau.  I hope you are staying close by MD Anderson while doing all this radiation? I am pulling for you! We just don't know what we will have to go through in life do we? You have faith and that will get you through. God bless you.

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Beau that was a thoughtful introspective dialog, and well appreciated. Loved the glimspe into your fishing life. Mine was right here on the farm and the fishing hole, I enjoyed catching catfish with my Uncle Johnson, my sister and Uncle all sharing stories with our cane poles waiting for the "big one".

All seriousness aside, hoping after the radiation you will be feeling much better and we can all adjourn to the Chappel Hill homestead and enjoy.

Frank Lynn

Hang in there, Beau. You are in our thoughts and prayers.

Teddie Jordan

 Thanks for the update Cephus, think about y'all and pray for you and your health care team often. Keep doing what you're doing. Love to you and Diane!

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I am going to be a great grandmother in August!  Can't believe it.  My grandson will be 27 tomorrow.  He and his wife are expecting while not really knowing what life will be like with a baby!  They are trying to transfer to Texas.  They are still in California but want to come home.  The price of houses within an hour of Austin are crazy $$$$.  I told my older daughter that I went from a live and let live lifestyle to a I might have to get a gun to protect my child stance in the course of my pregnancy.  My grandson's wife is a very intelligent mechanical engineer, but she is adamant about coming home to Texas for the good of her baby.  Just funny to see hormones working.  My grandson is keeping his head down and just working with his supervisor to make it happen.  Google gives men four months of paternity leave.  Different world now isn't it?  
we were supposed to get our second vaccine on the 1st of March, but Polar Vortex caused a delay until the 13th.  I will be glad to get that accomplished.  I looked on Google Earth app the other day just to see my two homes in Oak Forest.  They are both still in good shape.My house on W. 43rd was completed in 1946 just two months before I was born.  They have added, but it's still there.  Of course the asbestos shingles are gone.  We grew up with lots of dangerous stuff.

Wayne, I would love to go to some live music venues too.  We have the Greune Dance Hall about 15 minutes away that always had live music every Saturday night.  I miss that.  Once I drag my husband in, he doesn't want to leave.  We have several other places, but the Dance Hall has been a favorite since I was in elementary school.  
beau i am praying for you and Diane to get through this without problems.  This is a team effort and I know Diane is a team player.  God bless you and keep you safe in His loving arms.

Tom Britton '65

Pat....how very exciting. It will be great to have your California family closer. But, as you pointed out, finding a house in the Austin area is darn near impossible. Crazy! Keep us posted.

Ruth Ellen Winters (Schmidt)

Beau you are in my thoughts and prayers. Hope you are better soon. Prayers are a powerful thing. Gods Blessings to you and Diane.  

Bill Traill

Keep it up Beau ! You’re doing great 👍😎

Mary Weidner (Williams)

Beau, keep up the positive attitude and keep planning that party! I have never been to your "paradise" but I would love to come! You are an inspiration to all of us!😘

Jenny Taylor (Williams)

Beau, My friend.  We are all praying for your full recovery.  You are truly remarkable.  Love to both of you!  

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Ahhh, my most favorite peoples in all the whirls,  Waltrip Rams !  Thank you again for all he encorancent fworks.   You are all just remarkable ! ! !  Uou hsay that I am an insperations, but truth be told,  ALL YALL ARE THE INPERATIONS, I am mearly the product of the the insperatiinon that you all are, of the folks I have amired and try  to imulate over the coures of a liftime.  Would not exist were not for you...though again I say thanks to you all.

     I know that most of you have have trauma and heartbeak and medicals problems in your lives, most of yall have been there and bak, so I'm not unique, just ever gratfule to my Waltirp family.  And we have Jackie to thank for putting all in touch again, and for Beverly for stepping up to cary on with what Jackie started.  

      Because of youse youts, I will avail myselt to whatever therepy recommended, to the level that even Mrs. Simpson would be proud of me.  My beloved has working with me since I got home frm the 2nd servery, I coudlnt speak at all, or type or even write my name, thanks Diane and some steroids , look and me now... "The quik brouns fox jumpes over the lazy dogs back"  "how now brown cow" etc. 

    Diane has some speeck therepy books from her 40 years of teaching, and I being homeschoolkwed all over the home.  And how about this, the teacher even bakes me cookies and cakes and stuff, and I even get to kiss the teacher from time to time.  Quite a change from 75 years ago hey what! 

     My fine motor skills are gone, not that they were so fine in the first place, cant feel what is in my hands, so I drop a lot of stuff.  Me and the spatula are no longer friends.  I can still fry an egg, but as I explaned to Diane,  "blackend food is now cool".   No multitasking for sure.  Multitakinging for me is trying to work the remorte contorl, or even trying to find it.

     Is it spring yet?   Wverything up here is buding out like crazy, bud.  Got our first bluebonnet stating to bloom and indian paint brushing.  Been raining off and on since this morning sometime, whenever that was.

    I have 6 Radiation treatments behine me now,  Doc says it will get worse befoer it gets any bettere.  I might have to use a walker or even a wheel chair, and at the  least a cane.   Well...Thanks to Daine, whe have two wherechair, two walkers, one with wheels and one without, incase I feel like roughing it.  Got 3 caines on my kneescoothers oh and my "das boot", I dont thing will much help, but got it just in case it is needed.

    I hingt I have 14 more Rad trestments to go, so guess we will see what we will see, eh what.   Yesterday, saturday, I felt bad, mad, and sad all at the same time.  Hate that feeling.  Today, I feel much better, yea!  and no drugs involvesd at all.

    Ok, time to deplane...Thank to all of youse youts for encoragment and prayers, couldnt have done it without youse.  Typing all of this is a great therepy believe it or not.  Some the words I recogize as mispelled, and some of them I go back and correct, and some I cant figure out whithout Dianes help.  She is in H tounds at church with her and mom and dad amd will heve lunch whith them.

    So, till we meet again, "happy trails"...

Keep the sun at your six and the Son in your lives...

Your frien and frankinbrain, Cephus R Blesses esq...  

Marcie English (Nolan)

Thanks for sharing your lives on this forum. I enjoy reading about your adventures, life celebrations and “remember when” stories that are recalled. Some, less “Ram Tough” than others, and their amazing spouses  remain in my prayers. (You know who you are!) It also helps keep the Waltrip Class of 1964 legacy alive and reminds me to contribute to scholarship and sports uniform needs of the current students. Stay safe everyone, You are loved. Marcie