Richard Box
Posted by Roylene Chandler Davis on January 1, 2009, 8:32 pm
Message modified by administrator Badger January 2, 2009, 10:38 am
THE CLASS OF 1957 WILL REMEMBER RICHARD BOX BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE, OTHER THOSE WHO LIVED IN MCCAMEY....JUST WANTED TO LET THOSE WHO REMEMBER HIM THAT HE PASSED AWAY TODAY....HE WAS SUCH A GOOD MAN.....MY BROTHER RAYFORD MCILHANEY AND I OF COURSE WENT THROUGH SCHOOL TOGETHER SO WE WERE IN THE SAME CLASS AND WE WENT TO SCHOOL WITH RICHARD IN ABOUT THE 6TH AND 7TH GRADE AND THEN HE MOVED TO CRANE.....LATER YEARS OF COURSE HE HAD THE RICHARD BOX FUNERAL HOME BASED IN CRANE, BUT HAD ONE HERE ALSO.....RAYFORD AND I REMARKED TO HIM WHEN OUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY THAT "WHEN WE WERE KIDS GROWING UP, WE WOULD NOT HAVE EVER THOUGH THAT HE WOULD SOMEDAY BURY OUR MOTHER AND MY CHILDREN'S FATHER WHO DIED IN 1990." RICHARD AGREED THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVED IT THEN EITHER. RICHARD WAS JUST AS KIND A PERSON AS A YOUNG BOY AS HE WAS WHEN HE GREW UP......HE WAS A VERY SWEET PERSON...LATER RICHARD AND HIS WIFE JOAN DID A LOT TO HELP THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WHEN I WAS MANAGER DURING MY 8 YEARS THERE AS THEY WERE MEMBERS...THEY FURNISHED DECORATIONS FOR BANQUETS AND ANY DONATIONS WE NEEDED....JUST THOUGHT SOME OF YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT HIM.....I THINK HE WILL BE BURIED IN HAMILTON TEXAS....IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED I'LL GET THE OBIT FROM TOMORROW'S PAPER.......THEY CAN LET ME KNOW....ROYLENE MCILHANEY DAVIS
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