Jerry Smith

where I lived.

Before leaving this section, let me say that Trent’s first cousins of Mitch Butler and Savannah Konter were two in the family who provided me more pleasure than I can tell while participating in athletics at Calhoun High. How can I overlook another first cousin, a friend at our house and of school days, Chance Hicks?

It was the already- mentioned Donna Fuquea Couch of Donna’s Hallmark Shop who entered my life as a student and as a friend through my daughter Summer Mills. But the most interesting story involves the beginning relationship of Trent’s parents.

What was the story of Trent’s parents?

With apologies for slight discrepancies, let me relate the story Larry Thomason and Janet Fuquea about which they and I still laugh: It seems that before they dated, they would meet each morning going in opposite directions on their way to work. A beautiful young Janet would have her hand on the top of her steering wheel and would simply raise her index finger as a greeting to the young man meeting her. I don’t know the details but we all know the rest of the story. It is a warm and loving story.

It would be wrong of me not to mention my first acquaintance with Larry Thomason. Larry was a senior starting end on Bob Cox’s Calhoun High football team when Cox came to Calhoun as head coach in 1958. The Coach Billy Carter’s previous season had been less than successful with a 2- 7- 1 record. It should be noted that team was not really “stepped on” by those teams to which they lost.

Larry Thomason started on a team that indicated good things were to come. Back- to- back 0- 0 ties with Rockmart and West Rome were highlights of the season. From that day, Larry Thomason has been a part of my life. The measure of Trent’s life A man’s life can be measured by many marks or characteristics. After watching all the pictorial presentations on the screen at Trinity Baptist Church and seeing the multitude of pictures