Jack Abel, 1953,
Buckeye Highway Patrol, *suicide spinner knob...choice*
Roy Rogers was softly
playing in air conditioned home of Verylene Meck, Mrs. Mayor
of Buckeye. After she showed off a keep sake from her hope
chest, we got down to business. I had stopped by to pick up this original
black and white photo of this cop that was haunting me since I first saw him
about a year ago. Verlyne and I worked on the Buckeye Cook Book
cover last summer. Verlyne has published Then & Now Buckeye
and Images of America Buckeye. I am truly a lucky person to be able to
scan some of these originals that she so kindly lets me take and return.
She even sends me home with a loaf of homemade bread.
This was the ribbon
cutting ceremony on May 19th last month. I cut up some fruit, brought
thousands of donuts and represented the Mainstreet Coalition. It was
interacting with the community of Buckeye, creating a design ... Oh
really NOW! I have already posted about this on the
Benbow Veterans Memorial Dedication. Try to keep up.
This is the Ribbon
Cutting Post because the project is substantially complete. We are still
designing the back side of the black granite wall. That is where Jack
Abel can be seen. Well, I hope Charlene Powers will consider
it.
Buckeye Honor Roll, Billy F. Meck is in the upper left corner
Charlene Powers,
another member of Mainstreet gave me the Honor Roll to copy and scan for image
ideas for the plaque. I feel like I did a great deed when I scanned all
the pages of these men and woman of Buckeye who served our country.
The more I learn about this Town Buckeye, the more I am dedicated to it's
evolution and expansion. She did say she would kill me if I lost the
Honor Roll binder.
The names inscribed
on the black granite wall are all the names in the Honor Roll binder. As
I scanned the night away in my laundery room, I had such an appreciation of
being a helping hand in making this Benbow Veterans Memorial a reality. *so
what is wrong with a scanner there?* You know even Mrs. Benbow
showed up at the Ribbon Cutting, looking cute as a bug in her red cowboy boots.
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Jeffrey and I
designed this for Mainstreet. This image will be etched in bronze on a
24"x24" plaque to go on the wall.
Helen and Bruce
Heiden dear family friends of PVT Allen Makin
Allen Makin, born in
Buckeye in 1946 and died in Vietnam in 1967, he is just one of the names etched
into the new monument. The Makins are sitting on their bench that they
bought for the Memorial. While I was inhaling my 5th donut that morning,
I heard lots of stories like how scary it was to be in the line of fire.
This elderly fellow got a tear in his eye as he was telling
me his story.
