LIKE SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS, GUY WAS A WEST TOWN KID.SEEMS LIKE ALL OF US KNEW EVERYONE ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN AND WERE CLOSE. I REMEMBER GUY PLAYING BASEBALL AT THE BALL FIELD BEHIND THE FIRE STATION.THE NEIGHBORHOOD GUYS PLAYED BALL AND US GIRLS CHEERED THEM ON. AS WE GREW OLDER, I WASN'T AS CLOSE TO GUY AS WHEN WE WERE YOUNG BUT I COULD SEE THAT ALL OF HIS FINE QUALITIES AS A YOUNG BOY WERE STILL THERE AS A YOUNG MAN. GUY HAD A LONG ILLNESS FIGHTING A BRAIN TUMOR AND A FEW YEARS AGO WENT TO BE WITH HIS MAKER. WONDER IF HIM, TAD BLACK, JIMMY ALLEN, AND JIMMY DON ARE PLAYING ON THE FIELD OF DREAMS. DOUGLAS ANN LIVINGSTON
I did not get to know Guy until we were in the 11th grade, but once I got to know him we became lifelong friends. Guy was a good athlete,lettering in both baseball and football, where he was the starting defensive end on the TVC championship team in 1958. Guy dated, and later married a wonderful girl named Pat Lee, Class of '60 I think, and they had two daughters. Pat predeceased Guy.
After high school Guy attended UNA for a couple of years before transferring to The University of Alabama where he earned an engineering degree. He worked for TVA at a number of nuclear power plants during his career.
Guy was an avid hunter and fisherman his whole life. He would get up at 2:00 am on cold winter mornings to go and sit in a freezing duck blind, and he loved it. One early morning, when the sun came up and began to warm things up, Guy feel asleep on a rock,and missed the only flight of ducks to come in that day, and we never let him forget it.
In high school I think Guy's best friend was Charles Henson, but he was also close to his other Sunday School mate, Steve Stovall. At UNA, Steve, Guy, and and I, along with a number of other boys from Decatur, lived in a small men's dorm called Florence Hall. Other residents from DHS inclued Dan and Don Stanford, Wendall Hill, Marvin Herron, Thomas Walker, Noah Srygley and others whose names I can't recall right now.
Guy and Steve were good natured hell raisers and the the ringleaders of many practical jokes and scams visited on the heads of many unsuspecting dormmates, each other, but especially innocent incomming freshmen, for several years. I have written several stories about their exploits--too long for here, but email me if you would like to see them. Guy never had a better friend than Steve who looked after him as his health declined. Guy was a good man and a good friend, and we miss him.
Graveside service for Guy Winston French, 62, of Decatur will be Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004, at 11 a.m. at Liberty Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Craig Carlisle officiating and Shelton Funeral Home directing.
Mr. French died Monday, Jan. 26, 2004, at Huntsville Hospital. He was born May 15, 1941, in Decatur to Price Irvin French and Grace P. Henson French.
Mr. French is survived by two daughters, Crescent French Smith of Tuscaloosa and Sabrina French Porter of Seattle; and one brother, Buddy French of Somerville.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Ducks Unlimited.
Douglas Ann Thrasher (Livingston . )
LIKE SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS, GUY WAS A WEST TOWN KID.SEEMS LIKE ALL OF US KNEW EVERYONE ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN AND WERE CLOSE. I REMEMBER GUY PLAYING BASEBALL AT THE BALL FIELD BEHIND THE FIRE STATION.THE NEIGHBORHOOD GUYS PLAYED BALL AND US GIRLS CHEERED THEM ON. AS WE GREW OLDER, I WASN'T AS CLOSE TO GUY AS WHEN WE WERE YOUNG BUT I COULD SEE THAT ALL OF HIS FINE QUALITIES AS A YOUNG BOY WERE STILL THERE AS A YOUNG MAN. GUY HAD A LONG ILLNESS FIGHTING A BRAIN TUMOR AND A FEW YEARS AGO WENT TO BE WITH HIS MAKER. WONDER IF HIM, TAD BLACK, JIMMY ALLEN, AND JIMMY DON ARE PLAYING ON THE FIELD OF DREAMS.
DOUGLAS ANN LIVINGSTON
Richard Allen
I did not get to know Guy until we were in the 11th grade, but once I got to know him we became lifelong friends. Guy was a good athlete,lettering in both baseball and football, where he was the starting defensive end on the TVC championship team in 1958.Guy dated, and later married a wonderful girl named Pat Lee, Class of '60 I think, and they had two daughters. Pat predeceased Guy.
After high school Guy attended UNA for a couple of years before transferring to The University of Alabama where he earned an engineering degree. He worked for TVA at a number of nuclear power plants during his career.
Guy was an avid hunter and fisherman his whole life. He would get up at 2:00 am on cold winter mornings to go and sit in a freezing duck blind, and he loved it. One early morning, when the sun came up and began to warm things up, Guy feel asleep on a rock,and missed the only flight of ducks to come in that day, and we never let him forget it.
In high school I think Guy's best friend was Charles Henson, but he was also close to his other Sunday School mate, Steve Stovall. At UNA, Steve, Guy, and and I, along with a number of other boys from Decatur, lived in a small men's dorm called Florence Hall. Other residents from DHS inclued Dan and Don Stanford, Wendall Hill, Marvin Herron, Thomas Walker, Noah Srygley and others whose names I can't recall right now.
Guy and Steve were good natured hell raisers and the the ringleaders of many practical jokes and scams visited on the heads of many unsuspecting dormmates, each other, but especially innocent incomming freshmen, for several years. I have written several stories about their exploits--too long for here, but email me if you would like to see them.
Guy never had a better friend than Steve who looked after him as his health declined.
Guy was a good man and a good friend, and we miss him.
Bob Thomas
Graveside service for Guy Winston French, 62, of Decatur will be Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004, at 11 a.m. at Liberty Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Craig Carlisle officiating and Shelton Funeral Home directing.
Mr. French died Monday, Jan. 26, 2004, at Huntsville Hospital. He was born May 15, 1941, in Decatur to Price Irvin French and Grace P. Henson French.
Mr. French is survived by two daughters, Crescent French Smith of Tuscaloosa and Sabrina French Porter of Seattle; and one brother, Buddy French of Somerville.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Ducks Unlimited.