I didn't know Kenneth well but he did like to tease me because I had to stand on a stack of books so I could open my locker. My husband worked with Kenneth at 3M. I asked if he had any information I could write down. He said Kenneth went to Florence State [now UNA] and later joined the Air Force. He was a missile machanic at a Stragic Air Command in Wyoming. He married a girl from there. When he got out of the Air Force he moved to Decatur. He worked at 3M until he retired. He and Arlene had 3 boys. Kenneth had a heart transplant and was improving greatly. They started cutting back on the medicine for his transplant and his heart rejected the transplant. He died suddenly. Carlyine and Sammy Pierce
As a youngster,Kenneth was a very good boy.I never heard him say a bad or hurtful word. He was the only child of a single Mom who kept him on a short leash, but he was a good guy by nature and never gave his Mom cause for alarm. He grew up on 5th Ave SE and I lived on 3rd Ave SE, so we started to school in the old, old Gordon Bibb school, and we were friends and classmates for the first 5 years(Nichols, Comer, Ware, Holland, and Dinsmore--all first rate teachers). We were not as close in junior high and high school because of the way they scrambled the home rooms, but we remained friends. In high school, Kenneth's Mom allowed him to get a motor scooter. One year he and I rode that scooter all over town trying to sell magazines for the senior class trip. We discovered that people usually only buy the magazines from relatives or neighborhood kids, but we tried.
We both went to UNA, but he was a Keller Hall man and I was a Florence Hall man, so again we were friends, but we continued to go our separate ways, and I never saw him again after graduation. I often wondered what happened to him in later life, so I thank Carlyine for her note. Kenneth was a good boy, so I know he had to be a good man. RFA
Carlyine Gibson (Pierce)
I didn't know Kenneth well but he did like to tease me because I had to stand on a stack of books so I could open my locker. My husband worked with Kenneth at 3M. I asked if he had any information I could write down. He said Kenneth went to Florence State [now UNA] and later joined the Air Force. He was a missile machanic at a Stragic Air Command in Wyoming. He married a girl from there. When he got out of the Air Force he moved to Decatur. He worked at 3M until he retired. He and Arlene had 3 boys. Kenneth had a heart transplant and was improving greatly. They started cutting back on the medicine for his transplant and his heart rejected the transplant. He died suddenly. Carlyine and Sammy Pierce
Richard Allen
As a youngster,Kenneth was a very good boy.I never heard him say a bad or hurtful word. He was the only child of a single Mom who kept him on a short leash, but he was a good guy by nature and never gave his Mom cause for alarm.He grew up on 5th Ave SE and I lived on 3rd Ave SE, so we started to school in the old, old Gordon Bibb school, and we were friends and classmates for the first 5 years(Nichols, Comer, Ware, Holland, and Dinsmore--all first rate teachers). We were not as close in junior high and high school because of the way they scrambled the home rooms, but we remained friends. In high school, Kenneth's Mom allowed him to get a motor scooter. One year he and I rode that scooter all over town trying to sell magazines for the senior class trip. We discovered that people usually only buy the magazines from relatives or neighborhood kids, but we tried.
We both went to UNA, but he was a Keller Hall man and I was a Florence Hall man, so again we were friends, but we continued to go our separate ways, and I never saw him again after graduation.
I often wondered what happened to him in later life, so I thank Carlyine for her note. Kenneth was a good boy, so I know he had to be a good man. RFA