Lucretia "Louie" Patterson (Clayton)

I remember that Brent was always a fun guy to be in class with.... Does anyone know if this is our classmate?  It does say he grew up in South Gate?  
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-20/local/me-37351_1_antelope-valley-chapter

This comes from "Doin the Stuff" Vineyard National Youth Conference in 1992, a year before Brent's death. Brent tells the story of how his life changed when he got saved and dropped out of the PhD. program at UCLA. (audio has a minor 3-5 second gap)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhcHaBofT4M&feature=relmfu

Brent Rue is remembered by his wife, Happy (part 1)
Happy shares about the difficult reality of living with illness after traveling the world doing healing conferences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAv7nMYyUqc

Terry Beeler

That's Brent .One of my best friends from Jr, high and thru high school.Kind of lost track of him after he married Happy and found religion.He had a great personality and a lot of fun to hang with.

Lucretia "Louie" Patterson (Clayton)

Thanks Terry, for the update.  He was a fun guy ... I do remember that :)  Sounds like he did many good things with his life.... R.I.P., Brent.

Marv Ladd

Spent alotta great yrs. w/Brent.Whata fun guy 2 B around.Brent was always so tall he blocked out Z sun.Met him N Z 2nd grade when a short friend of mine(wont mention his name)tugged on Brents shirt(Laughing)& said hows Z weather up there big guy.Brent spits N Z air & says, its about 2 rain.End of smile.Brent & I were just about inseperable 4 Z next 20 yrs.Conveniently he lived 3 short blocks away.He always had a ton of ideas of things 2 do.He got me N more trouble,w/out getting himself N trouble.By the way I never won a spit fight on Z swings against him.Probably cause he had a bad case of asthma.Some of Z kinder Nicknames he had 4 me were Dirty Rackersnack,,Mafrin,& .Some of Z nick names I can mention that I called him were string,,cow lick,stick,& mole hair sam.He joined Z marines outa high school & intro'd me 2 alotta new service friends which I still have.He married a beautiful girl named Gladice,we called her Happy.He became pasteur of a church N Lancaster,& lived happily everafter till he got cancer.He fought it,but N Z end it spread & took him.Thanks 4 all Z fun Brent

Lucretia "Louie" Patterson (Clayton)

Great info Marv, thanks so much for sharing!! 

Lu