Another look in the mirror…
This isn’t really a memory as much as it is a look in the mirror. I knew one grandpa from my birth until he passed away in 1993. The other passed away fifteen years before I was born. I learned a lot of my grandpa Townsend’s story from him. My grandpa Sutton’s story comes from what my dad and my aunt told me. I have a lot in common with both. My grandpa Townsend was a carpenter. I’m by no means a carpenter, but I build things from time to time. What he couldn’t teach me, YouTube has tried, but with many more failures then he experienced. My grandpa Sutton was a maintenance technician, as was my dad, and thus making me a third generation maintenance technician. Grandpa worked at Stokley’s right here in Peru just a block from his house. Both my grandpas were tough men. They worked hard to take care of their families. Both lived ...