Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 99, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 12, 1993 Page: 3 of 48
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By DON HENDRIX
Facing life with a smile
Back in February 1988, I went
out past Old Israel Road to enter-
view an old man about his camillias
for the upcoming gardening pages
of the Enterprise. I’d heard tell he
had quite a collection, and he had
been passing them out to people all
over town as sort of a friendship
token.
The man was in his eighties and
the last thing I expected was to
have to quicken my pace to keep up
with him. I’d rarely seen anyone so
enthusiastic. He flittled like a hum-
ming bird about his expansive lawn
from bush to bush, eagerly describ-
ing his camillias and giving me
more unique facts than I had time
to jot down. I’d be taking a picture
of one type of Camilla when he’d
already be across the yard talking
about the next one.
After this hop-skip-and-junp
tour, my notes needed to be filled
in on some of the facts I had missed
the first time, so he invited me in to
"sit a spell.”
Once inside, with a captive
audience, he began to pull out
memorabilia of his life — things
that had nothing to do with camil-
lias — but I politely sat and looked
and listened. Besides, although I
really didn’t have time for it that
day, some of it perked my interest.
There were the family photographs,
1916 copies of Lone Scout
magazines, awards he had recieved
from scouting, photgraphs of scout
groups, and some items I couldn’t
fully appreciate—you had to have
walked in his shoes.
It was time to leave, but no, not
before I’d seen his woods trail!
Years ago, I learned, he had built
a trail through the woods in back of
his place for scout groups to tour,
and along the path there were signs
erected descriping the various types
of trees and other plants alone the
way. He was an expert on this sub-
ject and he couldn’t imagine not
sharing that knowledge with others.
Including me.
All this time, there was always
the hint of a smile in his face, like
he was hiding some little secret, but
I think the secret was that he liked
everything around him, and he
liked life in general.
He didn’t figure he had very
much of it left, he told me, espe-
cially since he had been dignosed
as having lukemia, but he was
going to hang on as long as he
could.
Well, that knocked me over! He
didn’t announce this fact with any
warning or theatrics, just casually
in passing as if he were comment-
ing on no more than a cloudy sky
on the horizon.
He’d already lost his wife some
years before, and now this. Sudden-
ly my own problems seemed petty.
Yet he seemed to be less concerned
about it than I was.
There was always that smile. My
first impression was that he craved
talking to people, anyone, because
of a lack of friends, but, in that
respect, I was way off base. He
merely genuinely liked people, I’m
convinced, and he honestly enjoyed
the world around him with op-
timism, because he loved life.
Local aboard for Navy ceremony
NORFOLK, VA. - Navy
Fireman Apprentice Michael W.
Moczygemba, son of Sharon A.
Hutchison of Livingston, was
recently aboard the frigate USS
Lockwood, homeported in Long
Beach, Calif, during the 23-year-
old ship’s decommissioning
ceremony.
USS Lockwood was named after
Vice Adm. Charles A. Lockwood, a
1912 graduate of the Naval Ac-
sademy who was assigned as the
Commander of Pacific Fleet sub-
marines during World War II. The
ship was commissioned December
5,1970.
During its service life, the
KNOX-class frigate participated in
multiple Western Pacific and In-
dian Ocean deployments, as well as
in operations from Guam to the
Persian Gulf, and from the Aleu-
tians to Australia. Lockwood has
the distinction of being the first
ship to fire a Harpoon missile,
which is a medium range, anti-ship
launched from surface ships, sub-
marines or aircraft.
The Navy is decommissioning
many older ships and replacing
them with fewer but more capable
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smaller Navy/Marine Corps team
to operate in forward, littoral
regions from the sea.
The 1990 graduate of Stone
Mountain High School of Stone
Mountain, Ga., joined the Navy in
October 1992.
Well, of life, he had plenty. He
lived to be ninety, and those years
were full. And between our first
meeting and when he died last
week, I saw W.L. Brough many
times, and there was always that
warm, gracious smile and always a
good word for everyone around
him. It will be missed.
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