I BELIEVE DONNY CAME TO ALMOST EVERY REUNION WE HAD IN THE PAST TWENTY YEARS. HE AND HIS WIFE BARBARA WERE VERY NICE, FRIENDLY PEOPLE. YOU COULD ALWAYS SPOT DONNY IN A LARGE CROWD. HE WAS THE TALLESTS. I REMEMBER WHEN HIS FOLKS HAD THE MUSIC STORE DOWN BY THE YOUTH CENTER IN ROCKVILLE. HIS DAD WAS A RAILROAD CONDUCTOR AND HIS MOTHER RAN THE STORE. DONNY WAS ALWAYS IN AND OUT. THEN HIS FOLKS MOVED THE STORE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE AND MRS. NOBLITT HAD HER ANTIQUES IN THE BACK OF THE STORE AND THE MUSIC IN THE FRONT. MR. NOBLITT HAD RETIRED AT THIS TIME AND SPENT MORE TIME IN THE MUSIC PART OF THE STORE. DONNY WAS USUALLY AT BASKETBALL PRACTICE, BUT ALSO HELPED OUT IN THE STORE. WE WILL MISS HIM AT OUR REUNIONS.
Donny was my cousin. Uncle Homer and Aunt Phila were so proud of him. He was inducted into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame and Retired as Superintendent of Greater Jasper School District. His son Andy now coaches Baseball at Jasper. What I remember was his smile and kindred spirit. I also am proud of cousin Don.
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Mary Catherine Barnes (Overpeck) (1958)
I BELIEVE DONNY CAME TO ALMOST EVERY REUNION WE HAD IN THE PAST TWENTY YEARS. HE AND HIS WIFE BARBARA WERE VERY NICE, FRIENDLY PEOPLE. YOU COULD ALWAYS SPOT DONNY IN A LARGE CROWD. HE WAS THE TALLESTS. I REMEMBER WHEN HIS FOLKS HAD THE MUSIC STORE DOWN BY THE YOUTH CENTER IN ROCKVILLE. HIS DAD WAS A RAILROAD CONDUCTOR AND HIS MOTHER RAN THE STORE. DONNY WAS ALWAYS IN AND OUT. THEN HIS FOLKS MOVED THE STORE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE AND MRS. NOBLITT HAD HER ANTIQUES IN THE BACK OF THE STORE AND THE MUSIC IN THE FRONT. MR. NOBLITT HAD RETIRED AT THIS TIME AND SPENT MORE TIME IN THE MUSIC PART OF THE STORE. DONNY WAS USUALLY AT BASKETBALL PRACTICE, BUT ALSO HELPED OUT IN THE STORE. WE WILL MISS HIM AT OUR REUNIONS.Jon Bonomo (1974)
Donny was my cousin. Uncle Homer and Aunt Phila were so proud of him. He was inducted into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame and Retired as Superintendent of Greater Jasper School District. His son Andy now coaches Baseball at Jasper. What I remember was his smile and kindred spirit.I also am proud of cousin Don.