Just have to tell the Walkers how beautiful Jones is and we're so happy to be able to watch him grow and not have to drive to North Carolina! thank you again ,Ann. His great grandmother Lala is up there watching the gang and great Papa. what do your grands call you and Al? Now the purpose of tonights blog is to tell you everything I can remember about my father and your grandfather, Curtis Echols Rippetoe Sr. He was a handsome man who stood straight and tall his entire life. I never saw him in any thing but white shirt aand tie . Even when he went hunting (he did take the tie off) Curtie can tell you more about that because he went with him. He was a Baptist and graduate of a business school un Charleston. He was a bookkeeper and auditor all his life. worked for Owens Illinois Glass in Kanawha City during the depression. a coal mine and ended as Auditor for the state of WVa. I worked for him the year I met Bill. He was very quiet and I remember making him smile by dancing and being crazy. Either with Lala or a friend in neighborhood. He loved cars and his father George Rippetoe and sons (Curtis and Willow) had an agency in Richwood, W.Va. Wish I could remember the name of the man who knocked the props out from under them. don't think Daddy ever trusted a person the rest of his life. soooo my next blog will be on his wife , our beloved mother Anna (Nana). Come on Rippetoe blood ---come forth!! wishing all health and happiness for now love you all to pieces Ruthie