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Senior Senior Linda Denton

Guns Up,

Fun’s Up,

Gmama!

by Shaina Stanton

hen I was asked to write Idalou all her life. She raised four basketball
this article about my children and was married over 25 shoes.
WGrandmama, (aka Gmama), years to Jack Denton. Grandmama When she
I was so excited because I get to share loves traveling and has been from does, we
with so many people how really to Hawaii to New York, from can’t stop
amazing my Grandmama is! Linda Alaska to Florida. She still reads laughing
Fay Johnson Stanton Denton is one of the paper every day and does the because they
the most loving, caring, godly, kind- sudoku puzzle. Grandmama is very look like the
hearted people you will ever meet. competitive at whatever she does and Converse
She loves going to church, watching never likes to lose at anything. shoes I wear
her grandchildren all the time
play basketball, My grandmama’s house now - except
supporting the Idalou is 90% Texas Tech! I it is 60 years
Wildcats, but, most remember going to all later! One
of all, her Texas the Lady Raider games of the most
Tech Lady Raiders when I was little, and memorable
basketball team! my grandmama would things about her is that, after every
have her big bag packed single basketball game that I played,
Grandmama was full of glow sticks, pom whether I did bad or good, my
raised on a farm by poms, coloring books and grandmama would be on the side of
Fay Isom and Ollie candy. We always stood the court with my favorite candy bar
Faye Johnson in up to sing the Red Raider as a reward! I could always count on
Idalou. She grew Matador song and cheer my grandmama being there to support
up as a farm girl for the players as they ran me in anything I was doing!
picking and hoeing out of the tunnel while
cotton. Gmama was we waved our pom poms Holidays with my grandmama
a cheerleader and everywhere. Basketball mean laughing till our stomachs
played basketball is a passion of my hurt! Holidays mean that all the
while in school. grandmama. She could family comes together, and we have
Grandmama graduated from Idalou sit for hours and talk about when she an amazing time playing games
High School in 1961 as valedictorian played basketball, while showing and eating. Cooking is left to my
and has lived within eight miles of me her old basketball uniforms and grandmama because she is the best!

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