Page 45 - Lubbock Senior Link Magazine Summer 2022 - Online Magazine

FIRST RESPONDERS

be sold, so they gave boxes of them to the firemen. I
reaped the benefits of my father's hard work (although
they were a bit smoky), but I have never since sunk my
teeth into another ice cream sandwich that doesn't take
me back to that time. Lastly, I can't just speak about
my dad in this because behind the scenes was my
mother, loving me and my sister, cooking, cleaning,
washing, and most of all supporting my dad and our
family so Dad could go out and do his job. Thank you
to my father and mother for all you have done for me
and Sheri. I love you both!" My wife, Pearl:
There's not much I can add to what my husband
My daughter, Sheri Organ:
and children have said. Yes, it was trying at
"Growing up, I was always proud to tell people my times—like every time something broke, he was
dad was a firefighter. Not all kids have dads who have always at the fire station—but it was a great life.
such ‘cool’ jobs. I have a lot of good memories of the I'm proud to be the wife of a firefighter. Larry's
times we spent at the fire station. We would play ping greatest attributes are his love of God, loyalty,
pong in the apparatus room, drink cokes from glass and integrity!
bottles out of a very old coke machine, and the sound
of the alarm going off for a fire was something that,
even as an adult, I cannot explain—it was a bit of a
rush! I have always been proud of what my dad did
all those years, but it wasn't until I got older
that I could understand the true sacrifices he
made being a fireman. When I was younger,
I knew that daddy was not always going to
be able to make it to certain events. Holidays
were not always celebrated on the actual
holiday; instead, it was celebrated when
we could all be together. The time away
from his family could not have been easy
on him; then you add in the emotional and
mental tolls a job like that has on a person.
I was just a proud daughter of a Lubbock
firefighter, the daughter who got to have a
true hero for a dad!"

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