Jerry (Frank) Forsythe:  

Was first baby born in Henderson, North Carolina in 1959. My parents and my brother Jeff and I, moved to the Washington DC area when I was very young, early 1960's. My father was a DC policeman and my mother a home maker. My sister Karen came along in 1963 while we lived in Seat Pleasant, MD. We moved to Suitland for three years, then Forestville, where my parents lived until their deaths. Mom died in 1995 and Dad in 2006. They are buried in Cheltenham Veteran's Cemetery in Cheltenham, MD. Forestville, Maryland was in the Suitland High District but I attended Crossland High for vocational training. I was in the electronics program. Mr. Pyle was out for a year with a heart attack and the program was never the same. In some ways I felt like I missed out on a lot of high school stuff because I lived so far away. After high school I worked at PEPCo for about a year, until the drive downtown Washington, DC drove me south. I moved to Henderson, NC in 1978 and looked for a new start. I worked at Currin's Minute Mart, with my Grandfather, for a short time as well as Wilson Electric. Then in 1979 I became a policeman in the City of Henderson, NC. I attended Carey Baptist Church where I met my wife Cary, in the choir loft. We were married in January 1981. After 2 ½ years with the Henderson Police Department I started to look for a bigger and more exciting location to continue my police career. In November 1981, we moved back to Maryland where I was hired by the Prince George¿s County Police. The ironic thing is I had two things I swore I would never do¿ one was being a policeman like my fa...Expand for more