Roger Acuff:
CLASS OF 1969
Dongola High SchoolClass of 1969
Dongola, IL
Roger's Story
First I am disabled and then retired. That is a very long story. Very few people know or understand. Right now on so many medications that I cannot remember 5 minutes ago little own high school. Bonnie(Helton) definitely is a saint for all we have gone thru and we still keep trying to live a normal life. Which is getting more difficult all the time.
As you can tell I have not changed much. I still say what I feel and let the chips fall wherever. If I could I would change somethings in the past but content with most decisions I have made but mostly no regrets. And as always really never did care how anyone perceived me.
My dad probably knew me as well as any one and one day the hospice nurse had been coming by for about a week and had asked Dad about me as a person and his answer was" He is the one that will wal...Expand for more
k thru hell and back and no one will ever know and he will not tell them." And then he told me something else I will never forget " I always see you in jeans and boots and that is what I want you to wear for visitation and funeral and I want you to do the last thing on this earth and you will be one of the pallbearers." So if anyone ever sees me at a funeral home I still will have on a pair of jeans and boots. If that was good enough for him them it is good enough for anyone.
I am glad that I got some of his toughness. He was on oxygen for 13 years and at that time no one had ever lived that long at that time on oxygen all the time but he had to many things he lived for. He got to see and play with his great grandson. Now I just try for one more day each day and after that I will take each day as it gets here.
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