We have learned that Tom Gannaway passed away recently.

Tom was a member of our class, attending DB with us through our sophomore year.  He transferred to Baylor School in Chattanooga and completed his junior and senior years there.

Until recently he lived in the Sacramento CA area.  He recently returned to the Kingsport area and was in touch with classmates.

Jane found an obituary for Pinky, shown to the right.  Click on it to view a more readable version

As Rusty and Chip commented in their notes, Pinky was a good friend and he will be missed.  In our pre-DB days, I remember him as an active player in Fairacres / Linville St / Watauga St neighborhood activities such as football games in the vacant lot next to Bob Reagan's home on Belmeade, and softball games in the back yard at Bill & George Hutchins' home on Watauga.  I smile at the memory of stopping by the grape vines in the back yard of the Gannaway family's Watauga St home in the summer and sampling the yummy sweet grapes that thrived there.

I cherish these good memories and many others from Pinky and our class ... and miss all of those who are no longer with us.

As Barbara  Coughenour would remind us, "God Bless us every one!!"