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• July 28, 2022

  
  Roy Herman Pearson
  
  
• July 28, 2022

  
  Roy Herman Pearson
  
  
• July 28, 2022

  
  Roy Herman Pearson
  
  
• June 08, 2012

  Things Daddy was and what he taught us. Protector, provider, humble, honest, smart, compassionate, conservative, teacher, counselor, inventor, carpenter, mechanic, caregiver, self-sufficient, mender, gentle, generous, self-taught musician, always looking out for his girls. Kay - My first memory as a child was Daddy mending a little childrenís rocking chair for me. I donít remember where the chair came from but I do remember sitting and watching him weave a new seat out of some type of small rope, probably clothesline rope and then sitting it on the floor and telling me to try it out. I think I was about 2 years old. Daddy could fix anything or make anything work. He could figure out how to do anything or how to do something easier and more efficient. Kay - He taught himself to play a lot of different instruments but he loved the banjo the most. I loved hearing him play the guitar too. Gail - After Kay had left home, Daddy helped me tear down the living room wall and move it so that he could make my bedroom bigger, all in one day after mama had gone to bed from working third shift and she never heard a thing. Daddy was very protective of us. I couldnít really understand why as a child. Now, as an adult I can understand a lot of the reasons why we didnít get to do a lot of things or go a lot of places. I remember when we wanted to go swimming and after a lot of begging, we went maybe once. Then he dug a hole in the back yard and built a pool out of cement blocks. Then not only could we swim safely at home, we were also everybodyís best friend in the summertime. A few years ago, not too long ago, a bird built a nest in the front yard. Daddy sat up a video camera pointed at the nest so he could watch the eggs hatch and the baby birds. One day he heard the mama bird frantically chirping and saw a black snake in the nest trying to eat the baby birds. Daddy got a BB rifle and killed the snake and saved the baby birds. Daddy was a quiet man. He didnít talk much. He never raised his voice. But when he did say something, you listened, because you knew it was important. Gail ñ I remember my first bicycle. It was built by Daddy from 3 or 4 old bicycles. It meant more to me than having a shiny new bicycle. He taught us that you didnít have to have the best of everything to be happy. Kay - When I was 4 or 5 Daddy put a $20 bill between 2 coke bottles standing top to top and said if I could get the bill out without touching the bottles or making them fall I could have it. The first try, I jerked it real fast and got it without toppling the bottles! I was so happy. But I knew it wasnít right for me to keep the money because I knew it was almost a whole weekís wages for him, so I gave it back. Kay ñ My first bicycle was when I was 5 years old. It was so big I couldnít reach the pedals if I sat on the seat. Daddy showed me how to ride standing up and I rode it that way until I grew big enough to sit on the seat. Kay ñ He taught us to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle long before they came up with a name for it. I think the reason I write small is when I was in school, learning long division and a problem would take up a half sheet of paper, he showed me how to write smaller and get several numbers on the same line, so that we could save paper. Kay ñ When I got engaged, I think Daddy had already planned on some land we could buy. He asked his boss to sell us some land and then he helped us build our house. We built the house in the evenings and on Saturdays and lots of people told us we did it quicker than a contractor could do it. Gail - When I decided to go to cosmetology school, daddy found a used chair and sink and actually sat it up in the house so that I could do peopleís hair at home. Kay & Gail -For Christmas we almost always got something homemade out of wood and it meant more than any store bought gift. We have lots of pieces of furniture and keepsakes made by his hands. Gabby & Dylan (grandkids) - When we stayed with grandpa and grandma, I remember he sat up a tent in the living room and made a fort. In the summertime, he and grandma would set up a campfire. Grandpa would whittle out sticks and we would roast hot dogs and marshmallows on them. He always had brownies beside where he sat and the first thing we would do every time we came to see him was get a brownie from him. We would always build something when we came for the summer. He taught us how and helped us build bird houses, stools, planters, anything out of wood. Kay & Gail - Daddy played checkers with us on a checkerboard he made out of a piece of wood and old coke bottle caps for checkers. He would cheat us playing checkers in a way that we could catch him doing it, and if we didnít catch him, he would tell us he did and let us win anyway. We always wanted ketchup with our French fries, so one year he bought us each a bottle of Ketchup and wrapped it for Christmas. Daddy never whipped us, although we may have deserved a few. Daddy always taught us a life lesson instead. The knowledge that we had disappointed him was worse than any whipping we could have gotten. I think the reason I love the Andy Griffith show so much is because it reminds me so much of Daddy. He used the same philosophy with us as children. We were never punished, we learned a lesson instead. Daddy had a way of teaching you something without you even realizing it. Lots of times he would play dumb if you asked him how to do something. Then somehow in the end he made you feel like you had figured it out all yourself when in reality he told you exactly how to do it without really saying it. People say you learn from your mistakes. Daddy always taught us to learn from other peopleís mistakes so that hopefully we wouldnít have to learn the hard way. Heíd see or hear something on the news about something terrible happening to someone and he would always talk to us and explain how or why things happened and how to try to avoid them. Tara (niece) ñ I remember helping Herman make wooden whirly gigs, pushing me in the swing and scaring me into ìbeing goodî by threatening to lock me up in the basement. Heather ñ He used to crack pecans for hours with his vice grips that he always carried in his pocket and feed them to me. I canít remember the reason why, but one time he built a machine to place pegs in furniture to hold them together and he named it Heather, probably because I was there when he was working and always wanted to help. He made me a hope chest for my 18th birthday. He hated getting shots, but he was so gentle giving shots to the cows and dogs they didnít even know they got one.
  
  
• July 28, 2022

  
  Roy Herman Pearson