Jeff and Wilbur Blackburn were two of my closest friends during Spring Street and later Grady. They lived in Ansley Park just around the corner from each other while I lived a short distance away in Sherwood Forest. In Grady, the three of us played basketball hundreds of afternoons at local church gyms, my backyard, or any other location we could find. Softball and football were other favorites. We lived by the pool at Ansley in the summer. Jeff was full of self esteem and was always ready for an adventure. His old green Hudson car was nicknamed the Jungle Cruiser and saw many nights of crusing the Varsity, ball games, double dating, bowling, drive-ins, or just cruising the high school hang outs. He loved to laugh and cut up as do I. We were always together on the weekends. We shared plenty of high school adventures together, some I am not willing to share with my kids or grand kids or others. When we got Jeff together with Hudson Hardin, who attended Grady for some years and lived in my neighborhood but graduated from GMA, the two were wild men especially if a little spirits were involved. Some of those stories are my favorites of that era and have been retold numerous times. Jeff loved life and the ladies and chased both with great vigor.
The last time I saw Jeff was in Sept. 65 after I returned from three years in Europe in the USAF and was packing up my mother and dad's home to move to Spartanburg, SC, We went to Wilbur Blackburn's wedding. I attempted to contact him on a later visit to Atlanta , but I was told be was working for 3M Co. in Minn. Jeff was a good friend to me and will be missed. Our many adventures will keep me laughing for the rest of my years.
Dick Easley
Jeff and Wilbur Blackburn were two of my closest friends during Spring Street and later Grady. They lived in Ansley Park just around the corner from each other while I lived a short distance away in Sherwood Forest. In Grady, the three of us played basketball hundreds of afternoons at local church gyms, my backyard, or any other location we could find. Softball and football were other favorites. We lived by the pool at Ansley in the summer. Jeff was full of self esteem and was always ready for an adventure. His old green Hudson car was nicknamed the Jungle Cruiser and saw many nights of crusing the Varsity, ball games, double dating, bowling, drive-ins, or just cruising the high school hang outs. He loved to laugh and cut up as do I. We were always together on the weekends. We shared plenty of high school adventures together, some I am not willing to share with my kids or grand kids or others. When we got Jeff together with Hudson Hardin, who attended Grady for some years and lived in my neighborhood but graduated from GMA, the two were wild men especially if a little spirits were involved. Some of those stories are my favorites of that era and have been retold numerous times. Jeff loved life and the ladies and chased both with great vigor.
The last time I saw Jeff was in Sept. 65 after I returned from three years in Europe in the USAF and was packing up my mother and dad's home to move to Spartanburg, SC, We went to Wilbur Blackburn's wedding. I attempted to contact him on a later visit to Atlanta , but I was told be was working for 3M Co. in Minn. Jeff was a good friend to me and will be missed. Our many adventures will keep me laughing for the rest of my years.