HONORABLE MENTION

.......................VIRGINIA WAWRO (1/31/1919-10/22/2005).......................
Holiday Florida....My (late) cousin Virginia expressed the wish to meet that guy over there in Orlando Florida who was....writing all those great stories. She read all....with great enthusiasm!!! Virginia, a great Lady, is so sadly missed!!!

..............................HERBERT & JANE MOOR..............................
My cousin Herbert and his wife Jane in West Unity Ohio....Jane was extremely helpful at a time when I was learning how to operate a computer....starting at an "early age".......of past seventy years young!!!

................................ANN WELLS.........................................
A distant....in more ways than one....cousin...WAY out there on the other end of the United States....whom I had the distinct pleasure....was extended the privilege...
the HONOR of meeting...via the internet when I logged onto the....Steuben County Indiana Home Page.....May 2004....!!!

...............................DARLA MORSE.....................................
My daughter who over the years has kept me supplied with writimg materials and for Father's Day a few years ago presented me with an excellant three inch thick... Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary....to aid me with the correct spelling, the nomenclature...usage of certain words....A "refresher course" of the stuff that those "One Room Country School Teachers"....from grade one through the eighth grade helped to instill in my infinite mind.....!!!

...............................MR. RONALD J. HOOVER...............................
A Rush "33" Colorado neighbor whom I grew up with....Ron and his cohorts are featured in a story about a peach picking trip to the Western Slope of Colorado!!!

...............................MR. DAVID J. "DJ" MCCALL.........................
Orlando Florida....My Computer Engineer friend to whom I owe a debt of gratitude, the worth of which I will NEVER EVER be able to repay.....................!!!

................................A SPECIAL THANKS...............................
To my wife Evelyn for her support....patience?.....sometimes understanding my need to follow through with the thoughts....which are continually running through my mind.... keeping me awake at night....thoughts expressed with the words...."Taking up a pen to write"!!!