"I guess the best memory was when he would come home and bring Savannah toys or stuffed animals, or T-shirts and she got to try on his "animal" hats that he brought back from Alaska. Earl loved kids. Even though he didn't have any of his own, she sure did know how to love and treat me right, and all other kids. He would bring stuff back for people from alaska. One thing that I remember is that he would always take me and my mom out for dinner on Sunday to Pizza Inn. 

"My favorite characteristics about him are his ability to help and share," Margie Gentry said. One of the best things about him was that he would always share anything he had. He owned a house that he let his step daughter live in for many years. He's the kind of person that if you'd ask, he'd take his shirt off his back and lend it to you. 

I think one of the reasons why he has impacted me so much is because i never got closure. Every Sunday i would see him until i was about 6 or 7 years old maybe. But one day, we just never went to see him anymore. I kept asking mom to take me to see him but she never would. So i got the nerve last year to ask her and keep asking her, because i just had a strange feeling that I needed to go see him. She tells me, yea, i'll call him and we can go visit him. But she never did. And one day she calls me, and tells me he passed away. I just knew that I should've went and saw him, but nobody listened, and thats what kills me. They wouldn't even take me to his funeral. So he's still in my heart and mind all the time. 

And that is why and how he has impacted me. Whenever I have kids of my own, i can promise you they will hear about him. I just wish i could've at least talked to him or something before he passed. His legacy will live throughout my family.