A moving tale from Tom Dean

Tom Dean, Class of 1949, has moved again . . . but only from the second floor to the ground floor of a nearby building in his Goldsboro, North Carolina complex.

Let Tom, a former Monongah High football and basketball player, tell his story:

“I started the moving at 166 pounds and ended up at 161 pounds.”

Great weight loss strategy, Tom.

He continued:

“I had packed 20 some boxes and moved them myself. The movers took care of the heavy stuff.

“Climbing up  the stairs with heavy packages doesn't cut it any more!

“Schedule this month is my annual check-up, with psycho exam; Stem-cell injection in the left knee and Dermo Guy to see if my big toenail removal is sprouting new life. Not to mention other little things that seem to need frozen.

“Guess all you ‘old folks’ can relate! Cheers to all!”

New Address:

Tom Dean

520 W. New Hope Rd., A-7
Goldsboro, NC 27534

Tom was in the Air Force. His military career took him to such places as Madrid, Spain, Iceland, Seville, Spain and Germany.

Tom’s brother, the late Charles Robert “Chub” Dean, Class of 1954, was in the Air Force. Tom’s daughter, Pam, also served in the military.

Tom’s wife, Rosemarie Dean, passed away in 2012.

Tom and his lifelong best friend, Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, who lives in Monongah, sat at the same table with me at the 2018 Monongah High Alumni Reunion in Fairmont.

 I love senior citizens who don’t act old. That's why I do my annual 3-month Florida winterizing in The Villages, where there are 125,000 55-or-older residents making every day playday, on the golf course, in the swimming pool, at card games, music concerts, 2,200 clubs for everything you can think of, free outdoor music entertainment and dancing with sometimes hundreds out there dancing at one time and up to 3,000 in the audience.

 

These are not people sitting in their rocking chairs waiting for the undertake to show up.

 

Neither is Tom!