Jerry West’s East Bank connection is ill

Sue Williams Dodd, John Olesky

Sue Williams Dodd, daughter of Roy Williams, Jerry West’s East Bank High coach, is suffering from brain tumors and underdoing infusion therapy three times a week in The Villages, Florida, where she lives.

John Olesky, Class of 1950, ran into Sue a few years ago in The Villages, where John and Paula spend their winters at Paula’s home. In warmer weather, they share a Tallmadge, Ohio home.

Sue was born in McMilllan Hospital in Charleston. So was LaQuita, the daughter of John and the late Monnie Turkette Olesky of Cinderella, West Virginia, a Williamson suburb.

Sue and John get together each winter at the West Virginia Club meetings in The Villages, a retirement development for 19,000 age 55 and over home owners near Ocala, Orlando and Tampa.

John gave Sue the phone number of the late Mickey Furfari, legendary West Virginia sportswriter, and gave Mickey the phone number for Sue. Mickey called Sue and wrote a column about Jerry West's high school coach's daughter, who saw the NBA Logo before he even began his spectacular WVU career.

 

Prayers for Sue Williams Dodd, please. And her husband, who is at Sue’s side daily.