A trombone player with the Red Nichols' and his five pennies as well as with the Tommy Dorsey band and a self taught mechanic. From Nebraska but moved and settled down with his beloved wife Mary "Cele" Harris in New York City. They had only one child, daughter Patti, who he helped to raise his three grandchildren prior to his death.
A trombone player with the Red Nichols' and his five pennies as well as with the Tommy Dorsey band and a self taught mechanic. From Nebraska but moved and settled down with his beloved wife Mary "Cele" Harris in New York City. They had only one child, daughter Patti, who he helped to raise his three grandchildren prior to his death.
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My grandfather chose to be buried next to his beloved wife in her hometown cemetery in Georgia and requested no stone marker telling my mother not to spend any money other then to fly him home to his wife.
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