Wow could I write a book of Jimmy memories, but I think Ruthie and Debbie would agree that this is the most memorable one...it was a nice summer day on Broadway Street in Hanover, I am sure they know what I am going to say next and are laughing right now as I am typing this...well the parents were filling the pool and the kids were running wild as usual, when we decided to take a nature walk..lol....here we were roaming the woods of Broadway Street and enjoying the nature...who can remember just what the hell we were talking about but oopps we realized we had gone to far and were lost...all of us wanted to be in control and we all had an idea how to find our way back and it started to get darker and panic set in....Then me of course who always had to try to be in charge and Jimmy who was the exact same, he had to be in charge well we started to butt heads when I said I know how to get us out of here I was a girl scout..lol...big girl scout for 2 years and never had I been on a nature walk unless you count the woods of Mt. Hope Street..but I insisted everyone follow me..and of course I got us lost even more...don't ask me anymore but all of a sudden the parents must of realized that it was way to quiet and the brats had been missing for awhile...thank God cuz panic was starting to set in with us and me being the loudest and most obnoxious I knew if we didn't get found soon that if you all got hungry I would of been voted the first one to have been killed for food..lol...now remember I use to watch you guys sow down on loaves of french toast,,,I think jimmy had the record with 20 pieces, oh yes he was skinny Jimmy but he could put the food away and I knew that even though I was the smallest I was the first to become dinner!!!! and after all I was only a cousin!!!! But finally we heard the father's screaming our name and we started yelling back, we followed there voices out of the woods and of course I never let you all forget what a good nature girl I was, finding our way out of the woods....I think for the rest of Jimmy's life every time I would see him, he would tell the story, of course his memories were different than mine, but I can still see his face and hear his voice, and his contagious laugh as he would try to get through the story of that day...although I have many Jimmy stories that is a vivid one...then ther was the one that I have blocked out about my shirt or my bra that was hid from me and since he is no longer here that is just a vague memory, I so miss him and wish he could come back and tell all the stories, he had the Collins wit and adlibbed a lot, but hey Collins exageration was not a bad thing...Just a week ago My boyfriend and I drove by the homestead on Broadway Street and I told him how we use to run from the barn to the street and back trying to beat the cars before they got to the driveway...it is funny when I was a kid I thought that driveway was so long as I took off to see if I could beat the car, now today I look at the driveway and laugh, what we remember as a child and see as an adult are way off the mark..I have found memories of all the Heney kids and forever will cherish them as my family you will always be..my favorite cousins always...Jimmy you will missed and thought of often by all whose life you touched, and you touched mine in such a positive way...thanks for all the memories you have created in my heart..Love your cousin Joanne
What can I say. I just have too many memories to share. I know that when I needed you I could always count on you. Remember, when I was having trouble with my algebra and you came right to my rescue. I received an A in that course and I owed that to you.
I wish you never left us, because I know you would of loved all your new neices and newphews. You are a great uncle too. I am so glad that you stayed at my house when you came home last time. I never knew that would be the last time I would see you. I miss you. Love Debbie
