MARCH 15, 2003, REEDY REUNION STORIES
Florida 2003, submitted by Shirley Reedy Reich
Buford Reedy, Jr. Stories
I was really worried about whether we'd have a Reunion this year. I had this dream about 3 men in a plane - and the plane crashed. The passengers in the plane were E.A., Irving and Alan.

These 3 men got to the Pearly Gates and Saint Peter greeted them. Saint Peter admitted Alan and directed him down a long hall to a special room. Alan opened the door, looked in at a beautiful marble room, and walked in. He sees right in the middle of this room a big, ugly, ugly orangutan. While he is looking at this big ugly orangutan, the door closes behind him and a voice from Heaven comes down and says "Alan, you have grievously sinned, and you will spend eternity in this room with this big, ugly orangutan.

The same thing happens to E.A. He is admitted, directed to a special room and when he looks in, there is a big, ugly gorilla. The door closes behind him and the voice from Heaven says "E.A., you have grievously sinned and you will spend eternity in this room with this gorilla."

About this time Irving asks "What about me?" St. Peter admits him and sends him down the hall to the last door on the left. Irving opens the door, looks in and sees, there in the middle of the room, Bo Derek! Wow! The door closes behind him and the voice from Heaven comes down and says-------"Bo Derek, you have grievously sinned------!"

The next story is a true one. At the time this happened, about 1932, my mother and father, Louise and Buford, were living on the farm with Grandma and Grandpa Reedy. Times were very hard then, and Mom and Grandma were sitting on the back porch wishing for things out of the Sears-Roebuck catalog, and they saw a little notice that said "We buy old gold". Grandma had some old teeth with gold fillings and they decided they would try to sell those fillings. They were trying to pry this gold out when it flipped out and fell on the ground and one of the chickens running around runs up and grabs it. Grandma says "Louise, you watch that chicken and I'll get the hatchet." She comes back with the hatchet, Louise points out the chicken, they kill it and go through the craw, but found no gold there. "Well, maybe it was that other chicken." Same thing - no gold. They try again, no gold. They try again, no gold. They wind up killing a lot of chickens, but don't find gold. However, they did eat a lot of chicken and rice, and chicken and dumplings for the next several days.

This one is also true. My Dad, Buford Reedy, and Pat and Adrian Keel were down on an old road which was low and had deep wet places in it. A big, fancy touring car came along with some gentlemen in it and the driver stopped to ask the boys if they could get through the water OK. The boys assured him they could, if they were careful to stay in the road, and added that they would hop on the running board and go along to help in case there was trouble. They got through just fine, and as the boys were starting to leave, a gentleman who hadn't said anything up to this time, leaned out of the back seat and said "Boys when you get home you can tell your Dad that you rode on the car with Herbert Hoover". Buford Jr. yelled "Oh my, no. If I told my Daddy that he'd beat me to death!"


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