Mike Willham
My cousin John was a good guy and I always enjoyed being around him. My mom Ruth Willham (Whaley) was John’s aunt and she was the youngest of the Whaley siblings which made my brothers, sister and me some of John’s younger cousins. We always enjoyed visits when John would come back to Terre Haute from Florida and show us his pictures and
slides from his various trips. In the summer of 1966 when I had graduated from high school and just before I started at ISU I had to take a training cruise with the Navy which ended up in Key West, FL. I had contacted John to see if I could visit with him for a couple of days before heading back to IN to start my classes. I had a great time with John, we went
to the beach, he took me sightseeing and we went to Busch Garden in Tampa and drank a lot of beer(I was only 18). He easily convinced me to spend a few more days with him than I had intended which got both us in trouble with my mom. We still talked and laughed about that at Carolyn’s funeral last fall.
I feel bad for Dick and Jeri to have lost a sister and brother in such a short time.
Mike Willham