This was our friend Tommy Redmond with his cue case in the Band Box in St.James. Tom lost his right arm below the elbow and most of his left hand when he was crawling under a train when he was not even a teenager yet. This never slowed him down as he always had a job and became a very good mechanic at his home and changed an engine for me and many others. He apparently was taught never to feel sorry for himself as he could do things that many people with all their members couldnt do. Tom came to my poolroom (Micks) several years ago and we practiced together and he became a very good player. Tom and I played doubles in the Hickory Inn tournament and won it due to his good shooting. He had never won that much money in any tournament before. Tom and I also played doubles partners in a Jackpot Junction Tournament and although we didnt do great, we had a good time and my top memory of that tournament is when a man watching as Tom shot had tears running down his eyes. Tom was a year older than I was and I had known he and his mother and dad and brothers for many years. I also knew all of his children and wife, Sandy Redmond. Toms mother, Huck Redmond who was in the hospital and on her deathbed told my wife to tell Donavon (Me) to watch over her boys when she was gone. I never had to do that with Tom. I made a Pool Video with Tom several years ago and its fun to look back at that. Tom loved to tease all kids and was a good story teller. Tom loved to read in his later years and there were times I would tell him to read a certain book for me and then give me a book report on it. When he was describing a book he had read, he would be in another world as though he was right at the scene of the story and it was enjoyable to listen to him talk about it. He would call most of his friends Jackass in a friendly way. Tom and Sandy raised a very good family and I am glad to say that I know all of them. Tony and I mowed Toms yard a few days before he passed on and I helped Sandy move a couch out of their living room to make more room for a hospital bed. I told Tom that maybe the new meds he was on would kick in and start helping him improve while knowing that I may never see him again. We left for the National Pool Tournament in Vegas a day or so later and I got a call on the road that Tom had passed on. It was a sick feeling even though you knew it was coming. We couldnt be at the wake or funeral but want the family to know that we and our friends all consider Tom to be one that no one will ever forget. R.I.P. Thomas Redmond.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 08:24:12 +0000
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