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SUNDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY BANKRUPTCIES
DEATHS Ruth Bellerose, Alexandria Emma John Angle Bagley Buchanan, Norton, Mass. Roland Eugene Burgess, South Carolina Jeremy Wade Burton, Jacksonville Thomas Leslie Camp, Jacksonville Thomas Benjamin Cates Jr., Centre Lavette Jean Clements, Centre Gary Leon Cooper Sr., Ashland Carl E. “Rock” Corbett, Anniston Betty Jo Evans, Goodwater Ola Catherine Parker Ferguson, Jacksonville Frances Hopkins Garrett, Centre Thelma Gray, Weaver Lester Green, Cedar Bluff Mary A. Green, Jacksonville Sue Gurley, Munford Tommy Hale, Eastaboga Curtis (Sapp) Hargitt, Georgia Helen J. Heathcock, Weaver Marjorie Vivian “Vicky” Yates Holmes, North Carolina Henrietta Stovall Howard, Georgia
Shirley Ann Howell, Centre Virginia Dovie Smith Hudson, Lineville Elizabeth Ann Isbell, Oxford William J. Joshua, Anniston Diane Keys, Anniston Louise Heard McDow, Roanoke Virginia Murphy, Anniston Charles Franklin O’Hara, Heflin Ola Catherine Ferguson Parker, Jacksonville Betty Jo Ramsey, Roanoke Patsy Rivera, Wellington Ceola “Tunie” Rudolph, Anniston Apolinar R. Santillan, Anniston Thomas Gaines Simpson, Roanoke Clinton Stewart Smith, Piedmont Clemmon “Sonny” Walker, Anniston Eth Welch, Lineville Seymour West Jr., Jacksonville Jane B. Whaley, Wedowee Lennie Yvonne “Cheata” White, Jacksonville Margaret P. Williams, Mississippi Hazel Ann Youson, Ellenwood, Ga.
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A Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows the debtor to retain certain exempt property, but the debtor’s remaining property is gathered and sold by a trustee from which creditors will receive payment. It may also be used by businesses which wish to terminate their business. A Chapter 13 bankruptcy enables debtors, through court supervision and protection, to propose and carry out a repayment plan under which creditors are paid, in full or in part, in installments over a three-year period. During that time, debtors are prohibited from starting or continuing collection efforts. The following bankruptcies declared by Calhoun County residents were recorded by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Alabama last week:
Chapter 7 • Tiffany Young, Elizabeth Street, Anniston • Rachel Hurt, Coldwater Road, Oxford • Chelsea Cline, Greensport Road, Ohatchee • Jeffrey A. Hicks and Beth M. Hicks, Weatherbrook Lane, Anniston • Daniel Eady and Summar Eady, Kirksey Bend, Ohatchee • Temeshica T. Chatman, Sterling Pointe Lane, Oxford • Andrew Joseph Regnier and Marion Jean Regnier, Dixie Drive, Eastaboga • Brian P. Capps and Jena L. Capps, Sunset Drive, Weaver
MARRIAGE LICENSES • Corey Dorell Hunt of Jacksonville to Latolia Chevette Stockdale of Jacksonville • Jorge Francisco Acevedo Bustamante of Anniston to Maria Alejandra Dubon Rodriguez of Anniston • Brandon Alan Gaston of Anniston to Nicole Buris Gaston of Anniston • Jerry Lee Gunnells of Riverside to Staci Jean Getto of Weaver • Patrick Lee Carlisle of Oxford to Ashley Nikai Holland of Oxford • Christopher Dale Brown of Oxford to
Crystal Dawn Watkins of Oxford • Stanley David Simmons of Jacksonville to Natalie Louise Watkins of Jacksonville • Bradley Stephen Ragels of Talladega to Cherry Lynn Pittman of Talladega • Eric Lee Smith of Anniston to Tiffany Mae Horton of Anniston • Daniel Lee Bryant of Eastaboga to Kassie Jeanette Houser of Eastaboga • David Dylan Lampton of Anniston to Meghan Elise McDonald of Anniston
• Christa Dianne Lackey and Calvin Lackey Jr. • Jonathan Bowling and Paige Mangham
Bowling • Paul Wilmer Roden Jr. and Melisa Jean Roden
RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS
Here are food service establishments recently inspected by the Calhoun County Health Department, along with scores. A score of 100 indicates the inspector found no deficiencies. Potentially hazardous deficiencies (four- or five-point demerit items) are noted. These must Chapter 13 be corrected immediately and inspectors say • Timothy Smith and Teresa Smith, Sunset they are often corrected while the inspection Drive, Weaver is underway. Restaurants earning below 70 • Sharon Hill, Rocky Ridge Road, Oxford must raise their scores within seven days or • Linda K. Mitchell, Tanglewood Drive, face closure. Oxford • Gerald Watkins and Terry Watkins, NO MAJOR DEMERITS Ingram Wells Road, Ohatchee • Auction Time, 10195 U.S. 78, E., Oxford — 97. • Brad’s Bar-B-Que, 1809 U.S. 78 E., Oxford — 99. • Panera Bread, 21 Commons Way, Oxford — 99. EDITOR’S NOTE The material inside the Sunday Record is recorded by The Anniston Star from various institutions and government offices. The public records are published as they appeared on the documents obtained by the newspaper. Direct questions and comments about Sunday Record to Isaac Godwin at igodwin@annistonstar.com.
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between about 40 million gallons to 109 sheen and brown patches of oil floating for BY JAY REEVES AND RAY HENRY million gallons of oil have gushed into the miles off the Alabama coast. Boats trying to Associated Press Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, remove the oil before it hit the coast worked ORANGE BEACH — Alabama’s beaches killing 11 workers and triggering the worst about three miles out. took their worst hit yet from an oil spill in oil spill in U.S. history. “The Gulf looks like it has chicken pox,” the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday as globs of The oil washing up on Alabama’s shores Brumley said. crude and gooey tar — some the size of pan- was the heaviest since the rig explosion and The oily sheen covered the pass leading cakes — lined the white sands and crews came just as the summer beach season was into Perdido Bay near the Alabama-Florida worked to try to keep a giant oil sheen just a picking up. state lines. Globs of brown oil floated in few miles away from reaching the shore. During a flight over the Gulf, Sean BrumPlease see OIL Page 11A Scientists have estimated that anywhere ley, an aerial spotter, said he saw an oily
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During an Anniston City Council meeting, the audience reaction to the council’s disagreements can vary from deep sighs and rolling eyes to whispered expletives to delighted comments like, “This is better than TV.” Council members passionately argue and threaten each other. One council member even
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admits he avoids going to City Hall because of the arguments he might find himself in. “It certainly is intimidating,” said Councilman John Spain. “I avoid coming down here to the building altogether just simply because I don’t want a confrontation with the mayor.” Please see ANNISTON Page 10A
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From top left: Councilman Ben Little, Mayor Gene Robinson, ViceMayor John Spain, Councilman Herbert Palmore and Councilman David Dawson during last Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Photos by Trent Penny/ The Anniston Star
New director fills hole in local charity Sister Jane O’Connor assumes leadership of Center of Concern BY DANIEL GADDY Star Staff Writer
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Sister Jane O’Connor, the new director of a long-standing charitable organization in Anniston, fires a quick response when asked about her predecessor. “I’m taking her position, but I could never fill her shoes,” she said. O’Connor recently took over Sister Mary Roy’s duties at the All Saints Interfaith Center of Concern. The organization helps Anniston residents in need of food, clothing and financial assistance. Roy served as director of the center for 27 years, earning in that time not just accolades from other civic leaders but also a ceremonial “Key to the City” and The Anniston Star’s 2009 Citizen of the Year Award. “She [Roy] is the nearest thing to a saint we’re going to find in this lifetime,” said Charles Doster, advisory board member of the Center of Concern. “She is the Mother Teresa of Anniston, but saying that brings out the worst in her.”
and sorrows of all she experienced here,” she said. Robin Gladd, office manager of the center, said O’Connor eased into her new job as if it was second nature. “She just took it and started running with it,” she said. “She’s given them hope and spiritual guidance. I think they’re walking out of here better than when they came in.” O’Connor said her success is due directly to the work of staff members like Gladd and Sandra Hall, the assistant director of the center. “They’ve been very helpful and very friendly; I couldn’t do it without them,” O’Connor said. In addition to food and clothing, the Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star nonprofit Center of Concern also proSister Jane O’Connor took over vides financial assistance with medical Sister Mary Roy’s responsibilities bills, prescriptions, utilities and transat the All Saints Interfaith Center portation for those in need. O’Connor transferred to the center of Concern in Anniston. from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Roy left the center after breaking her Prattville, where she served as a paship in March. She relocated to the Con- toral assistant. However, she was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and reared in Washnecticut headquarters of her order, the Daughters of the Holy Spirit, where she ington, D.C. and Maryland. She has a master’s degree in religious education receives medical care. O’Connor said she hopes to meet the and has worked in Catholic social serneeds of her clients with the same com- vices in Philadelphia as well as parishes in Virginia and Mississippi. passion and love Roy displayed. “I feel like I’m treading in the joys Please see DIRECTOR Page 11A
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Cows: Breakers 75.00 to 79.00; Boners 80.00 to 83.00; Lean 70.00 to 74.00. Bulls: Normal Dressing 54-58% 85.00 to 89.50; High Dressing >58% 94.50 to 98.00; Low Dressing
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Bulls and steers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. 200.00 to 240.00; 300-400 lbs. 182.00 to 220.00; 400-500 lbs. 162.00 to 200.00; 500-600 lbs. 140.00 to 180.00; 600700 lbs. 118.00 to 150.00. Heifers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. Too Few; 300-400 lbs. 157.00 to 205.00; 400-500 lbs. 147.00 to 170.00; 500600 lbs. 134.00 to 150.00; 600-700 lbs. 120.00 to 138.00.
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Here is the livestock market report for the Tuesday sale. Receipts for this week 1025 compared to 881 last week. Receipts a year ago 651.
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ARRESTS The people listed in this arrest report, whose names and charges are obtained from public records, are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Anniston
The following felony arrests were reported by the Anniston Police Department (addresses not provided) during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. • Elijah Seth Harris, 22: first-degree possession of marijuana. • Teresa Ann Jackson, 59: third-degree robbery. • Dmarrious Lajuan Lane, 21: second-degree possession of a forged
instrument. • Brannon Demetrius Rudolph, 32: possession of a controlled substance, first-degree possession of marijuana. • Antonio Deandrea Rawls, 27: breaking and entering a vehicle. • Thomas Tramaine Cunningham, 26: first-degree possession of marijuana. • Carlos Ladom McCain, 20: second-degree possession of marijuana.
Sheriff’s Office during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. • Quindarious Malik Sterling, 18, of Ohatchee: warrant of arrest. • Donna Lawson Shelton, 44, of Jacksonville: interference with custody. • Male, 37, of Oxford: warrant of arrest for sexual abuse. • Caleb Shane Magee, 24, of Oxford: second-degree escape. • Shannon Jay Arrowood, 39, of Alexandria: first-degree burglary. • Shelia Jones, 38, of Anniston: second-degree theft of property. Calhoun County • Dylan Blake Ingram, 20, of AnnisThe following felony arrests were ton: failure to appear in court. reported by the Calhoun County • Bruce Daniel Ward Jr., 29, of
Anniston: order of arrest. • Nigel Traevon Dreuitt, 20, of Anniston: failure to appear in court. • Demonta Terrell Miller, 20, of Anniston: motion to revoke bond. • Darryl Alonzo White, 30, of Anniston: possession/receiving a controlled substance. • Mitchell Antonio Tumer, 27, of Anniston: motion to revoke bond. • Henry Rodricous Burton, 31, of Anniston: failure to appear in court. • Joshua Dewayne Stewart, 22, of Anniston: warrant of arrest for first-degree robbery. • Charles Rush Brown, 44, of Eastaboga: failure to appear in court.
Oxford
The following felony arrests were reported by the Oxford Police Department during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. • Thomas Bryan Hill, 20: first-degree theft of property. • Michael Anthony/Eugene Burns, 52: theft. • Constance Lafaye Carter Vines, 43: hindering prosecution. • Trae Doram Anderson, 29: possession of a forged instrument. • Lawanda Antionette Walker, 35: second-degree theft of property. • Antione Lashawn Williams, 40: first-degree possession of a forged instrument.
BLOTTER Crimes are listed by location. Anonymous tips may be called in to Crime Stoppers at 256-238-1414. A reward of up to $1,000 may be given.
Anniston
The following property crimes were reported to the Anniston Police Department during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.
Burglaries • Residence, 1300 block of Johnston Drive: television, laptop computer. (Recovered 11-11-13) • Residence, 500 block of North Virginia Avenue: tools, lantern, generator. • Residence, 1400 block of McCall Drive: cash, food items. • Service station, 1500 block of Greenbrier Dear Road: welder, lawn mower, gasoline. • Residence, 200 block of North Led-
better Street: DVDs, game console, electric guitar. • Residence, 600 block of Parker Street: central heat/air unit, air conditioning unit, chainsaw, tool kit, printer, backpack. • Residence, unspecified block of Twine Street: televisions. (Recovered 11-9-2013) • Residence, 500 block of Glen Addie Avenue: game console, games. • Residence, 3000 block of McKleroy Avenue: televisions. • Residence, 1200 block of Altamont Road: television. • Residence, 2500 block of 14th Street: firearm, pellet gun, jewelry, coins. • Residence, 400 block of East 22nd Street: television. • Residence, 900 block of West 49th Street: television, game console. • Residence, 1000 block of Michael Lane: space heaters.
• Residence, 4700 block of Linda • Parking lot, 3100 block of McKleroy Lane: game console. Avenue: 2003 Chevrolet Impala. • Residence, 1500 block of Brown Robberies Avenue: jewelry. • Street, 800 block of Lagarde AveThefts nue: 1978 Cadillac Deville. (Recov• Public building, 300 block of Pappy ered 11-7-2013) Dunn Boulevard: mold injector. (Recovered 11-1-2013) Calhoun County • Parking lot, unspecified block of Lynwood Drive: cash. The following property crimes were • Residence, 700 block of West 54th reported to the Calhoun County Street: jewelry. Sheriff’s Office during the seven-day • Residence, 4900 block of Saks period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. Road: cash. • Service station, 3000 block of U.S. Burglaries 78: cash. • Residence, Cochran Springs Road, • Residence, 1200 block of Kilby Ter- Ohatchee: firearm, jewelry box, race: jewelry. jewelry, game console.
Oxford
The following property crimes were reported to the Oxford Police Department during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.
Thefts
• Residence, unspecified block of Suzanell Lane: utility trailer. • Construction site, unspecified block of U.S. 78 West and Bynum Boulevard, Eastaboga: batteries, fuel pump. • Residence, 1700 block of Airport Road: jewelry. • Parking lot, 90 block of Plaza Lane: purse, cash, personal checks, cell phone, personal I.D. I.D. theft Thefts • Merita Bread Company, U.S. 78 W: • Residence, 1200 block of Highland • Residence, Westwood Drive, Alex- utility trailer. Avenue: cash from a debit card. andria: jewelry. • Residence, 100 block of Sand Trap Auto-related thefts Circle: utility trailer.
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SUNDAY RECORD CALENDAR: AnnistonStar.com/calendar PROPERTY TRANSFERRED
• Ladiga Manor LLC to Jacksonville Retirement Investors LLC, a parcel of land in section 22, township 14, range 8, $10. • EverBank to Housing & Urban Development, a parcel of land in section 35, township 13, range 9, $1. • Wanda Johnson to Nevery Berry and B & B Estates LLC, Ed McGinnis re-subdivision, block 527, lot 46, $16,539. • Angie Bentley to Danny T. Smith, Cheaha Acres, 2nd addition to Boozer Land Co., block 1, lot 4, $10. • Regions Bank to Advanced Fenestration Products LLC, South Anniston Land Co., 2nd division, block 2, lot 1, $10. • Jorge U. De Assis and Marcelyn Ella De Assis to Broadway Group LLC, a parcel of land in section 33, township 13, range 7, $95,000. • Curtis R. Summers and Barbara A. Summers to Millard Scott Hanbury and Jennifer Hanbury, a parcel of land in section 33, township 14, range 7, $150,000. • Catherine F. Burke to On The Ball LLC, R.J. Riddle plat, block 506, lot 4, $1. • Samuel L. Stewart Sr. to Marsh Family LP, a parcel of land in section 34, Jacksonville, $10. • Helen P. Landers-Estate to Cammy Catherine Johnson, Tyler Hill Land Co., block 9, lots 5 and 6, $10. • Ross D. Cash and Barbara A. Cash to Thomas M. Wiggonton Jr. and Delaine C. Wiggonton, Woodchase subdivision, block D, lot 3, $10. • Patrick Williams to Ramanjit Kaur Bhatti and Karman Singh, City of Anniston, block
143, lots 16 and 17, $17,750. • Bank of America to Housing and Urban Development, a parcel of land in section 7, township 13, range 10. • Bank of America to Veterans Affairs, North Anniston Realty Co., Saks addition D, block 33, lot 7, $10. • William K. Dickie and Linda J. Dickie to Linda J. Dickie, a parcel of land in section 28, township 14, range 6, $10. • William K. Dickie and Linda J. Dickie to William K. Dickie and Linda J. Dickie, a parcel of land in section 27, township 14, range 6, $10. • William K. Dickie and Linda J. Dickie to William K. Dickie and Linda J. Dickie, a parcel of land in section 28, township 14, range 6, $10. • Pioneer Properties LLC to Daniel Lopez, Anniston Land Co., block 515A, lot 32, $10. • David A. Couch and Cathy Couch to Donovan M. Cooley and Martieka S. Cooley, Greensview subdivision, lot 10, $10. • Janice Harper, Donnie Curvin, Sam Curvin, Michael Curvin, Teresa Hammonds and Gary A. Curvin to John W. Mintz and Briana L. Mintz, Lenlock Lane subdivision, 1st addition, block C, lot 12, $10. • Steve Akers to Phillip Booke, Woodland Heights, 2nd section, block 10, lot 4, $100. • Paul A. Henniger and Sharon Henniger to Sharon Henniger and Regina Ramsey, Patureland subdivision, lot 12, $10. • Evelyn Forbus Watson to Helen Carter Lee, Betta-View Hills subdivision, Strickland’s addition, block 2, lots 7 and 8, $1. • Cheaha Bank to Lewis Lowell Kirksey,
Rutledge addition, block 232, lot 8, $10. • Adam Paul Morales Jr. and Jennifer Marla Morales to Koty A. Bryant, Ledford subdivision, block B, lots 7 and 8, $72,500. • Kennith James to Cynthia James, a parcel of land in section 33, township 14, range 8, $10. • Gary Steven Dunaway and Dennis A. Dunaway to Joseph Linn, a parcel of land in section 15, township 16, range 7, $10. • Gladys H. Dethrage-Estate to Andrew C. Zinn and Emily M. Zinn, Lyncoya subdivision, Grady Vaughn’s addition, block 2, lot 10, $10. • Kenneth E. Turner and Kimberly N. Turner to Brian R. Godby and Christina H. Godby, Westwood subdivision, block A, lot 3, $100. • Bobby R. Wood to Linda Wood, Royal Oaks Estates, lot 240, $10. • Vera Mae Wood to Bobby R. Wood and Vera Mae Wood, a parcel of land in section 20, township 15, range 8, $10. • David R. Abernathy to David Abernathy and Tawnya Abernathy, Greenbrier subdivision, 2nd addition, block E, lot 15, $10. • Alton C. Hall and Cheryl A. Hall to Sandra Allen, Town of Piedmont, block 25, lots 5, 6, 9 and 10, $10. • Mountain View Acquisition LLC to Hillabee Enterprises LLC, Pate Crossing, phase 4, lot 24, $10. • Nebrasker Burnhart Jr. to Kandy Burnhart Bothwell, Anniston City Land Co., block 251, lot 3, $10. • Gerald W. Wilkerson to Louis Burton, West Anniston Land & Improvement Co., block 23, lot 7, $10.
• Rex F. McKinley and Angelia J. Bonds McKinley to Gerald W. Wilkerson, Quintard Land Co., block 122, lot 7, $10. • Freddie Mac to Patrick M. Dixon and Doris A. Dixon, Vaughn’s addition of lots 78-185, lot 99, $37,000. • Horace McWhorter, Edward Butler and Tammie Butler to Hugh L. Minton and Alice Faye Minton, Miller Estates, 4th addition, lot 119, $10. • Bank of America to Housing & Urban Development, Phoenix Hills Estates, lot 1, $122,993. • Margaret Turner to Christy Turner McGatha, Piedmont Land & Improvement Co., block 7, lots 17-20, $10. • Harry C. Ankeny and Kathryn E. Ankeny to The Harry Carson Ankeny Jr. 2013 Revocable Trust, Spring Valley subdivision, block 5, lot 4, $10. • Dennis Austin to Choccolocco Community Church, a parcel of land in section 4, township 16, range 9, $30,000. • Sharon Booke to Abbott Properties LLC, a parcel of land in section 22, township 16, range 8, $100. • Ray Fagan and Donna S. Fagan to Sherry L. Ford, a parcel of land in section 10, township 13, range 10, $100. • William Dwight Hulsey and Gloria Watson Hulsey to Shannon R. Hunter, a parcel of land in section 3, township 14, range 8, $10. • Oak Castle LLC to Craig B. Gardner and Charlee Michel Gardner, Forest Ridge Estaes, lot 4B, $150,000.
Veteran uses spray paint to heal battlef ield scars BY BRANDON GOLDNER Capital News Service
LANHAM, Md. — Every artist has his favorite medium. For Jon Hancock, 30, that medium is spray paint. The Maryland artist — whose art is on display at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago — purchases dozens of cans in different colors. “Let’s use this one,” Hancock said in his backyard art studio, picking up a yellow can. When he pushed down on the knob of his can, he not only releases paint, but 10 deployments’ worth of military memories. One of those military memories was when he first killed a man, in Iraq. “We were in Ramadi in 2004,” Hancock said. “The ‘oh-s — — moment’ was when I turned the corner and stitched a guy up from groin to neck. I turned the corner and he was there. He had an RPG. He was getting ready to sling up on his shoulder, and I, just, (fired) seven, eight rounds from groin right to the neck. I just kept plugging away, and right then Ö that was the point when I was like, ‘I’m in this s — -. I’m in it.’” For 8 years, Hancock served as a Marine, working a variety of jobs in the reconnaissance community. He said he eventually became an interrogator and source handler, working in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa. Hancock said his deployments now serve as an inspiration for his artwork. “I’m a huge fan of Van Gogh,” Hancock said. “Art has always just been really cool to me, and I’ve always enjoyed anybody that goes outside the box with it, and do more interesting things.” Like Van Gogh, Hancock is plagued by his own demons including post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, the result of what he said was being exposed to multiple roadside-bomb explo-
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Maryland Marine veteran Jon Hancock works out years of military memories while creating his spray-paint masterpieces. sions and concussions. “I have really vivid and imaginative nightmares, and they’re really crazy,” Hancock said. “Every night is a wake-up in cold sweat. My sleep pattern’s off. I don’t sleep a lot. Maybe an hour or two a day.” He joined the Marine Corps in May 2001, but those painful memories didn’t start until his second Iraq deployment. “Once you kill somebody, it happens,” Hancock said. “Afterwards, you think about it, and whatever you do that day stays with you your entire life, because it’s such a raw environment. It’s so absolutely chaotic and violent. It’s just so bad that it sears itself into your memory, and that’s what happens every time.” Also seared into his memory are the deaths of his brothers-in-arms.
“I never went to most of the graves of most of the guys, and that’s kinda how I dealt with it,” Hancock said. “It’s sad when it happens and you cry a lot. ‘Why did this f ——— happen?’ And then you justify it with, ‘He was at war.’ And you say, ‘He was a hero.’” “I guess the mourning process is constant. It’s an everyday thing for me,” he said. Returning home, Hancock said he began drinking heavily. “I drink to sleep, and that becomes a problem because I’m probably an alcoholic, but functioning nonetheless,” he said, adding that alcohol quells his nightmares and allows him to fall asleep. What saved him was his artwork. “It’s therapeutic. It’s gotten me away from the bars a lot more,” Hancock said.
Besides telling his stories through artwork, Hancock works as a teaching assistant at the University of Maryland’s Arabic studies department. “Teaching in an actual standardized environment is interesting because you actually get to see the information being soaked up by students, and then you see it later on regurgitated in different and new ways,” Hancock said. Arabic studies student Phillip Osterhout said, “As a veteran, he has a very unique outlook on things.” Not only does Hancock teach students, he’s also learning. Hancock is an Arabic and Russian languages major who’s studying for the LSAT, the law school aptitude test. “Inevitably you’re going to be older than the people in college or wherever you choose to be, you’ll be older than most of them,” he said. “You’ll have different life experiences, not better, but different and ones that a lot of people are never going to have.” Hancock acknowledged the challenges of transitioning to civilian life. “Whether you’re in for 4 years or you’re in for 20, it’s not any easier to leave a brotherhood and something that you’ve been a part of and an integral piece into something that you’re just another number,” he said. But his artwork and his teaching are helping Hancock become more than just a number. “I used to mourn by just drinking,” Hancock said. “But I guess how I mourn now is through proactive initiatives to attempt to give people information about what a veteran’s going through.” When he does mourn, he creates his masterpieces. “I just allow for the art to dictate where it wants to go, because who am I to question what it is that I’m trying to say, when I don’t even know what it is I’m trying to say.”
Retiree crafts pens for troops serving overseas BY ERIN TRACY The Modesto Bee
MODESTO, Calif. — For more than a decade, Ceres, Calif., resident Jim Gollnick has been sending a handcrafted piece of home to troops serving overseas. Gollnick, 70, creates elegant pens made of pink ivory wood, tulipwood, walnut, cherry and other woods. He’s even made pens out of old .50-caliber machine gun casings. The hobby started as a favor to a friend who collected pens and always wanted to learn to make them. A retired machinist, Gollnick got the tools needed to teach his friend the craft. “I kind of got suckered in from there,” he said. Gollnick has made more than 2,000 pens for military personnel and veterans and hundreds more for friends and family. A member of the Tuolumne River Woodworkers Association, Gollnick oversees a program that furnishes pens with engravings to the Modesto Vet Center and also donates pens to various groups that support active military. He likes giving pens to the troops because it is “something small that they can carry in their pocket that fits in their uniform.” With each, he includes a signed note explaining how the pen was made and what wood was used. Q: How do your pens get to
military members? A: I have a network of chaplains and some military people who make good use of the pens. One that comes to mind is a chaplain, now in Afghanistan, who goes to the outposts to minister and seeks out the soldiers there that do not have contact with home. There are many who do not have family. They get first pick of my pens. Our son-in-law is currently serving in Afghanistan and also passes them out. It’s good for morale. I make Purple Heart wood pens — usually reserved for recipients of the Purple Heart — with a center strip of the Purple Heart wood and a strip of rosewood on each side. I gave many of the Purple Heart pens to a friend in Valdosta, Ga., who was passing them out at the local VA hospital where wounded soldiers were arriving from Iraq. She would go visit them, get their name and rank, laser-engrave it on the pen, and then return with the pens. Q: How do you get inspiration for each pen? A: A pen needs to be functional, and that limits the creativity one can use. It’s not like making Christmas tree ornaments for decoration. I have a “signature” item on most of the pens for the troops. I put in a small red, white, blue stripe (polished plastic) band in the pen. Q: What kind of feedback do you get from the people who
Elias Funez/MCT
Jim Gollnick displays some of his custom wood pens constructed in his studio at home. receive your pens? A: I have a collection of letters and emails from happy pen recipients. Several Medal of Honor recipients have my pens. I’ve had about 75 responses. I also hear from those handing them out how much they are appreciated. My favorite feedback was close to home. I gave a pen to my neighbor’s daughter who is an Army reservist and was called to duty in Iraq. I hand-delivered a hot pink pen to her before she left. I saw her again a year later jogging past
my house and she gave me a big hug and then reached in her pocket and showed me the pink pen. That’s feedback! It brought tears to my eyes. Q: Can you describe your favorite letter from a soldier? A: It was an email from Egypt in 2007. It was a very nice thank-you note. The soldier described how he’d just arrived and was assigned his room. In the desk drawer was the pen, case and description card. He was really impressed that someone from home cared and sent the note. He mentioned how nice it was that I supplied all the desks in the unit with pens when new men arrived. Well, that’s not so. My son-in-law worked and passed out pens in that area some time earlier. The pen in question had been left, deserted if you will, by another previous occupant of that room. It told me not all are wanted, but I think most are. Q: What is the most interesting material you’ve used to make a pen and for whom was it made? A: Our son bought his first house some years ago. It was an older house from the ‘60s. I helped him replace the old tornup oak toilet seat with a new one. I kept the old one and from it made a big oak pen for him. He still has it with him in his computer case he uses every day. Q: Do you ever sell your pens or just donate them? A: I don’t go out of my way to
sell pens. That makes it a job, not a hobby. When I support a group by giving out pens, they usually want to buy more. I will sell some, but the money just buys more pen kits that I need to build more pens. I have an expensive hobby. I have donated pen-and-pencil sets in a gift box for fundraising for various charities. They have sold for a very high price for the set at a silent auction. I feel good about that. Q: Do you ever have help making the pens? A: Yes. My wife helps by doing some of the handling, packaging and final inspection. She will make me fix something now and then. We work together on this, and though I do most of it, I couldn’t do it without her support and involvement. We are a team. If she was not interested in what we are doing, it would not happen. Q: Do you have a favorite or particularly special pen? A: Yes. Two of the first pens I made for myself are still here on my desk. They are the larger pen made from exotic wood and with a diagonal accent strip of another wood going across it. They are both well over 10 years old. Time and use make them get dull, and they lose their appeal. A year ago, I took both of these pens apart and rebuilt them with new shiny hardware and then refinished the wood. Now they are like new again, and I’m hoping for another 10 years of use.