James Dale Checkley

I was a year behind Jim in Bristol high school. Being a fairly skinny kid, he jokefully willed me.His shot put ability in the bristol yearbook As a classmate of his wife, I would see them quite often and always enjoyed his company. I'm sorry I can't get out for the visitation.. Karl Heineman

First memory of Jim was playing basketball against him in high school. I was a sophomore at Jimtown and he a senior at Bristol. We also played together on Elco All-Star baseball team one summer. Later I went to work for him at Precision Stamping for two years before I moved to Indianapolis in 2007.My thoughts and prayers go out to Todd ,Brian and Brad.Love You All

When Jim & Dave were in high school at Bristol, they were both brothers in spirit with my brother/cousin Tom Albright. They all were in sports together and quite often ate dinner with us. Don & Kate were wonderful parents and friends with my entire family. Then they would shoot hoops in our backyard where we.had a special basket ball hoop (smaller than regulation) to make them all better athletes! We would all have wonderful dinners after the basketball games. It was a magical time, and...