James Harold Darnell Sr.

Just sitting here and watching news about Dallas Holocaust Museum getting street signs named after Max Glauben who spoke at my jr high school 1977-78 and started thinking about all they went thru and Darnell popped in my memory. I was working with my dad in Plano and built house pads for Metropolitan Savings and Development around 1984-85 and was out on a job when a elderly coworker said "you see that big white haired gentleman" he was in the Bataan Death March and it turned his hair white. I...

My Creat Grandpa is a strong man, as I have been told. I haven't seen him alot, but I love him so much. When I found out about his death, I wanted to cry. I wanted to cry with all my heart. I told myself that he was in a better place. I knew God would take care of him. I miss him & wish I got to spend more time with him. I love him very much.

My grandfather's life journey was indeed an amazing one. You needed to look no further than his strong, weathered, enormous, BEAUTIFUL hands to know much about his story. He was a builder. His humble masonry beginnings in Georgia and his incredible ambition took him to Dallas where he quickly achieved great success in custom home building; of course, writing his OWN rulebook along the way. He earned numerous top honors in real estate at the local, state, and national level for sales,...