John William Rainbolt

Today I said goodbye to "Grandaddy", I will truly miss him and will always remember everything he ever taught me. I lived with Grandaddy for most of my High School years and without him I would have never passed Pre Algebra or any of my math classes for that matter, even though he went the long way about solving a math problem he always came out with the right answer. Some of grandaddy's famous saying that I remember are "dad gummit" and "dadburnit" and when you came for a visit to his and...

My GrandDaddy was definately a man to be respected and admired. In my my eyes, he is the greatest man to ever walk this earth. He was not judgemental, he was forgiving, and he was always truthful. No one could tell a story better than him. He helped raise many of his grandchildren, me being one of them. Now this is after he had already raised 8 children of his own. The harshest words I have heard him utter was "By Jingos" which meant he was really mad! The other was "By Gosh" this just meant...