John David Grady III

To My Dear Grady Family:
I want to share a story with you I call "The Last Christmas at Mamie´s" around 1956 in Pink Hill, N. C. There was John David, Carroll and I running around playing cowboys and Indians outside in Mamie´s and Granddaddy Howard´s yard. We all three had cowboy hats, BB air rifles and rode the big old gas tanks as our horses. It´s hard to believe now, but we actually ran around shooting BB´s at each other without a care in the world. John David and I both had a hard time keeping up with Carroll, but we tried. It was the best Christmas I can remember as a child and the last time I got to see Carroll alive. His death devastated us all and left us feeling like a piece of us was missing, especially John David. However, "The Last Christmas" gave me the best memories ever of my special day with John David and Carroll that I carry with me always!
My thoughts and prayers are with you all and know that if everyone was as good a person as John David this world would be a much better place to live in! Love you all and my heart is full of sadness with the loss of our beloved John David!

Love You All!!
William Southerland Cunningham III
Augusta, Georgia