Nov 23, 2015
Last Wednesday morning when I walked into Angie's Diner in Midway Amy the waitress rushed to me and gave me a little hug as she explained that Ricky Phillips had called early that morning to announce that Jimmy Smith had died. After quickly saying that a shock ran through the kitchen and they were pondering over the news Ricky called again to say he had the wrong Jimmy and in fact it had been Jimmy Sasser who died. Jimmy and I both were native liberty countians and our whole lives had been spent in the Mcintosh Community which is at about the center of the county. Jimmy was one year behind me in age as I was born in April of 1943 and Jimmy Sasser was born on July 7,1944. Knowing Ricky Phillips as I do it is easy to see how he got confused as after all we both had the same first names and anybody could make that mistake when reporting the news of someone's death. It was one of those Jimmy's from McIntosh lets spread the news.
