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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

Some of the families that I recall from eating lunch at their houses on Sundays on the weekends when I
would accompany my dad, was the Adam’s family, the Geiger family, the Swilley family, the Quincy
family, and the Faircloth family, and some others whose names I do not recall at age 83.

1 have every intent of getting in my car one Saturday and heading to Levy County, to see if I can still
find Pine Grove Baptist Church. Back in those days all of the roads were sand roads, and I’m sure that
by this time almost all of them are paved, which is not going to contribute to any ease of finding that
church, but one day I will do it.

Again incidentally, one of the young men in that church was Don Geiger, and it turns out that when I
started as Band Director in Lake Butler, that Don Geiger was the Agriculture teacher at Union High
School, and we again renewed our old friendship and he was one of my favorite people at the time I was
Band Director at Union High School.

His wife Juanita, was also from that Pine Grove Community and her family name as I recall was Asbell.

They had one child, a boy named Charles, Jr., and Charles, Jr. was an extremely gifted and intelligent
little boy, during the time I was at Union High School.

When he was 18 or 19, he joined the army, and they sent him to Vietnam. It was especially sad, since he
was the only child of Don and Juanita Geiger that he was killed on the very first night that he spent in
Vietnam. How sad, and what a waste.

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