I've got to make another correction to the story, it seems my memory isn't as good as I'd like it to be. The Dad didn't commit suicide, I got that confused with a deacon of the church evidently. The mom was the one that went crazy and killed herself a couple of years later. He died in 2006. I found his Obit.
SHUMATE, XXXX XXXXX - age 68 of Maryville, passed away Thursday September 7,
2006 at U.T. Medical Center. .. .. . Preceded in death by wife, Linda xxx
Shumate, son, Danny Shumate,
As a funny note, his family didn't list his first wife's name in his obit, the one stricken by grief, just his second wife Linda.
I knew the insides of the story because of my friendship with the daughter later in college. This was a huge catalyst in changing my (then) christian bigoted mind about gay people.
SHUMATE, XXXX XXXXX - age 68 of Maryville, passed away Thursday September 7,
2006 at U.T. Medical Center. .. .. . Preceded in death by wife, Linda xxx
Shumate, son, Danny Shumate,
As a funny note, his family didn't list his first wife's name in his obit, the one stricken by grief, just his second wife Linda.
I knew the insides of the story because of my friendship with the daughter later in college. This was a huge catalyst in changing my (then) christian bigoted mind about gay people.
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