Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins Archived Message
Posted by Daryl Hallquist on May 5, 2008, 7:53 am, in reply to "Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins"
I just heard this morning about John's death. I considered him a good friend. Years ago, maybe in the early 90s, when I was still living in Alaska, John called me to talk about Baker shotguns. He mentioned he was from Texas and I said that my son was going to school there in Austin and that he had a nice Paragon that I had given him. John said that he was always in Austin for work related trips and that he would just invite my son to dinner sometime so they could talk about Bakers etc. Later they did get together in Houston and they had a fun meal, as I recall. John was still interested in Bakers and my son said that John could take his Paragon home with him and look at it until he was done. Some months later my son, Aron, got the Paragon back. John had "looked" enough. In April of this year John had called me again to ask about Bakers. I mentioned that Aron was getting married in Austin. John, said " well, I will just invite myself. Have them send me an invitation and I will be there." The invitation was sent and Aron and his bride, Lilly, were charmed that John would want to come bad enough the he would ask for an invitation. On April 18 this year John showed up at the wedding near Lake Travis. He was in good humor, as always, and we even had time to talk about guns and John was trying to convince me that "we" should write a book on Bakers. After the wedding we talked again, and John stated how much he had enjoyed himself and that he felt 30 years younger, just being in the festivities. We laughed about feeling 30 years younger and I guess I will always remember that time.
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Message Thread:
- John O. Houchins Obituary - Jim Stubbendieck May 2, 2008, 3:43 pm
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - TABS May 31, 2008, 4:53 am
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - SFC Dunlap May 8, 2008, 1:44 am
- Re: John O. Houchins - John W Houchins May 5, 2008, 9:43 pm
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - John Davis May 5, 2008, 7:50 pm
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - Walton Starling May 5, 2008, 7:28 pm
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - Tom Archer May 5, 2008, 4:26 pm
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - Chick May 5, 2008, 9:50 am
- Re: John O. Houchins Obituary - SFC Dunlap May 4, 2008, 10:54 pm
- Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins - John Liles May 3, 2008, 6:38 am
- Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins - Mike Lewis May 2, 2008, 7:55 pm
- Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins - Jason G. Harrison May 2, 2008, 5:09 pm
- Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins - SFC Dunlap May 2, 2008, 4:53 pm
- Re: Untimely Passing of John O. Houchins - Chris Baumohl May 2, 2008, 4:13 pm
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