Remembering My Friend George |
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On Friday October 7th 2016 I lost my closest friend George Subasic.
I knew George for 46 years, from the
time I first met him at the age of
11, watching me practice
football (Reynolds 1968 Team) up to the present
when he was helping me with the
Reynolds Wrestling web- site.
I have a lot of memories with George
and will share a few of them. |
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He was the only kid that
was allowed in our
varsity basketball
practices (Reynolds 1969
Team), which was a big
deal as practices were
closed to only the team
and the coaches.
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As an 8th grader he helped my mother, Norma Williams (former Reynolds bus driver) and
myself coach the Reynolds Girls Basketball team (girls basketball
at Reynolds did not become a school sponsored sport until 1973). |
We ran a Girls Basketball Camp in the late 70s in Dayton PA. |
Also in the late 70's he would come down to WV where I was teaching
5th grade and we would
go to the State Boys
Basketball Tournaments. |
In 1994-95 we coached a varsity boys and girls basketball team at a Christian school in Sharon. |
During his time in Texas he would play pick-up games at the local
recreation center where
on several occasions he
played against Deon
Saunders (Dallas Cowboys
at the time) and Mark
McGuire, a former NBA
player for the New York
Knicks. |
George was also a PIAA Basketball official, officiating basketball games in the local area
for a number of years. |
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In the early 80s we took a motorcycle trip (he had a Yamaha Eleven
Hundred Special and I
had a 900 BMW) to Virginia Beach then up to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA and then to Cooperstown, NY to see the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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He also helped out in my video business, ACW Productions, from time to time, helping to film weddings and business projects. I
especially remember him helping with a project I did for Wheatland Tube in which the video would show truckers how to put on a safety harness when un-strapping their
flat bed loads. This was done outside in January with a temperature of -5 degrees. |
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During his truck driving days over the road (coast to coast), he
drove for Schneider
Trucking and Green Arrow
Trucking Companies among
others. I remember
during those years that
he would give me a call
in PA in the middle of
the night (it worked out
ok as I am a late night
guy) to have someone to
talk to to stay awake or
kill time until he could
get to the next rest
area or his next drop
off or pickup. In the
last few years he had his
own trucks and started a
small trucking company
called Franklin Trucking
which he hauled cross
country and also hauled
sand for gas wells in
eastern PA. |
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George and I also were counselors together at a Baptist Church camp called Camp Judson on Lake Erie. |
Throughout our time together our personal relationship with Jesus Christ and our desire to grow as Christians was the foundation of our friendship. |
He will be deeply missed by me and many, many others.
Art Williams |
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