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. 

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.
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.

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.

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.  

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.  

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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