Grandfather of Perry Belcher

John Belle I think that if I had anybody in life that I modeled my life after as much as I could, that would be my grandfather. He was the best man that I ever knew. He was honest, he was decent, he was caring and he was always there for you no matter what, no matter how much trouble you got in, no matter how bad the situation was he was always there. And he was just an absolutely fabulous man, John Bell. I love him dearly. He passed away couple of years ago and I really miss him. The world is a worst place without him here, I think. He really was a light and I was lucky to know him. I couldn’t have been a better grandfather to us, he was absolutely kind.

By the way, out of all the grandchildren I was the only grand child that had a particular distinction. We call my grandfather “Pa John” and he was always super sweet all of us kids gave us everything we wanted, did about everything he could to spoil us rotten. I was the only one grand kid was a “Pa John” ever spanked. We went to the store one day, I will never forget it. It was over a marketing thing which is funny as I came along later in life find out what I do for a living. I realized how powerful impact he has. We walk up the street to the little store back in when I was growing up in a small town, our grocery store was right up the corner and you just walked to the market. Pick up what you needed and I went up with Pa John one day in the market to pick up some groceries and a few things, and Lifebuoy soap had a little toy boat tied to this I think 8 or 10 bars of soap and I was determined I was going to get that little toy boat and I threw an absolute fit to get the toy boat and screamed for my grandfather to buy all that soap so I can get that stupid little boat on top of it and I figured if I threw a big enough fit that he would get it and he would never spank me no matter what I did. Well I was wrong! I pushed his button a little too hard, I got a spanking and it wasn’t much of a spanking it didn’t hurt but it my feelings more than anything else and it scared me to death that my Pa John would spank me. But I think that he went ahead after he spanked me and I went back home he felt so bad about it, went back of the store bought all the soap and got me the boat anyway. I was that spoiled but he was a fabulous man. And I know he’s an angel today.