John (Jack) Herbert Luckert (6 May 1906-30 January 1994)

Dad always accused me of loving Mom more, so I certainly have to give him the same birthday memorial I gave her. At three with curls and his two older brothers, Rich(ard) the taller, and Chet (Chester).

At the left rear, he looks teen-aged or not much beyond, here with his dad, George, and, I think, Vern and Clark Stocking in the overalls. Vern was married to Aunt Lizzie (Elizabeth Mae), Dad's sister. Evelyn Stocking Davids (sister of Clark, daughter of Vern) identified the man in the suit as Joe Bruhn, husband to Dad's sister Evelyn, the dog as Jiggs, the place as the Chevalier northwest of Bloomfield.

We have a picture of the Morrillville baseball team, but this is Dad's day. He was well-known as a pitcher, and baseball was always his great love, why he went to Omaha to work and move up in the sport until he got hurt (and why it has remained my favorite sport). He managed Center's baseball team many of my childhood years and, much later, my sister Sue's softball team.