Ronn Spinner Remembers His Brother Rocky and their Childhood with Grandmother Susie Neal in Bluemont

Mrs. and Mr. Falknor,

How are you?  Haven’t spoken for quite some time. So much has taken place in my life at such a fast pace I find myself lost here and there. But because of my faith in God and good, I always bounce back.

Rocky G. Spinner during the Bluemont Fair at the E.E Lake Store with Susan Freis Falknor, on Saturday, September 20, 2014

Our dear brother Rocky visited the cabin [Snickersville Academy] around late September, [during the Bluemont Fair] with Aunt Susie [Sue Gibson Colbert] and some of my other relatives.

I did not make it due to other obligations, although I wish I had come. Something strange was taking place all along, beyond mere human capacity.

Rocky just had to be there, as he said many times after his visit. He called me on his way back from there and said….

”Ronn, it was so nice just being there where mom & Grandma Susie were, and it felt like home”….

Well, Mrs. Falknor,  .. our dear brother passed three days later at the young age of 56. We have pictures of his last visit to the cabin enlarged and he was waving from the window of the cabin as if he knew he was going home to be with mom. That was October the eighth! Dad passed just recently also only three weeks later, and he often talked about the cabin.

My mind often goes back to my youthful days of Bluemont and I see Rocky and all of us running up  & down the pike heading to what was called Mr. Mann’s grocery store, cashing in pop bottles for penny candy and pop.

Thank you so much for keeping me (us) in connection with all our fond memories of such a wonderful time & place. I will be coming through real soon just to reminisce a little more…

Ronn Spinner Sr.