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IN MEMORY |
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Jim " Shot" Estes |
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Some Words from Soupy |
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Jim " Shot" Estes was just "an Old Hippie" from way back... |
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as he told us, he had rode with the best (worst) of them.... He came from down around the St. |
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Charles and Nortonville Kentucky area and rode with several different Bike Clubs... |
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You couldn't find a better candidate for a Rat !... As he got older he decided to settle down |
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here around the Sturgis, Kentucky area, matter of fact , about 3/4 mile from my house... |
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He rode an old Harley that he worked on more than we do our VW trikes. Most of his bike was held together with some ole mining tape I brought from the mines, where I work... |
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Shot was just an "Old Biker" (kinda reminded me of Trader) .He would do anything in the |
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world for you if his back would let him... |
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He had the sweetest little wife, whom we all called "Newt" , don't know why but, we just do... |
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A couple of months ago Shot gotta feelin' bad and decided to see a doc....This doc thought that |
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he found something wrong with Shot and started running some tests..... When Shot went back |
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to the doc. to find out what he had found, ole doc. told Shot that he had two weeks or maybe |
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four to live....He had found cancer....Shot lived 10 days after they found it. Not real sure how |
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old he was... Sometimes he would tell you he was 55 and on his good days he would tell you |
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59....Just don't know. |
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He wouldn't join the "Rats" at first because he thought we were a "Club" but when he found |
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out that we were just a bunch of good ole boys wanting to have a little fun, he signed right up |
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One thing I can say about Shot and this brings me back to the Trader part, he made the best |
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damn Texas Baked Beans I ever put on a plate.....He will be missed by all that knew him... |
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Specially us Rats ! |
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This might be a little long but, that's the way he told you a story.....His stories would be so long |
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he would forget what he was a tellin' ya. |
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Nancy Long: Wife of Odis Long . Member of The Ohio River Rat Pack of Western, KY. Has |
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been with us for about three years now. Died this summer of "unknown" causes... |
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Nancy and Odis were camping on the Ohio River, when Odis found her dead in her bed.. |
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The Rats loved Nancy very much....She was or has been fighting depression for some time now |
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and was starting to come out of it . Some people say the Rats had a little to do with |
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her turn around by giving her love and companionship she needed... She will be missed.. |
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