Flashback: Vern's Funeral 1989

On August 23, 1989, Marla's cousin Cyndy called Marla on the phone while she was in San Francisco and said that Cyndy's brother Vern died of alcohol poisoning. He was 41. His best friend Robert Pressley was in Bristol finishing 20th two days later praying for Vern. Before that, he told Cleta Medders that he and Vern were the birthday boys whose birthday was on April 8. Vern was a lifelong bachelor.

On August 26, Marla went to Asheville for a funeral with her mother Margaret and five of six brothers, Jim, Johnny, Duane, Arlie and Cleta's husband Harold. Marla was sitting in the pew with Harold and Cleta, and in the back, it was Robert. After the service was over, Robert had a chat with Marla outside before the gravesite in Asheville.

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