Cindy and Doug at HUBfest in downtown Hattiesburg, MS (fall of 2002)
Cindy
Morris
More photos of the two of us
Cindy and Doug at HUBfest in downtown Hattiesburg, MS (fall of 2002)
Cindy and Doug at the Food, Home and Health Show
south of Hattiesburg (spring of 2003).
Cindy enjoyed
cross-stitching and was kind
enough to make this cross-stitch of the RockTrax logo.
I nicknamed Cindy "Miss Circle".
When we met
online, I was in the midst of reading Peter Marshall's
book entitled Backstage With The Original
Hollywood Square.
As the title would imply, the book is Peter's look back at the original
15-year-run of Hollywood Squares -- which aired on NBC from 1966-1981.
When Cindy and I traded pictures of each other online, here's what she gave me...
...a picture of her "framed" inside of a circle.
Now, if
you've watched Hollywood Squares
-- either in its original form
or the '80s version with John Davidson or its most recent revival with
Tom Bergeron
at the helm -- you know, unless its a tournament or a special week of
shows,
every game is played with nine celebrities (at least) and a male and
female contestant.
The male
would always play the X's and the female would be represented by the
O's or "circles". Thus, the contestants would be nicknamed "Mr. X" and
"Miss Circle".
Our marriage came to an end January 10, 2007 when she died after
suffering two
seizures in three days. In Heaven, Cindy is reunited with her
father, Marvin
Houdeshell,
who died more than a decade ago, as well as Dr. Larry
Kennedy, who served as
president of William Carey University (more on her
work at WCU can be found here).
Cindy, I
love you always and forever. It was a joy, honor and privilege to know
you for
four and a half years — whether as a lunch date, a friend, your
boyfriend,
your fianc� or ultimately your husband of one and a half
years.
I would not
trade those four and a half years for anything.
