January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

James ! He was a positve force for all of us in many ways !!|
|7/14/02 12:12:41 AM|Paul Maduros|midwest||pama42@yahoo.com||||10|To all the
Quarry family, you have my deepest sympathy. I just met James over the net in
1998 and now he's been taken from us all. I just don't understand life. The
greatest gift I ever had is being able to tell James how strongly I felt about
Jerry and now James has been taken. My biggest regret is that I never got to
meet him in person. What a great person James was , I will miss him deeply. God
take of you James, we will meet someday.|
|7/14/02 03:03:20 AM|Kent|La Habra,Ca||oriononside@aol.com||||10|It was nice to
see the Quarrys yesterday. Jim's service was very good and the family was very
nice to me, even though they were missing their loved one. I think Jim was
there though, smiling down on his family. Oh by the way, Mike if you read this,
I am going to practice up on pool and whip you next time. You had the home
field advantage, you are used to the Bakersfield sun. |
|7/14/02 03:59:06 AM|Evren|London||@||||10|Couple of interesting things I heard
on Jerry recently...I was watching a tape of Larry Holmes vs Rodney Bobick which
was on the undercard of the Thriller in Manila and Ken Norton was the
commentator along with Don Dunphy. Don mentioned to Kenny that he ws excellent
against Jerry to whivh Norton responded 'I was lucky. I had an excellent night'.
I thought that was quite interesting. In another fight Liston vs Clark - Liston
mentions in his afterfight interview that he wanted a fight with Jerry Quarry as
Jerry had shown a willingness to fight him. Does anyone know if negotiations
ever got underway etc..?|
|7/14/02 10:00:38 AM|Bob Bumbera|N.C.||renfbera@aol.com||||10|I was out of town
last week and did not have a chance to log on. My deepest sympathy to all the
Quarry's and may James rest in peace.|
|7/14/02 03:03:29 PM|Slade|Oregon||info@ptctel.com||||10|Evren, a couple years
back there was some postings on this site discussing the issue of a Quarry-
Liston fight. There was some very interesting postings. Based on comments
made, idealy the fight would have occured in 1968 - Liston was still strong, but
on his was out - and Jerry was on his way up. If I recall correctly though, in
reality, the fight did not occur because there was no significant demand for it
at the time (circa 1968) - I think it would have been a very interesting fight
though. |
|7/14/02 10:51:17 PM|Sonia Hathaway(Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia81@aol.com||||10|Dad, I love you and will miss you always. You are the
best. Kent, it was nice to meet you at my Father's Services. Now Dad, and
Uncle Jerry, are together again, taking care of each other.|
|7/15/02 07:36:12 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||jgschultz@firstam.com||||10|I just
wanted to say I'm truly impressed with the sense of family and mutual support at
this site, especially being expressed at this time. I became a fan of Jerry's as
a kid who found this athlete as someone I liked more than most others of so many
in the early 70's, often reading of his sense of family, of the Quarrys as a
whole. I had to age a little myself to appreciate the real value of that. There
are, and have been, some great families in sports, not just of families who
produce surprising sibling performers, but also of those who sacrifice so that
others can be the stars we so much enjoy. Not everyone, especially in this age
of glitz, cash and excess, gets just how important family is to everyone, let
alone entertainment superstars. I bet even the great Ali must have been truly
impressed with the spirit of unity represented by the Quarrys when he first met
them. Wins and losses aside, I come away from these recent entries impressed
that this family knows that their greatness in supporting one another makes them
all a champion, which is how it should be. Quarrys, you represent well.|
|7/15/02 11:11:06 PM|steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|Gerry,well said! I
once read somewhere a writer referring to the Quarrys as a " Steinbeckian
clan".I guess he was talking about the "Grapes Of Wrath" novel about Oklahoma
families migrating to California during the dust bowl depression days of the