Remember fathers

The photo is of Beacon Journal newsroom retiree Tom Moore and his late father in Tazewell, Virginia.

Tom Moore & his father

Says Tom: “He was stern and kept me on the right road and he was kind and a great dad. He's been gone 50 plus years, but I still miss him. That's a real dad to you.”

Notice that young Tom wore bib overalls, which the legendary Fran Murphey made famous in Ohio decades later.

BJ reporter Jim Carney’s mother was born in Honaker, Virginia in 1921, which is 25 miles from Tazewell.

John S. Knight was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, which is only 20 miles from where Tom grew up in Tazewell. And where Tom worked on the Bluefield Telegraph after he grew out of the bib overalls.

Both JSK and Tom wound up at the Akron Beacon Journal. Jack Knight got there about a half-century before Tom.