John R. Ligon Jr.

John was born in Houston, Texas in 1923 and lived there all but two years of the next seventy years. He, his parents and his sole sibling, Manning, lived near the edge of current downtown Houston which had a population of 140,000. He still fondly recalled childhood stories and long lost friends’ names in his 90’s including simple fun like rubber gun battles, playing baseball with a single bat and…