Steve Jones Lone Star Racer

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Tomorrow is the memorial service for Steve. I suspect there will not be many boat racers there. It's been a number of years since he raced boats, but I understand he was a very active handball player and had numerous friends from that sport. We will represent Steve as best we can. The early core racers that Steve and I started with are all gone, and only a few are around to call on. Prior to his memorial, and seeing who might be able to make it, I am going to post pictures from the old days.

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Steve Wetherbee and I were the only boat racers to attend Steve's funeral, but it was clear from the many attendees and the priest that Steve's boat racing adventures were well known. There were some newspaper articles posted at the entrance. When I introduced myself to a couple of guys greeting people at the entrance, they said, "We know who you are. Steve told us a lot of stories about the both of you". One said "Look... here's you right here." And he took me over to one of the newspaper articles and pointed out my name. They were all enthusiastic about Steve's boat racing career because he must have filled them in on a lot of exciting times when he was in one of the Men's Club retreats. Steve ended up being a leader of the Men's Club at his church and was at one time the President. Steve was always a participant, organizer, leader, and or top dog. He wasn't a bystander. Here are a few more pictures of Steve

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A few more pictures of Steve

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I still have many more pictures of Steve and friends, but I also have many stories. I have way to many to tell at one sitting, so I will start out slow. This one is not much, but it kind of tells about our frame of mind and the way we were back then.

We were hooked solid into racing, and back then all our racing friends not only were into alky racing, but also followed NASCAR, Indy Cars and sometimes Formula 1. Steve and I were fans of all.

Steve and I had just left a sports retailer arranging for a hundred or so light blue windbreakers with red and white racing stripes and a Lone Star Boat Racing Association patch on the back to be picked up soon. I was driving my 72 Blue chevy Malibu. We were on Leopard Street in Corpus Christi, and I was just about to enter IH 37 to head back to Steve's house when a news alert came on the radio that Peter Revson was killed in Germany. We looked at each other in shock. It was not normal for anything to do with racing to be announced on the radio. Then the news stated that he was heir to the Revlon Cosmetic company. That explained why they cut in to make the announcement, but Steve and I were stunned. I didn't get on the interstate. I just drove around while we talked about it, and I winded around the streets until we got to Steve's home. That's just the was it was back then when it came to racing.