MEETING MINUTES



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Vol 3 Winter 2004/2005

Volume 3 is finally in print! As you can see from the heading, it’s about 2 months late! No excuses… it’s just my own fault! There’s a lot to cover so I’ll quit beating around the bush. We have going now for a year and a half and we currently have 38 members! Some of us are due a renewal. Please look below your address to check if you owe dues and update your info by calling or emailing me. Also, please make sure your dues are payable to GREG PATTERSON as I cannot cash a check made out to “Carolina Galaxies” yet. By popular demand we will be offering discounts if you renew for multiple years. The dues are as follows: 1 year = $10.00, 3 years = $25.00, 5 years = $40.00. If you already paid for more than one year and want an adjustment, contact me. If you are not renewing, please let me know why… I want your chapter to be the best it can be!

If you don’t have an email address, try to get one! You will hear from me more often! You will get emails on last minute changes, notifications, etc. I still primarily use my home address of gpatterson8@sc.. I’m going to drop the carolinagalaxies@ and carolinagalaxies@ email addresses unless ya’ll want to keep them. Let me know…

Our website is built and will be available on the national club website by the end of the month! I tried to model our site after several others by picking the best features of each one. There’s a section on member’s cars so send in pics of your car if you want them on the site. We will also be posting group pics from our shows and meetings, classified ads, info on local salvage yards and an event calendar! Check it out and let me know what you think! The logo is being completed by Plush Design of Warsaw, MO. and will be in the website soon!

The Galaxie Nationals in Daytona were GREAT! The Florida Chapter did a fantastic job with the whole event! Go to: to see the pics! Little Ginger made it to her first show at the age of 3 months! Her pic is in there too! Check out the sections they have on cars for sale and parts for sale while you’re there! This is something I added to our website as well.

Mary, Ginger and I plan on going to the Galaxie Nationals and would love to see us go up as a group! Travel plans coming in the near future. If there are any good events in your area, let me know and if time permits, I’ll publish it in future chapter newsletters or in the website. If any of you have any pics, articles, or ads you would like published, please forward them to me as well.

The schedule for 2005 is:

Spring Charlotte Auto Fair April 7-10 2005

Lexington SC Mustang and Ford Show April 17 2005

Cruise-in at Dennis Carpenter’s Summer 2005?

Galaxie Nationals in Detroit, MI August 14-16 2005

Fall Charlotte Auto Fair Sept 15-18 2005

James Thomas and I have already agreed to meet at the Lexington, SC show… drop me a line if you plan to go as well. Of course, at the Charlotte Autofair we will meet on the start/finish line at 10:00am on Saturday. If you can’t make it then, just let me know and I’ll arrange to meet you later or move the meeting to the afternoon. Hope you all enjoyed our third newsletter! Let’s make the summer of 2005 the best one yet for Carolina Galaxies!

    Don Poole of Harmony, NC is going through a bone marrow transplant and would love a kind word from each of you. Check out his website at:

As many of you know, L.C Stone Jr. of Hemingway, SC passed Dec 26th after a long battle with cancer. I will conclude this newsletter with the following words provided by his friend, Dick Axlerod of Myrtle Beach, SC.

Greg Patterson

A Few Thoughts about

Lonnie Clarendon “L.C.” Stone, Jr.

In Memoriam

On December 26th, a man that was a dedicated family, spiritual, community, and Ford man lost his long battle with cancer.

I met Lonnie Clarendon Stone, Jr. of Hemingway, SC, when I became a member of a car club in Georgetown. He was a true Southern Gentleman. He introduced himself to me as “L.C. Stone of Hemingway,” and that is how everybody knew him. At that time, I didn’t know he had cancer. We found a common ground between us when he found out I had a 406 Galaxie. It seems that, when he and Ann, his wife, got married back in the early 60s, he had a rust-colored, ‘62, 406 hardtop. It had some Holman and Moody work done to it.

L.C. was such a down-to-earth person that I didn’t realize that he had accomplished many things in his life. He was a past president and member of the Williamsburg Farm Bureau (a 25-year member), a Hemingway Lions Club “1985 Farmer of the Year of Williamsburg County, and a past treasurer of the Winyah Cruisers of Georgetown. He was also a commissioned Kentucky Colonial in 1975 by then Governor Carroll.

When I met him he had a 1975 Chevy convertible, but the hunt was on for another Galaxie. In the meantime, he bought his wife one of the first new T-Birds --- always a Ford man. He would call me and we would check out numbers and thoughts about the cars he was looking at.

Then one day he told me he was driving to Kentucky to look at a Galaxie with his son in-law Matt. Two days later, on the same day he returned, he came home with a restored, 1962 Galaxie XL convertible. It wasn’t a 406, but it was a beautiful Galaxie. You could find him at most cruise-ins and shows, here in North or South Carolina, picking up trophies.

“Cancer” was never mentioned although we knew he must have been hurting. We all remarked at what a strong constitution he had. He was a model to us who complained about minor aches and pains. Then on his birthday a couple of years ago, they found another cancer, but that never got him down. He still cruised with the top down and was looking for the elusive 406. Even though he could not drive his Galaxie in the Hemingway Christmas parade, he had to be in it and one of his friends drove the car with him in it. He new the end was near, but a most important thing he had to do was to take his two grandchildren to Disney World. He said he wanted to see their faces light up at all the things happening there. To see him in a picture taken nine days before his death, you would never have known he was terminally ill.

A short time after he was home, he had to be admitted to the hospital. The end was here - no complaints. He leaves his wife, Marjorie Ann, whom he had shared his life for 40 years. He also leaves: Two children - Daniel and his wife Tammy, and Marjorie Lynn and husband, Matt Smith, and their two children, Tristan and Payton; Sisters - Viola Cribb of Spartanburg, Viva Nell Stone and her husband Donald Wilson of Lexington, and Norma Jean Stone Miller of Pamplico. In the funeral procession, a friend drove his Galaxie. My 406 Galaxie convertible and other classic cars were there according to his wishes.

At the cruise-ins, I still miss that hand on my shoulder like he used to do to get my attention. But I know, when my time comes, I will feel that hand on my shoulder again. When I turn around, there he will be “L.C. Stone of Hemingway” with his hand extended. His ‘62, rust-colored, 406 hardtop Galaxie nearby - ready to talk about Fords, especially Galaxies.

Donations can be made to Johnsonville Rescue Squad, P. O. Box 1021, Johnsonville, SC 29555, or the Midway Baptist Church, 756 Baptist Road, Hemingway, SC 29554.

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L.C. Stone Jr. and his beautiful white 1962 Galaxie 500 Convertible. May 2004

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