At 6 years old Dad was “a momma’s boy.” Dad did not believe in PREDESTINATION,
but he always said he believed in “MOMMA DESTINATION.” She said before he was born,
“He will be red headed, a preacher, and will be named Jack (after Jack Dempsey) and Hardeman (after N.B. Hardeman… Dempsey was a fighter and Hardeman was a preacher so Dad was a “red-headed fighting preacher!”