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| When "Sleepy" (a nickname he acquired in high school when he had undiagnosed bouts with Narcolepsy and his pals would not let him escape) died on Wednesday, we lost a good friend and classmate from CHS-57. He left us and Cradock on a football scholarship to VMI, studied Physics and became a teacher on several levels for many years of his life. He lived in West Point, Virginia until his retirement from Virginia State University. He moved home to North Carolina and located with his wife, Ann, in Hertford about 15 years ago. For several years Sleepy was a regular at Cradock's Maroon and Gold Club which has met monthly at Mario's since 2005. Sleepy died after a long illness. Four years ago in March he became ill on a vacation trip to Las Vegas and remained in hospital there for nearly a month until he recovered enough to travel by air home. Since then he has faced a series of maladies that he has endured and he has been wheel-chair bound for a year. He had great wit and charmed us and will not forget the many childhood memories we made with him. He was a strong man, a good athlete and under a gruff exterior showed a heart of gold. He will be missed. The Earth does not belong to Man. Man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected, like the blood, which unites one family. We do not weave the web of life. We are but a strand in the web of life. What we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things are connected. Chief Seattle
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