Now
it’s her career and family and destiny are seemingly being destroyed in
the grips of the unrelenting PS.
The years pass. Sunbelt’s world expands into two distinct, unique businesses.
(1) “Sunbelt Beverage Parts” (www.sunbeltbevparts.com) maintains the largest selection of beverage-delivery body and trailer repair parts in America. Today G2 is its operations manager, valiantly assisted by Messrs. Jerry Moore, Patrick Carey, Bryan Scott and for years by Carolyn Shaffer and, now, Reggie (Regina) Williams--and our Suzzano.
(2) Sunbelt Sports, America’s most unique college store, began with Suzzano, but was built around Judy DuVall, who I called "Bitter Sweet", in its design and concept.
Then Paula Roberts became “The Third Administration,” nicknamed St. Paula.
Then the fourth was the "old lady from the home," Charlene Gardner lost to us last June 2006, There areeulogies to Charlene and Judy at SunbeltSports.com.
Now the Fifth, a combo of Denise Henry and Billy Wheeler (who is called G3 by his mates) and 20-plus more citizens of Sunbelt Sports are with us today..
All of them are looked over by Susan’s and my brother, the Great Hays, Jim Hays, and his office manager, Susan Langdon, who was always one of the Suzzano’s most outspoken advocates.
Susan
Langdon said to me recently, “I can’t say enough about how much
work Susan Vance could put out or
how accurate it was. How could Susan be
so conflicted against what we think is normal and produce work that is so
correct in every way???”
Or, as my sainted Scottish mother would say, “Quality, without quantity, is little thoughtof.”
While I was writing these words about Suzzano, I asked Noah Webster about “legacy.” He answered that a “legacy is a gift handed down to others, an accomplishment, a memory that others could revere.”
Is
there such a legacy for Susan? Yes, there most certainly is.
Susan had no enemies, but I did!
In its enthusiasm to defeat me, a law firm representing the Federal National Mortgage Association filed a wrongful forclosure suit against Susan and me. During the process, the FNMA's lawyers learned three things: (1.) Susan lived apart from me. (2.) Susan was mentally ill and (3.) The Vance's had a defense, a very solid defense.
The law firm huffed, puffed, strutted their stuff, snorted and at the day before the trial---aborted their wrongful suit. But they weren't done. The Vance defense had to begotten around, or in other words, the law firm was going to win at any cost. How? They did refile their foreclosure, a week later, and then they did claim that they only served Susan. It was a putative claim only, no actual papers given her, just claim that she was served. Why? I believe her denial---she was mentally affected and therefore vulnerable.
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