Jody Talks About Dad

Jody_Fuller_and_DadI’ve written about my Dad here for Father’s Day, but thought that Jody Fuller’s column in the Observer this week might be worth sharing instead: From Jody… It’s often been said that anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a dad. My dad was a real man, and I don’t mean just because he had a mustache. Before losing his eyesight to diabetes in 1974, he was a barber. Since there’s little demand for blind barbers these days, he needed some help and enrolled in the Alabama School for the Blind in Talladega.  Read more about him here!

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on June 16, 2013. View the original page.

Author: Jerry Katz

Jerry Katz is the creator of Opelika Daily News. A former broadcaster, he has been writing about Opelika for more than twenty years — first as a blogger, now as the one-person newsroom behind this site. He curates the region's local news daily, writes the Katz Ramblings column and the weekly From the Archives look-back, and maintains an archive of more than 3,200 posts reaching back to 2002. He lives in Opelika. Reach him at jerry@opelikadailynews.com.

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