On “Real News with Rick Outzen,” I spoke with Lumon May, Grover Robinson, Quint Studer, and David Bear about their fathers.
David Bear and I shared stories about his dad, Lewis Bear, Jr.
“I have one voicemail I still have saved from him on my phone – ‘And David call me immediately.’ I can’t tell you how many of those I had. And I would call him, and he’s like, ‘What’s up, dude?'” David said.
“And I’d be like, ‘You just left me an email like your house was on fire, and it was my fault.'”
Former Mayor Grover Robinson IV talked about his father, Grover Robinson III.
He shared one of his favorite memories of his day: “I moved back here in 95, and it was about 1997 when I actually beat him on the tennis court at Roger Scott. And that was a momentous day for me to actually win on the tennis court because that never happened as a child. So that was a big kind of passing of the torch mark. My father, certainly he loved me, he taught me a lot, but he was never going to let me win at anything. I had to earn that.”
Lumon May remembered the great Rev. Theophalis May.
“My father to me was just a great man. His mom died in childbirth; his father died when he was five. He was homeless all the way until he went into the Navy at age 15. He served at Annapolis in the kitchen as a kitchen helper in World War II. And he often said the first time he ever had a pair of shoes, the first time he ever was full was because of going in the Navy. ”
He became an entrepreneur because he didn’t want to work for anybody. He renovated Old Christ Church and the L&N Terminal. Lumon said, “He owned Mays Quarter, he owned a grocery store, he owned the taxi stand and the construction business.”
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