Bobby Jones

I have a couple of things in common with the famous golfer Bobby Jones. He loved the game of golf. And all the challenges it presents to the human soul and the development of one’s character.
Later in his life, he got the dreaded spinal cord disorder Syringomyelia, the same thing I have in my spine.

We have very few choices except having shunts or drains placed in the spinal cord to relieve pain from pressure building up in the spinal cord. We live our lives as best we can while nerves get destroyed from the inside. Bobby Jones lived to be 70 years old; I am currently 79. My golf ended forty years ago, but I get a lot of enjoyment out of watching it on television.

When the game first got started, it became a test of rules and an honor system. It has become a powerful tool for individuals to form and build special characters. It all comes down to choices you make the right choice, or the wrong choice you become stronger or weaker in conscience.

“In 1948, Bobby Jones got diagnosed with Syringomyelia. It is a fluid-filled cavity in the spinal cord that causes crippling pain, then paralysis; he eventually got restricted to a wheelchair. He died in Atlanta on December 18, 1971, three days after converting to Catholicism. Jones was baptized on his deathbed by Monsignor John D. Stapleton, pastor of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, and attended by the Jones family. His burial was in Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery. Jones became inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.”

Service to Country










Kenneth Wayrynen served in the Philippine Islands, Japan and Korea.

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Betty Grape

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Marvin Wayrynen served all over Europe.


Edmond Wayrynen on left Belgium 1944

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Marvin Wayrynen in Germany 1945.

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Arthur Wayrynen served in Alaska and Aleutian Islands.

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Wayno Wayrynen was in the Battle of the Bulge.