There has been no word about Larry since graduation, but here is what I knew about Larry. I believe that his family was from California, and moved here in about Larry's junior year. His parents had the first fast food franchise in Foley by many years: the Dairy Queen. I believe that they sold out a few years later.
August 3, 2002
I just spent a week in Foley. I read all of the old Onlookers from May 1959 to May 1961. In March 16, 1961, the paper mentioned him as a navy seaman on the ship USS Intrepid, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Sergent.
I went to Bay Minette and looked for land or deed records of the parents selling their property, since I thought that they moved in the eary 1960's. I found that they sold in March, 1962, and the deed indicated that Larry's mother's name was Jeannie.
I searched the Social Security death records and found that both died in August, 1986 in Acworth, GA (was it an accident?)
I searched for funeral homes and newspapers in the area, and have written to a library to search the obituaries in one of the papers. Hopefully, by the end of August, I will learn where Larry was in 1986.
Feb., 2003
After a great deal of unsucessful searching for Larry, I found him in January. When I was in Foley for the mini-reunion, I borrowed the 1960, 61 and 62 yearbooks to scan. Kay Irwin, that provided the yearbooks, graduated in 1961. They had a reunion last year and had a list of classmates with addresses. One of those classmates was Ann Sergent, sister of Larry.
I contacted and learned that Larry lived near by, outside of Atlanta.
Larry joined the Navy in 1959 and served for eight years. He was on two aircraft carriers, the USS Intrepid and the US Randolph. He went in as a ship fitter (working with pipes), then a flight yeoman, then a legal yeoman, then communications, operating a teletype machine.
Two years before he got out, he was in Hawaii as a diving instructor - not in the ocean, but in training tanks or chambers.
He spent three months off Vietnam in a destroyer, the Brinkley Bass DD-887, when it was hit by a torpedo, killing 13 men.
After the Navy, he worked with AT&T in California repairing phones for a short time, then moved to Pennsylvania and drove a truck for McLean Trucking.
Then he moved to Reno and drove a charter bus 1980-1985.
He spent two years in California �dredging� for gold. (The dredge would fit in a pickup). He found enough gold to buy his own tractor and trailer (18 wheeler) and drove it until 1990. He worked with Saddler Brothers 1990-2000 carrying the mail by 18 wheelers.
Larry has problems with circulation in his legs. In 1990, he had a bypass in the main artery to the legs. In 2000 and 2001 he had five more bypasses in his legs. He was declared disabled in 2000.
While in the Navy, he travelled to the Med twice with stops in Italy, France, Greece and Spain. He also travelled to the east while in Vietnam.
Larry�s hobby was buying and fixing up cars until his health stopped him.
He has been married five times. He has two children by the first wife; Sherri and Dwayne.
Sherri was born in 1962, lives in Pittsburgh and has a boy and a girl. Dwayne was born in 1969, lives in Pittsburgh and has three boys, including twins.