11/03/2023
10-03-23
For those that need or want to know,
A long time friend, you might say brother, Dean “Bugs” Marrone, passed away this week. Same age as me, 58.
His funeral will be where I pastor, Memorial Baptist Church, In Hackett, Ar
72937. At 1:00 pm
If you would like to bring food, that would be fine.
The Lord gives and takes away.
We are only here for awhile.
Make best use of it.
Pastor Mike Dugan
Marrone and I in the Navy 1973
We joined 3 days after the draft was over, we dropped out of school 3 months before we were supposed to graduate the 12 th grade. We took the GED. We were both 17. We spent the 11th and 12th grade in the first half day high school, half day college, (West Ark),
Welding dept. Classes taught.
Now I’ve been teaching the same classes, (WATC), at UAFS, for 16 years.
The classes helped us both become Navy
Seabees, in the MCB 71 construction battalion.
We were in the only ice battalion.
He went to the South Pole and I went AWOL.
You might say I was the bad one at that time.
We would flip that behavior back and forth for most of our lives.
He was most always a blessing to me.
Haha
He had a relationship with Jesus when he passed.
Thank you Jesus
