My Tombstone

 

The problem with tombstones or grave markers is that they never say enough.  The first time I looked at what I would want on my tombstone it took the equivalent of five single space pages.  After I revised it--it became seven pages, so I figured that I would say the many things I want to say (before and after I die) and ask my children to keep and update my webpage (paintbug.com) if I am alive or no longer alive.  I am still around and plan to be around a long time. Here begins my comments:

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My fathers family
My great Grandparents:
    Jacob Linebarger and Susan Linebarger
My Grandparents:
    Luther Jerome Linebarger and Minnie Linebarger
My Father: Emmett Olen Linebarger
My Mother: (name removed) (Cox) Linebarger
My Sister: Sharon Kay Linebarger
    Married name: Sharon Kay Janek
My Wife: Beverly Jean Gillchrest
    Married Name: Beverly Jean Linebarger
My Daughter: Anne Marie Linebarger (who I am very proud of)
    Married Name: Anne Marie Jackson
My Son: Paul Anthony Linebarger (who I am very proud of)
    Named after Apostle Paul
    and
    Paul Anthony Linebarger (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
    Pseudonym: Cordwainer Smith (a distant relative-see links)

       (click below for links)
          Arlington Natl Cemetery
          Linebarger link 1
          Linebarger link 2
          Linebarger link 3

 

Yes, I voted for Bush.

 

I still believe LBJ did it!

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    Smart-alecky Remarks

 

See, I still own property.

 

Grab a shovel,

Dig on down.

Won’t be long, till—

You’re in the ground.

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    Unusual Things I have Done or Become

 

• Shot a rifle the first time at six years of age

• Played thousands of Safe Practical Jokes

• Became a (ham) Amateur Radio Operator  WN5VDQ, then WB5LKW

• Built a working Spark-Gap Transmitter

• Built bugging devices and used them as a teenager

• Built a complex radio receiver

• Built explosive devices as a teenager

• Blew a hole in the wall of my bedroom while in Junior High School.

• Won “Honorable Mention” at Rosemont Jr. High in Ft. Worth, Texas for designing one of the first electronic “insect zappers”.

• Became bored in Junior High School and created my own written languages

• Built and painted a fifteen foot totem and placed it in my front yard during high school
• Highest scoring Junior ROTC cadet on the rifle range who was not a member of the Rifle Team my senior year.

• Studied Ventriloquism—then became one

• Became an Illusionist

• In Outstanding Young Men of America (1980)

• Ran for Fort Worth, Texas City Council—District Six

• Became a field engineer in the petroleum industry

• Wrote various technical books for various companies

• Built Improvised (homemade) Weapons as a hobby—knives, zip guns, other weapons

• Collected Old License Plates
• Licensed Fur Trapper -- King Mountain McCamey, Texas

• Acquired four license plates owned by Lydon Bains Johnson who became President of the United States.

• Met Five Star General, General Omar Bradley

• Met the very elderly wife of Pancho Villa

• Met President George W. Bush when he was a teenager in Midland, Texas

• Met Charlie Pride (a “real” Country and Western Singer)

• Did “259” practical jokes at Howard Payne University without being discovered

• Dated “49” girls at Howard Payne University in one semester

• Became “GO” the Clown—real clown suit and make up.
• Smuggled pro-democracy materials into Russia and the Ukraine prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• Received my BA Degree from University of Texas at Arlington

• Received my MA Degree from Hardin-Simmons University