Sequoyah High School Alumni
Tahlequah, Oklahoma (OK)
In Memory of
Bill "stoney" Mclemore
Passed away 2009
Bill "stoney" Mclemore attended Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, OK.
Class of 1972
Date of Passing Nov 30, 2009
Date of Passing Nov 30, 2009
Dean Thompson (Seq. Class of 1971) ~ Billy (Stoney) McLemore (Class of 72) passed away on 11/30/09 and they had his funeral on 12/4/09. I was there, a lot of his friends were there.
Stoney was my roommate/teammate my senior year. He was a very athletic, and he did love to run, one weekend Stoney and I ran to his home in Stilwell from Sequoyah. I never could stay up with him. When we got to his house, I took my shoes off and my toes were all blistered and bloody but we made it. We were training for the Okie Marathon which was a 41 mile relay across the OK panhandle. Coach Sumner drove us (Noah Timothy-State Champion, Willie Jumper-state contender, Stoney-state contender and myself and a college group from NSU), all night to Elkhart, Kansas. We got there with about 10 minutes to spare. Stoney ran the 1st leg and he had about 2 minutes to warm-up, you can imagine 9 people in a station wagon and about a 7-8 hour drive all cramped up then warming up for 2 minutes and then run 10 1/4 miles but that was the kind of person Stoney was, he was very determined. And yes we won and broke the old record , we even beat the college division times which ran an hour later.
Sorry about that, but you know how we start reminiscing when we talk about our time/friends at Sequoyah. I don't know how former students feel about their time at a public school but I know at a boarding school there seems to be a special bond between students (former, present, and future)! We are like family!
Stoney was my roommate/teammate my senior year. He was a very athletic, and he did love to run, one weekend Stoney and I ran to his home in Stilwell from Sequoyah. I never could stay up with him. When we got to his house, I took my shoes off and my toes were all blistered and bloody but we made it. We were training for the Okie Marathon which was a 41 mile relay across the OK panhandle. Coach Sumner drove us (Noah Timothy-State Champion, Willie Jumper-state contender, Stoney-state contender and myself and a college group from NSU), all night to Elkhart, Kansas. We got there with about 10 minutes to spare. Stoney ran the 1st leg and he had about 2 minutes to warm-up, you can imagine 9 people in a station wagon and about a 7-8 hour drive all cramped up then warming up for 2 minutes and then run 10 1/4 miles but that was the kind of person Stoney was, he was very determined. And yes we won and broke the old record , we even beat the college division times which ran an hour later.
Sorry about that, but you know how we start reminiscing when we talk about our time/friends at Sequoyah. I don't know how former students feel about their time at a public school but I know at a boarding school there seems to be a special bond between students (former, present, and future)! We are like family!