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CASEY AND LUCILLE JONES
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BY SUSAN USHER
After service one Sunday noon at Sabbath Home Baptist
Church, the preacher turned to introduce the couple
to a friend. "These are the Walkers," he said.
"No, we're the Joneses," the two interjected. It
was the kind of honest mistake anyone could have made,
they acknowledged later, because in the Holden Beach
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as "the walkers."
"Anyone who has lived around here for anytime
knows who they are." said Johnny Craig, whose family
operates two causeway businesses near the Joneses'
home on Fulford Avenue. "There are days when 1
wouldn't even go running that they're out walking."
When they first moved here in 1975. offers of rides
came frequently from passing motorists. But in the past
five or six years, said Lucille. "We've only had one offer.
They know who we are now."
Lucille and Casey (whose real name of Kenneth A.
friends wouldn't recognize i can be seen most any morning
setting out at the break of day, heading south over the
H olden Beach Bridge or north to a subdivision behind the
church. They're not fad walkers, with special outfits and
shoes, but practical walkers. In fact, Lucille said she
picks up sneakers for "$3.95 or whatever's cheapest" at a
discount store.
"Thev last as lone as the nthprs " she ?HHpH
One year the two logged 1,700 miles in their almostflnilf
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they do better. And they've got distances to routine
destinations down pat.
"From here to opposite Brown's landing is exactly
three miles, one hour there and one hour back," noted
Casey. "From here to the pier it's 2.7 miles; it's three
miles to Lion's Paw."
Much of their walking takes them past the "No
Pedestrian" signs on the high-rise Holden Beach Bridge.
"We had been told they would have a pedestrian
walkway," she said, but in the end there wasn't one. That
hasn't stopped the Joneses.
Accompanied by a grandchild, they were among the
first io cross the new bridge on foot.
We've crossed it since it opened and will until they
pick us up for it," said Lucille. "We walk just as close to
the side as we can."
They walk in good weather and bad, moving steadily
at about three miles per hour.
"Some walk faster. She does sometimes, by cracky,"
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said Casey. "And I just let her go."
As a result, motorists see Lucille striding along
ahead of Casey, who follows at a less bold pace.
"We enjoy it: we do it because we want to," said
Casey, noting, however, that they don't do as much walking
as they once did, what with sharing time with their
grandchildren.
They've been waHdo" for nearlv 20 years.
Casey took up the habit about the time he retired
from the Fruit Growers Express Co. in Baltimore, Md.,
in 1970. At the end of each work day, he would trek the
five miles from home to Kessick Hospital, where Lucille
was dining room supervisor for several years, and drive
back with her.
Even then, however, Casey was no stranger to walking.
A Moore County native, he earned his nickname in
lakeland, Fla., while working as a brakeman for Atlantic
Coastline Railroad. It stuck, following him up the rails
along the Eastern Seaboard to Marx-land's eastern shore
and then Baltimore, where he headed the Express Co.'s
mechanical department, which prepared and conditioned
rail cars for banana loading. He waiked a line of cars
sometimes up to a mile in length, listing their numbers.
In 42 years he never missed a day's work on account of
sickness.
Even now. at ages 75 and 82 respectively. Casey and
Lucille are healthy and vigorous.
"I 2ttT!b'J?e our health to staving busv and walking,"
Lucille said.
Along with playing canasta and visiting with friends,
the two keep busy tending a garden that annually fills
their freezer with vegetables. They also tend the yards of
five neighbors and the beach cottage owned by a son,
Kenneth, who lives in New York. Another son, Don, lives
in Wilmington.
It was because of some of those friends that the
Joneses ended up at Holden Beach. After Casey's retirement
they spent four years in Wilmington, near his family.
But in 1975 the Joneses bought the Fulford Avenue lot
and built their own tidy brick cottage?across the street
fiuiii the seasonal home of longtime Baltimore friends
Joseph and Mary Spence. They moved in October 1975
and have no desire to ever relocate again.
Now, said Lucille, "I iive just exactly as I want to.
"There is no where I can think of I would want to
move away from here for. This is the best place to live I
can think of."
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