Jerry D. Hill

Born in 1938-back to Dallas in 1951-Hutchins Boys Home-Harry Hines Juvenile Record Holder Most Arrests-Gatesville State Reform School 3 Times-Federal In Texarkana-Drugs-Car Theft-The Works-Here I am in pictured in January 1956-Getting ready for the big time life of crime. That is all I knew at the time, I dropped out of school of course, I tried a few weeks of 9th grade at Adamson High School in Oak Cliff, but I was marred and scarred. I was only suitable for the life of the criminally employed. No one would hire me, after a while, I would not even pretend to look for a job. Stealing and dealing became a way of life. Just one hitch, I had a sentence to carry out on parole and had to report to a parole officer. He was religious and though church would be the solution to me. Cold dead religion left me the same way I came in. Cold and dead. I stumbled into a church in Mesquite, Texas, Wildwood Baptist Church,  not your same old thing. People here cared about you. My cold heart was not prepared for the warmth of their love.