12.20.05
Posted in Memories at 7:07 pm by will meacham
Like everyone else losing Lucas has been hard for me to accept. Most of my memories of Lucas are when he was age 12-16. I spent alot of time at the Harris’ house and became close with the whole family but with Lucas he and my brother were the same age yet Lucas was so different. Little brothers can always seem annoying but with Lucas he always made me laugh and was fun to have around. I have several memories of Lucas tyring to spy on or bother Tarlie and I while we were hanging out or watching movies. Of course this didn’t bother me that much but would make Tarlie mad as hell. I always got a kick out of it because my brother would do the same thing and make me mad but with Lucas it was just funny.
Lucas also had a nack to fix anything it seemed. I had an old go-cart that had not run in 2-3 years and one day Lucas was over at my house and spotted it. He was already probably to big for the thing but asked what I was going to do with it. It was only collecting leaves at my house so I gave it to Lucas. I can’t recall the time frame it took him to get it running but one day I was over at his house and there it was painted blue and running like a champ. Of course being the kid I am we took turns riding that thing in the fields that used to be around the house having the best time.
Over the years I would run into Lucas at the strangest places and it never failed every concert especially Widespread in Birmingham we would somehow find each other. Then about 2 years ago we ran into each other at a gas station down from my house and exchanged numbers. Soon after that I got a call from Lucas saying he was now a real estate agent and with me being in the insurance business we were able to refer clients to each other quite a few times over the following months. I am glad that our paths crossed like that because I always considered Lucas to be my other little brother and was enjoying trying to help him in his new business venture any way I could.
I’ve enjoyed reading every ones memories. I’m just very thankful I knew Lucas and know he is always looking over us. I miss you my other little brother.
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12.19.05
Posted in Memories at 2:33 pm by Tarlie Harris
Since Lucas and I were not even two years apart, most of my childhood memories inlcude him in them somewhere. He was so much better that I am at remembering the smallest of details of being kids and would always remind me of the silliest things that we had done as children. I can’t believe that he isn’t here to help me remember.
I can’t begin to think of childhood without first thinking of our summers in Orlando. Our grandparents always had a huge RV and would take Lucas and I for a week or two every summer and we would drive down to Orlando and stay in the resort that they had a place in. We would play UNO the entire way down with grandmother while Popaw was driving. He definitely had a temper and we were always pushing him to the limit with our constant sense of being in a hurry! We just wanted to get there! We would stop at rest stations and eat whatever they had packed for us, I think we complained about most of the food the whole time. Lucas was always the pickiest eater, he would eat hot dogs, waffles, biscuits with grape jelly and chef boyardee ravioli. That was it!
I remember that as soon as we drove up in the driveway at the resort Lucas and I would start saying “when are we going to disney world?! come on, we don’t need to unpack, let’s just go now!” We were SO hyper about it! We really couldn’t fathom what would take our grandparents so long to get ready to go. And if they decided we weren’t going till the next day, we could absolutely freak out. We were not mellow children. I really don’t know how our grandparents handled it! We would always stay in Disney World the ENTIRE day, never tiring, until the 10pm fireworks, after we had ridden thunder mountain as many times as possible. I would never ride space mountain, but I remember that Lucas did, he wasn’t too scared, he loved it and would always try to get me on, but I never did ride it with him. One year, we convinced my grandmother that I had “hurt my ankle” and therefore it was necessary for her to push BOTH of us around in the same wheelchair all over Disney World! We thought that was so hilarious! I don’t think we felt at all guilty either.
When we weren’t actually in Disney World, we would roam all over the resort on the three wheeled bike that they had for us. One of us driving and one of us in the big basket in the back. We would go to the clubhouse and play shuffleboard and putt-putt golf and swim and we would ride all around the place because there were canals throughout the whole thing so we liked riding over the bridges. And of coarse Lucas liked getting as close into the canals as possible. One time he caught a baby alligator, i am not making this up. He was so much more daring than me, I was always 10 steps behind going “Lucas! Don’t do that!” But of course, my grandad thought catching the alligator was pretty damn funny! I can’t imagine what I would have been like down there without Lucas always stirring up trouble for us to get into. We wouldn’t even wear shoes unless we were forced to when we were actually in Disney World. They always tried to talk us into Epcot Center, which we were totally opposed to, how boring! But they did take us down to Busch Gardens one year too, where there were a lot more roller coasters, I remember I actually started getting some courage by then and we rode em all together.
We got to ride an elephant! I remember we kept standing in line and then passing up our turn because we figured out that we wouldn’t be in the very front, and of course we had to be in the front, so the whole process was about 10 times longer than it needed to be, but we did it! And of course Lucas had to convince me to do this in the first place because I was too scared.
We got our faces painted!
Us on the three wheeled bike, this was probably one of the last years that Gabe came down with us, so Lucas wasn’t driving ME around in the basket like a madman quite yet.
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12.15.05
Posted in Memories at 7:48 pm by JudiMom
The whole nite-nite story really starts when Jerry was a baby. The very original nite-nite was his. Grandmother gave it to Chance when he was born, and there were two of them. One almost worn out from Jerry and one new thick one with lots of stitching. The older one was stored away shortly after Gabe was born and was replaced in Chance’s mind with a twin size pooh-bear quilt to go on his big boy bed. And Gabe got a crib size pooh-bear quilt plus the thick crib size silky quilt (just slightly more worn than when Chance was a baby).
Then we move to Atlanta, the boys got the bunk beds and Chance and Gabe’s nite-nite became yellow and white checked cotton quilts. The baby crib size blankets got put aways for next baby. Chance and Gabe both kept their yellow quilts around for a long time but they became ragged and they dissapeared while we still lived in Millbrook.
Tarlie was born in 1978 in Atlanta and out came the one silky blanket, and a crib size pooh-bear, and a new crib size girly blanket that had a little baby giraffe with it. The silky blanket was the standard on the floor spot for the baby because it was so soft but heavy and did wrinkle up as she wiggled around. I got out the older silky one that was very thin and flimsy to cover her with and that became her permanent nite-nite until it disappeared mysteriously on a Grandmother visit to Montgomery.
Then Lucas was born… Tarlie kept the thin silky nite-nite and her backup was the giraffe crib size, Lucas attached to the thick one with lots of stitching that had been through the three older children and was rather worn in. He always has two backups, the crib size pooh bear and the twin size pooh bear.
By the time Lucas was eight 1988 the nite-nite was on its last legs. See picture below. Grand mother made him a replacement that he attached to very quickly and kept the Pooh’s as backups.
The new one was soft and silky but wore out quickly. Lucas went to the crib size Pooh as backup #1. It wore out as he went to Lawrenceville, I think, and he moved on to the twin size pooh whch I kept sewing up as it became more and more ragged. I learned to put it inside a pillow case to wash it and never asked if I could because he would say no. Tarlie has his Pooh nite-nite now. I know she will keep it safe for him.
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12.14.05
Posted in Memories at 5:21 pm by Kelley
Lucas loved Bear and Foxy so much so I thought that I would post a picture of them together. I have Foxy with me in Montgomery and she is still happy and fat! Travis found a home for Bear. Thank you Trav. 
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12.10.05
Posted in Memories at 10:25 pm by Laura P
This classic Lucas tale took place when we were about 21 0r 22. I got a call from my dad one saturday afternoon in the spring. I knew he was at the lake, so I figured he was trying to get me to come up there and help do yardwork or some other form of manual labor. Needless to say, I did not answer the phone the first time. When he called right back, I answered the phone and waited for the invite.
Instead of asking me to come work, he had one of the best Lucas stories ever. He arrived at the lake around 10:30 that morning and found a truck in the driveway. When he got out of his car, the only thing he heard was really loud music that sounded like it was coming from the house. He walked around to the side door, which was suspiciously unlocked, and looked around. After walking inside and not finding anyone, he walked to the lake side of the house and noticed that someone was sitting down on the pier with his shirt off. As he began to walk down the hillside, he noticed that it was none other than “The Dude”. He called out to Lucas, who responded with that laugh, followed by a “Oh, Hey Mr. Hassell, I didnt know you were coming up here.”
My dad made his way down to the pier and shared a Bud with Lucas. Apparently, Lucas was on his way back to Auburn and decided it was just nice enough outside to warrant a trip to the lake. He went to my parent’s lake place (which he had an open invitation to)
and turned the inside stereo on so loud (with one of my dasd’s Grateful Dead cds) that he could hear it down on the pier (about 100 feet away) and helped himself to some beer that my dad had left up there the weekend before.
My dad called me to make sure I had given Lucas the ok to go over there, but I had no idea what he was talking about. All my dad could do was laugh and talk about the balls it took to pull a stunt like that. Only Lucas!
Miss ya, buddy.
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12.07.05
Posted in Memories at 11:43 pm by Jacob Kirkland
Anyone that knew Lucas knew he loved old Pops very much (Judi’s father). Lucas would go visit old Pops alot. One thing that was so funny was he would give Lucas $40 everytime he came to visit him. In Auburn, Lucas would tell us that he was going to Millbrook and after awhile we would kid him about going to get his 40 bucks. If Lucas had not seen Pops in 2 months he would give him $40, and if he saw him Monday and then again the next Monday it would still be $40 for each visit. No matter what, it was $40.
I had the pleasure of getting to know Pops very well the past couple years. I will always remember one time before I knew him at all, Lucas and I went to go see him. Well I obviously was awaiting for this $40 to happen after we had visited with him for awhile. It was so funny because as we were leaving Pops politely asked me to go to the car. This was when he gave Lucas the $40. Lucas came out to the car with a big grin and told me not to have my feelings hurt. It was so funny because Pops was being so sly about it. Of course it was great incentive to get $40 each time you visit your Grand dad but Lucas and Pops had a very special friendship.
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Posted in Memories at 7:34 pm by Laura P
Laura, Lucas, Leslie and Bartley dancing in the disco club on the ship during our senior cruise
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Posted in Memories at 7:27 pm by Laura P
Lee, Rebecca, Lauren, Lucas, Alan and Laura at AJ’s in Destin 1997
Lucas and Laura dancing at AJ’s in Destin 1997
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Posted in Memories at 7:25 pm by Laura P
Here’s one of Lucas, Jeff and Leslie
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12.06.05
Posted in Memories at 6:59 pm by Laura P
I have been thinking long and hard about what I wanted to share with you all about my memories of Lucas. It is so hard because I have so many of them!
Lucas was one of my closest guy friends. I met him in 7th grade at Saint James and remember thinking he was so cute! We used to give Lucas rides home then and my little brother Will would bother us both so much that we would sit in the very back of my Mom’s minivan. I have this image in my mind of Lucas in middle school sitting on the deck where we used to eat lunch and chuging his milk, almost a gallon at one sitting!
By the time high school rolled around we were very close friends. I called him my “bro” because he reminded me so much of my older brother Hunter. Lucas was always such a great friend to have. He always made me laugh. I have some great pictures of our double dates to dances when Lucas, Lauren, Alan and I would all ride together.
In college I would see him over breaks at home and when he would come to Tuscaloosa to visit. I started to see him more when I would visit Lee at Auburn. I remember after I broke my back in a car accident he came to visit me at my parents house. It made my day to see him. It also made my grandmothers day to see him! Nani, my mother’s mom, thought he was “the best looking thing she had ever laid her eyes on” and would also say “he looks like Fabio” or “he looks like a latin lover”. I think this was because he was so tan and his hair was so long and slicked back. He was always smiling a big smile and I loved that goofy laugh. I can still hear that laugh in my mind. That is something I will always love and remember him by.
The last time I saw Lucas was when he came by my office one day to bring me his new business card. He looked wonderful! He had a big smile, as always, and gave me a big hug. I keep his business card in my card file on my desk and it reminds me of him everday. I love him and miss him.
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