Gayle was my back door neighbor in Surratts Gardens. What a wonderful sweet girl. I was so saddened when I heard that she was taken so early in life. 

I just wanted to say something about this wonderful person. We had been causual aquaintances in high school and then I was in my first year at Clemson and she at East Carolina. We had exchanged a few letters when I was able to catch a ride with a guy to East Carolina for a concert weekend. We saw Manhatten Transfer and Jose' Feliciano. It was a wonderful weekend. What a sweet, kind wonderful woman. We excitedly made plans to get together when we came back to Clinton for Chritsmas. I never saw her again. I understand she contracted encephlitis and by the time it was diagnosed and treated, it was too late. So Gayle, you left us way too early but you'll be in many of hearts forever. Especially mine.