Our Friend Mitch: A salute to the memory of a legacy
Adam Gore/LetsGoICC.com
In a salute to our friend and colleague, the close-knit family of MACJC Sports Information Directors celebrate the life of the best-of-the-best by sharing a thoughts and memories of our friend Mitch Deaver.
Mitch was the first person to email me and welcome me to league when I was hired as the Assistant SID in 2010 and the first person to call me to give me a hard time in true Deaver-like fashion (everyone that knows Mitch will understand) when I was promoted to SID this summer.
This past February, he and I sat on the tables underneath the awning at the concession stand during Pearl River's softball tournament and talked an entire game about everything from sports to life in general. During that friendly banter, I asked him how many more years he thought he had until he would ride off into the sunset and what he said really stuck with me.
"You know I love it here so much I don't think I could ever leave."
The sentiments of that sentence was perfectly echoed in everything he did. The perfect example would be trying to duplicate your favorite childhood meal and no matter how hard you try it will never be good as momma's.
Like momma, his extra touch of love separated him and his work from the rest.
Below are links to other thoughts and memories about our friend Mitch:
Pearl River: Mitch Deaver leaves legacy of quality
Natalie Davis of Co-Lin
David Rosinski of East Mississippi
Don Hammack of Gulf Coast
Steve Diffey of Holmes
Shawn Wansley of Jones County
Blake Long of Northeast
Kevin Maloney of Northwest
Michael Gunnell of Southwest
Mitch is survived by his brother, Mac Deaver of Madison; three sisters, Michele Slade of Purvis, Melissa Bourn of Columbia and Melanie Hanlin of Jackson; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Friday, June 5 at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home in Purvis. The funeral will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 6 at Hulett-Winstead's Purvis Chapel. Burial will be at Slade Cemetery in Purvis.
