Greg Thompson

She hired me for like candy man stuff, like mowing and weed eating and banging TVs and just all kinds of candy man type stuff.

She hired me for like candy man stuff, like mowing and weed eating and banging TVs and just all kinds of candy man type stuff.

Talena wanted to change the mattress out in her bedroom and she got a new mattress and needed somebody to unpack it and put it on and then haul the old one off. And so I did all that. Well, a couple of weeks later, she said that she didn't care for the mattress and wanted it returned. She's got another one coming.

Talena wanted to change the mattress out in her bedroom and she got a new mattress and needed somebody to unpack it and put it on and then haul the old one off. And so I did all that. Well, a couple of weeks later, she said that she didn't care for the mattress and wanted it returned. She's got another one coming.

She wanted to help anybody and everybody.

She wanted to help anybody and everybody.

She helped us volunteer picking up trash a few times. I'd heard of her giving food to people that needed it or giving them little jobs to do, like me. She knew that I needed something to do, so she'd give me jobs. She had other people that would do little odd jobs for her.

She helped us volunteer picking up trash a few times. I'd heard of her giving food to people that needed it or giving them little jobs to do, like me. She knew that I needed something to do, so she'd give me jobs. She had other people that would do little odd jobs for her.

for somebody to move through the area from bigger towns and just take in the interest in what's going on here and trying to help people that live here. That made an impression on me.

for somebody to move through the area from bigger towns and just take in the interest in what's going on here and trying to help people that live here. That made an impression on me.

She was a self-proclaimed computer nerd. I called her my own little hacker.

She was a self-proclaimed computer nerd. I called her my own little hacker.

My wife was going to school at the time for her bachelor's and didn't know anything about PowerPoint presentations and, you know, Microsoft Office and all these things. And Kalina had worked for Microsoft and she wrote some of these programs. So she saw another opportunity to help my wife and she started helping her with these presentations and showed her how to do it herself and things like that.

My wife was going to school at the time for her bachelor's and didn't know anything about PowerPoint presentations and, you know, Microsoft Office and all these things. And Kalina had worked for Microsoft and she wrote some of these programs. So she saw another opportunity to help my wife and she started helping her with these presentations and showed her how to do it herself and things like that.

If she felt like she could help you out of the hole you're in, she was all in.

If she felt like she could help you out of the hole you're in, she was all in.

We'd had Kalina and Cory over for dinner and a couple of times went out with them. You would have thought they were best friends that had known each other for a long time.

We'd had Kalina and Cory over for dinner and a couple of times went out with them. You would have thought they were best friends that had known each other for a long time.

From the time that I met Corey Brumley, she was somebody that, you know, I could relate to. And, you know, at the time I was going through things that, you know, I could talk to her about.

From the time that I met Corey Brumley, she was somebody that, you know, I could relate to. And, you know, at the time I was going through things that, you know, I could talk to her about.