Damon Roland Ferguson, Jr.

Here’s my thoughts I would share with you on Damon. Somebody recently asked me what he died from, I said he died of natural causes. Wow, not the headline cancer, or massive heart attack……. just natural causes at 90 years of age. You give me that contract and I’ll sign it right now. Dad was a gentle guy, never had a bad thing to say about anyone and everyone that knew him loved him. No confrontations, just easy going, sometimes maybe too easy going. I always thought though that Damon needed a little more fire in his personality, maybe a little bit of Horace (Hot) Bain our grandfather. If you knew Grandpa Bain you know why his nickname was Hot. Hot would never have been politically correct today……and that’s fine. We all need a little Damon and a little Grandpa Bain in us. Damon provided the best for his family, the only way he knew how. Worked hard, had a great skill set, could build almost anything. Never knew how he stood on the factory concrete floor all those years with a leg that was almost lost from a hunting accident in high school. But he did and never complained. I look at it this way as a retired engineer. You have to have a fairly good baseline at the beginning of any test or design to have a chance to be successful. We’re all kind of like machines, got all these little parts that make us go. We can run smoothly and we can run not so smoothly but we make adjustments along the way. We start off playing with sticks, climbing trees, throwing walnuts at each other and then so quickly we wind up where we are today. I think Damon Ferguson along with our lovely mother Ann provided us kids with a pretty good Baseline. Not everyone can say that. So for me, thank you Mom and Dad. Michael Ferguson

Sorry to hear of his passing. We loved being with him at church and seeing him out at dinner. We will miss his gentle nature and winning smile. – David and Peggy (Potts)Shirar

Fergie did my interview and hired me at Federal Mogul in 1977. He was a grand man then as he always was. Always good to people and would try and give the best advice that he knew of. Always talked about his family… His kids oh the stories about each one at different times. But proud of them much. Where they had been and what they might go to next time. Seen him off and on in town when he left Mogul . Then after my 23 years with them and they closed the doors I picked him back up when I started working at Overton’s. Still just as full of it as he was. Always best mood and what do you know kiddo each time. Each visit which was often, ask who I had seen from Mogul and vise versa out and about. Who we had lost from there and how others were still doing. Had he seen Bud and how they were doing. Many things we could talk about from years before. The way he would describe things could make you laugh. Fine man to know . Rest in Heaven Fergie.

Loved Damon’s smile and laugh. Such a good man, loving husband, father, brother, grandfather. You will be missed. Char Ferguson My heart goes out to the family.

I’m sure Damon and Bud, his co-worker at Federal-Mogul for forty plus years, are already telling stories about their time together making bearings. We heard many of them. “We wish that those we love could be with us forever and in our hearts they will be”. Kathryn Thompson