Saturday, September 11, 2021
East Oregonian
A9
jacie SITES
She grew
up in
Pendleton
… then
she flew
over the
rainbow
• Marla Royal For helping discover Jacie’s
musical gift
• Tom Melton For always wanting Jacie on
his team
• Emily McCune
• Genna Blanca
• Kenny Melton
• Myrtle Rose Dungan Murphey
• Cloyoes Murphey
• Anthony Swales
• Dave & Tucker Murphey
• Dick & late Carol Keizer Teaching Jacie to
open her fiddle case on Main street
• Sandy Mayberry
• The Wizner Family
• Mary Daniels and her
14 children
• Jack Daniels
• Dean Fouquette
• Dr. Guenther
• Susie Birrer & Todd McJunkin
• December Daugherty
• Jennifer Bartlette
Playing with her at her first BMOTF show
• Rachel Shoemake
• Jaylene Steward
• Keith May
• Daisy Cochran
• Sue Waldman
• Shirley Mc Michaels
• Jay & Marilee Wildgrove
MUSIC FRIENDS, TEACHERS AND
MENTORS
• Peter Willis
• Dan Emert
• Andy Emert
• Micheal Duffy
• Chris Thomas
• Tom Watkins
THE PENNER FAMILY
• Ann, Jake and Virginia Penner
• Steve, Liz and Buddy Penner
• Edith Peterson Bunch
• Betty & Cecil Holmes
• Don & Betty Webb
• Bigham Family
• BLUE MOUNTAIN OLD TIME
FIDDLERS encouraging each child performer
• Denny & Colleen Langford
• Winn & Jane Weston
PICK ’N’ BOW BANDMATES
• Joseph Weyland
• Carrie Smith
• Sam McCullough
• Joe McCullough
PICK “N” BOW PARENTS
• Mary Weyland and Joseph’s family
• Patsy & Stan Smith
• Tammy & Mike McCullough
• Peg & Jim Willis
• Rose Murphey & Art Merriman
MUSICAL JAMS AT GREAT PACIFIC
• Ken & Carol and Addison Schulberg
• Circle of friends JAM sessions
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
FREE METHODIST CHURCH
• Mark & Colleen Yeske
• Randy & Connie Thomas
OREGON EAST SYMPHONY
PENDLETON HIGH SCHOOL
• Emily Muller-Cary
• Morgan Matteson
• William Mayclin
• Ryan Dutter
• Marilyn Muller
Thank You!
CHRIS THOMAS’S DAD: The increasingly negative way some people talk to or
write about each other in public forums. It’s like with your kids, if you rip them
down and call them names, shame on you. The cycle you have begun for them
will deteriorate through many generations. If you encourage their abilities,
support their development and protect their individualism, you will be loved
for many generations. This has direct implications to our relationship with
neighbors. We should desire to move our whole community forward with great
ideas and diversity, not kill it where it stands, hoping someone else will restart
everything the way I want it. Once dead, it’s dead - lots of examples around us.
Randy Thomas, 9/15/2010
Randy
Thomas
INTERNATIONAL
MUSIC MAEsTRO
• National and Grandmaster Fiddle Champion
• Bachelor of Music with Emphasis in Cello &
Violin, EOU
• Loves Arranging Music
• Multi-Instrumentalist who plays fiddle, violin,
viola, cello, bass, guitar, tenor, mandolin and
banjo, piano and wind instruments
• Featured Performer for the Teton Chamber
Orchestra
• Played her Debut Symphony Performance
(scoring the concert) with the Idaho Falls
Symphony
• Photographic memory for music
BEING “JACIE’S MOM” While Jacie was
developing her music gift, she just threw a rope
around my waist and pulled me along behind her
as she sailed her own vessel down the river to
her musical dream. It is a joke when I say I was
kicking and screaming at the end of the rope.
Instead, I was being the best parent for Jacie. I
was the only one who knew she was a musical
Rose
genius, which way too much of a burden to place
Murphey
on any small child, so I just carried that burden
for her. I was educationally aware of the damage that stage “moms”
and overindulgent parents or too much fame, too young can cause
children. I just packed her up, moved us home to Pendleton to give
her the most normal childhood as possible. I gave her all my love, I
totally accepted and loved her more for her differentness. I named
her Miss Jacie. I tried to shield her from as many of the emotional
bumps and bruises caused when we grow up in society, plus being a
Music Phenomenon, carried is’s own special heartaches. I was always
there in the background, and I have always been there for her, I am
her greatest fan. My moms family was from a small town in South
Carolina. Our Irish, that is were American’s Mountain and Bluegrass
Music came from. The fun leprechaun type personality, joking and
telling long tales, step-dancing, charming little children and just about
everybody else, that is Irish to the core.