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Jimmy Rousey

   Jimmy and Tanzel are still best friends, sweethearts, and the love of each other’s life after 49 years of marriage. They were married right out of high school (as very young children) in August of 1960 and have raised each other since that time. They say they think it is gonna last. They admit that it takes both of them to function: one to remember who they are, the other to remember where they are going.

   The Rouseys have two grown children, Jamey and DeAnn, and one toy poodle from purgatory - Sugarbear. They have also recently been blessed with a granddaughter just born to DeAnn in April of this year (2009). She is the most beautiful and best dressed grandchild who is being spoiled from afar (lives all the way up in Gloucester, MA ~ might as well be China!)
   Jimmy has been retired since 2000 from 25 years of grocery management for Piggly Wiggly Southern and 12 years from garden center management as owner and operator of four Macon Feed & Seed stores. He now is Tanzel’s house-husband, yard and pool man, and does commercial and residential landscape consultation on the side. The Rouseys are members of Gilead (Independent Funny-Mental) Baptist Church, where Tanzel was the pastor’s personal secretary, financial secretary and church clerk, for over 25 years before retiring last year. Jimmy is chairman of the deacons, head of the missions committee, captain of the ushers, and teacher of the senior adults Sunday School class (a full-time job in itself ~ Jimmy says he doesn’t know how he ever had time to work).
   Jimmy is an avid reader and Tanzel is a free-lance writer and has self-published five books. She is also moderator of the Christian author’s website of Heavenly Daze. They both love to travel and have visited many foreign countries including England, Wales, Scotland, France, Holland, Belgium, Mexico, Canada, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the British West Indies. In another life they would like to be bona-fide (that means to get paid for it) tour directors.
   Jimmy and Tanzel are avid collectors of David Winter Cottages and Harbour Lights Lighthouses. In addition to writing, reading, traveling, and collecting, their most favorite past-time is just enjoying their home of Lake Tobesofkee in Macon, Georgia, gardening, boating, jet-skiing, and sharing God’s wonderful evening sunsets with each other. The verses they claim for their lives are Romans 8:38-39: “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”