Cy Layne Cushenberry
P.O. Box 2491
Amarillo, Texas 79105
(806) 220-7616 cy.cushenberry@gmail.com SUGARTIME- THE SWEET AND STICKY LIFE OF COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND
CHARLIE “SUGARTIME” PHILLIPS
BY
CY CUSHENBERRY
This book is dedicated to Therese Kelley and Mike Mc Millen for their love, dedication and support throughout the writing process
And to
Gloria Cushenberry, a woman who after every battle in life
Is the first to raise the flag
And rally the troops to victory
And of course to
Charlie Phillips, without his life
This book would have never been written
SUGARTIME- THE SWEET AND STICKY LIFE OF COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND
CHARLIE “SUGARTIME” PHILLIPS
Contents:
Prologue
Sugartime: Lyrics
Chapter 1: On the Road to Texas
Chapter 2: Welcome to Farwell
Chapter 3: Rising from …show more content…
Frank worked along side Thad and year after year they produced their crops. Living was good, well, as good as it could be in those days. Frank and Katherine began having offspring. The first of their children was a boy they named Carthon.
Carthon was a go-getter sort of boy. Little did anyone know at the time, but Carthon would live well into his 90’s! When World War II began, Carthon would leave his college studies at Texas Technical College (later Texas Tech University) in Lubbock,
Texas and volunteer for the Army Air Corps. Carthon became a pilot and flew planes throughout the duration of the Second World War and made a career out of the Air
Corps. That lucky son-of-a-gun became a highly decorated Colonel and not only lived through WW II, but also lived to speak about his service in the Korean War and the
Vietnam War.
Over the next few years, Frank and Katherine had a daughter they named Elaine. Elaine was a spunky young lady with looks to match her sweet personality. Also born during this time was Albert Frank Jr. who the family nicknamed “Bunk”. The