It's several months later & I've just learned of Cecil's passing. I'm in shock. Found Gary's tribute to him on the internet - beautiful. I met Cecil in '93 in B'ham. I was one of the American students living with Ian & Sue Chamberlain in Harborne (the same program that Amy was part of but a few yrs earlier). Cecil spent many hours at our home playing with Ian in the front room. I can still hear him singing "I Fought the Law," "The Green & Red of Mayo," etc. If I close my eyes, I can still see & feel his heavy-stomping foot tapping in time to the music. He was wonderfully gifted, funny, full of life - it was contagious. I'm glad to have known him. My thoughts & prayers to the Patton family.
~Monica McVay, Minneapolis, MN, USA