Bryan Camara remembers Joey

Joey and I first met playing baseball together in the local pony league. We immediately became friends. We shared the same interests in just about everything in our lives. George Judd, Joey and I were inseparable during baseball season. Georges dad or Joeys mom drove us to all the games, we were more focused on just enjoying our time hanging out then playing baseball.

As the years went on we kinda went are own ways. We were a grade apart so we hung out with our own class. But we always would hangout and talk still. After I graduated joey and i hung out a lot more. We started partying together on a regular basis. We were so excited when I snuck him in the bar for the first time with my fake i.d. We thought we were the coolest, I was 19 joey was 18.

We loved meeting new people together, if we were meeting someone new automatically we would tell them we were brothers. If they didn't believe us..... a big pause, then turn sideways and say "look at the nose" And of course they had no choice to believe us. We have ginormous noses. It adds character, were ok with it.

So many memories together from the booze cruisin' to the fishing to the shooting to the camping. We loved everything that had to do with outdoors. We were just like the song by Alan Jackson "country boys." Joey was always down for anything, no matter what we had on the agenda he was in for sure. Me Joey and Ryan loved to drink Keystone we said it was Escalon's beer. Joey was always proud of where he came from and how he was brought up. We love this town and wanted to raise families here and remain friends for the rest of our what we thought were long lives.

We were so proud that we were young and had our lives in order. Joey, Ryan and myself work hard and were lovin' it. Ryan and I worked together for a crane outfit, and Joey worked for his old man who he idolized. We worked hard and we played hard. That was our motto "Seize the day."

I remember one day at work I had to go to this job site in Stockton. I was there maybe ten minutes, all of a sudden I got hit in the head with a rock ha ha. Luckily I was wearing a hardhat. I look around and i see Joey come out from behind the shitters flipping me off. we both started to laugh and went and hugged and bullshitted for a minute then went about our day. We got a good amount of time together towards the end. One of my friends rented a houseboat this last summer so I invited Joey. We had so much fun together drinking bbq'n just enjoying our time off of work. I had just bought a boat at the time and had all my new fishing tackle in it. I come around the side of the houseboat and Joey and Ryan are fishing for catfish with my very expensive bass rods. I told him you better not break them ya jerk. He swore he wouldn't and I left and came back to see he snapped my rod in half ha ha. I was so mad for about ten minutes but got over it quickly. Joey was the only friend that I've had that I've never argued or fought with for longer then fifteen minutes.

There isn't a day that passes that i don't think about him. I am still in shock over this, our lives have changed dramatically ever since. He is in every song I hear every show I watch and everything I see. I love and miss him more than imaginable. You will always be in our hearts and our thoughts joey, I love you and will never forget you
Bryan Camara