Author Archives: Ron Linam

I first met Joanne at a big political function down in Austin.  Everyone who was “anyone” was there, including President Johnson.  She has always lived in Houston.  Her name was Joanne King then; though she later married the wealthy Bob Herring, Chairman of Houston Natural Gas, and became Joanne Herring. Even at that early timeContinue reading “Joanne”

On the second trip taking a medical team to Honduras I worked the projector showing the Jesus film each night, since the Hornstein’s were not there; and relied on the local Baptist missionary in Progresso to help with follow-up.  He was a nice fellow who had previously worked in Nicaragua.  He had been working thereContinue reading “Onelia”

One of the greatest heroes of WWII and the epitome of the Greatest Generation was Joe Foss.  He grew up really poor on a farm in South Dakota.  He learned to hunt and was quite the outdoorsman.  He did manage to enroll in the University of South Dakota and was big in all their athleticContinue reading “Joe Foss”

So, why, in spite of our good intentions and all of the noble effort by multitudes of such good people, does the “Dark Side” keep winning, time and time again???  Would you really like to know the answer to that?  Then stay with me for just a bit. The apostle Paul was actually visited byContinue reading “The Answer”

The Southern Baptists had an old bob-tail truck on the east coast of Honduras.  A Baptist missionary at Progresso, a suburb of San Pedro Sula kept it.  I was allowed to use it on most every medical trip that I took to that area of the country.  The truck was quite old with faded blueContinue reading “The Truck”

On this one trip to Honduras, it was so very hot and humid.  I worked mostly in the dental clinic, for there were always way more people needing relief from severe dental problems than we could possibly treat. Before we go, I always ask the doctors going for the first time to go back andContinue reading “The Little Girl”

Our medical teams would usually go to the east coast of Honduras.  There are so many really poor villages of people there along the coast and inland from there.  However, like I related, we went two times into the Province of Yoro and the town of Yoro with teams sponsored by First Baptist Church ofContinue reading “The Fish Fall”

After we left Khao-I-Dang we did not find out until the next day that the North Vietnamese had probed and killed 30 people right there at the intersection in front of the Khao-I-Dang Camp just after we left.  You may recall that I wrote about the man at that camp who had been the onlyContinue reading “Sa Kaeo II”

In my book soon to be published, there is one incident that I want to tell you about.  It happened on one of the trips to Honduras when I was taking medical teams there to treat the people in remote parts of the country. After getting up at daylight, having breakfast, loading up the vehicles,Continue reading “The Watch”

I just had the overwhelming compulsion that I was supposed to go to Russia.  My father and I had sold the Russians several groups of Santa Gertrudis cattle, but I did not need to go there.  They always came here for those purchases.  Also, in the early 1970’s most people from here were not especiallyContinue reading “Russia – a true tale”