The Copa Issue 11 / Oct 2014 | Page 18

Saluting Our Veterans In the Copa Bud Ryan Photos by Sandra Garza Garces Leamon Crosier Ryan, “Bud”, was born in December 1932, in Pineknot, Kentucky. Bud was his mother’s first born, and Bud is proud to admit, he was “definitely a mother’s boy”. “She was a saint,” says Bud. “I miss her dearly.” Though Kentucky born, Bud grew up on an apple orch