Birth date: Aug 17, 1949 Death date: Nov 5, 2013
Michael Boyer Bleecker passed away recently at Methodist North Hospital. He was born August 17, 1949 in Memphis, graduated from Christian Brothers High School and the University of Memphis with a degree in Accounting. Michael had Read Obituary
One trip from Knoxville to Memphis the GTO was running hot. We were so desperate to return home that we drove with the heater on high and the windows open to keep the car from overheating. I remember so clearly visiting Mike in the dorm, the food trucks parked outside where he’d go for food, listening to Hendrix’s 1st album and so many other things from that year at UT in Knoxville.
Our freshman year at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1967, Mike would drive us home to Memphis at any opportunity in his gold GTO. We’d always stop at the same gas station in Bucksnort, Tennessee. The attendant would come out to the car and deliver the line that we’d repeat for years, “Fill it up, or run it over?”
