| Profession:
restaurateur/musician |
| College:
State College of Arkansas in Conway. Two and a half years |
| Marital Status:
Married to Cathy Norsworthy of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. We
met while I was playing in a a band called The Howlers. We
got married in 1975 and moved to Austin, Texas with the rest of
the band and their spouses. She has worked as an executive
secretary and office manager and has worked for the Batesville
Junior High School for the past 8 years. She is an avid
sports fan, which she takes after her father, and likes music, and
keeps our house as neat as a pin. She can usually beat the contestants
on Jeopardy and watches Geraldo (at night) and All My Children on
a regular basis. |
| Children:
does not apply (we do have a 16 year old cat named Daisy) |
| Hobbies and
Interests: Playing music and collecting vintage
musical instruments. Resilvering mirrors, spending time
outdoors. |
| Places I have
lived: Little Rock, Conway, McAlister, OK,
Hattiesburg, MS, Austin, TX |
| Places I have traveled:
Never made it out of the good ole' U. S. A. |
| Famous People I have
met: Grandpa Jones |
| Current Involvements:
Running a restaurant called The Depot Diner, and creating a venue
for live music in Batesville. |
Most unusual
thing: Do you remember when we were in about the
5th grade and we got pen pals? We could choose what country
we wanted to write to and I chose Australia. My pen pals
name was John Coope and he was a lot better letter writer than
I. We communicated for a year or so and I got lazy and quit
writing. He continued to write from time to time and sent me
all kind of things to do with Australia. Once he sent me and
Opal matrix that was mined there. He even called one time
about 5 years ago on my birthday. I was sound asleep at
about 2:30 a.m. in the morning. It was the middle of the day
over there. About a year ago he called and said he was on a
trip going to several countries and would be coming to the U.
S. He said he would like to come to Batesville and
meet me and my family. He flew in to Little Rock and I told
him I would drive down and pick him up at the airport. He
hadn't sent me any recent Photo's so I didn't really know how I
would recognize him. I went to the terminal where his plane
was arriving and watched the passengers walk in one at a
time. I had on an Australian T-Shirt that he had sent me so
I thought he would recognize me. Nobody stopped and looked
around like it could be him so I started walking back to another
terminal. As I was walking I saw a man in khaki pants with a
big belt buckle that had a map of Australia on it. I asked
him if he might be John Coope and he said you must be Danny Dozier
with a heavy Australian accent. I had a hard time understanding
him as we drove toward Batesville, his accent was very heavy and
with substantial hearing loss from playing too much loud music, I
just nodded my head a lot. He spent 3 days here in Batesville
and I tried to show him all of the sites. He seemed to enjoy
his visit and I took him back to Little Rock where he was to
continue his travels to several more countries. So that is
my unusual thing to share with you. Do you remember when
I used to be in a band with John Vinson. John played drums
and I think Chris Sims played guitar. We ere called the Gestapo
and one of our gigs was at somebody's parents house. We were
set up in the back of a pickup truck and everybody danced in the
driveway. Those were the gold ole' days.
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