Noble 'Daune' Yerex

Uncle Daune was probably the most mischievous child of the ten.  I could write a book on stories about Uncle Daune. 

At the 1987 family reunion David Williamson was to tell stories about the ten kids and we spent the weekend at Tom and Judy's writing them all out and Uncle Daune fed us all the stories as long as we didn't say he told them to us.  We spilled the beans to the family much to his dismay.

My favourite story about Uncle Daune was in about 1983 so we were 16 or 17 years old and we were staying at his place for some family event.  He had one of those huge satellite dishes that they had back then.  So he got all sorts of television stations including the Playboy channel.  We teased him that when he went to work we were going to watch the Playboy channel all day long.  We never thought anything about it because we weren't going to actually do that.  But we wanted to watch some movies of course.

So Uncle Daune went to work and we woke up at noon and wanted to watch some movies.  We put on the dish and it was all snow.  Nothing would work.  We couldn't figure it out.  So we ate breakfast and got dressed and went out to the dish to see if we could fix it.  I noticed that the dial had a little notch in it and the pointer on it was about half an inch off and I said look at this.  I said let's try to move it back and we all agreed we didn't want to wreck it so we just left it.  

Uncle Daune came home from work and we said we think we might have done something to his satellite because it wouldn't work and he said, "Oh...hmm it was working yesterday, I'll take a look."  We never thought about it and once we became adults we brought it up one time and questioned him about it and he finally admitted that he turned the dish a bit off because he didn't want us watching the Playboy channel all day long.