We thought Tommy had died. My late brother, Russ Hill, Jr. looked for Tommy in"UP COUNTRY" on Maui, Hawaii, 2013. He knocked on the door of all five "IGE's" in Maui. None of the five knew Tommy. The current governor of Hawaii is IGE.

Because Tommy's phone was no longer connected and Russ couldn't find him, we assumed he had passed. Last week, Mark Ward, Yamato Distributor in England, told me Tommy had been at Yamato factory the week before he was there.

I called Tommy, today, and told him my brother had died in December, He said his wife had died in December, also. I said, "Come and live with us, you ar e only 89." He said, "I live on a golf course why would I leave Hawaii?"

Asked Tommy how Yamato got into the outboard business. He admitted, that Yamato had copied his Mercury KG-7. Something, we always suspected.

I told Tommy we laughed and cried, two weeks ago remembering when he was going to pull my brother on water skiis, when we spread my brother's ashes in Needles.