HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOE!!!

Below are just a few of the Happy Birthday wishes of the more than 200 from former students of Joe's that keep up with him via Facebook.  Apparently he touched a lot of lives in his many years of teaching.  I would have posted them all, but they just kept coming all day and I had to draw the line somewhere.

Vinkie Edwards Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton!
Courtney McMillon  Forget Team Jocob....Team LUPTON! Happy Birthday!
Monita McLaurin Happy Birthday & God Bless!
Tamika Pinnock HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marcia Adair-Davis Happy Birthday to you may it be over the moon ;-)
Alaina King McGarry Happy Birthday Mr Lupton!! Hope it's a great one!
Renee Beasley-Fisher Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton!
John Thomas Ramsey happy birthday mr lupton!
Anna-Marie Kline happy birthday!
Radene Locklear Caison Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton! I hope you have a blessed day and many more birthday's to come!
Shannon Leigh Costner Happy Birthday!
Annette Sanders Mickens Happy Birthday!!!!!
Regina Carlisle HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. LUPTON PRAYING GOD BLESSES YOU WITH SO MANY MORE..YOU WERE SUCH A BLESSING AS MY TEACHER IN JUNIOR HIGH..YOU GAVE US MEMORIES THAT WE ALL WILL CHERISH..ONCE AGAIN....A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU..
William Craig Autry Happy Birthday to the man who helped me to love music even more!
Jerrell Hairr HaPpY BiRtHdAy!!!
Danielle Eason Andrews Happy birthday!!! :)
Kelly Potts Happy Birthday!!!!
Jovan Edwards Happy Birthday!!!
Sterling Torain HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GREAT MAN, IN MANY WAYS...A FATHER FIGURE/MENTOR/TEACHER. LOVE YOU FALCON JOE!! ENJOY YOUR DAY!!!
Tara Hales Lynch Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton!! Hope you have a fantastic day!!
Jennifer Martling happy birthday!
Ashley Victoria Ray Happy birthday!!.
Shannon Snell Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton!!! ~I hope you have an AWESOME DAY!!!! :)
Jo Jovita Vereen Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton! I hope your doing well ♥.
Neta Ketterman Happy Birthday!!!! Your're the best!!!!
Lauren Jones Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton!
Noelle Shields Happy Birthday!! Have an amazing day
Jennifer Johnson  Happy Birthday Mr. Lupton!! May God continue to bless you with many many many more. As for birthday gifts, I'd like a new car...we can talk details later!
Kim Searles  Happy birthday Mr. Lupton! I hope it was amazing :)

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Then tonight we had a small Birthday party with a few friends.  We had a great time.

Someone looked on their iPhone and saw this.  So on came the televisions and we watched the news reports of Whitney's death for over an hour.  Yes, we still had fun, but it turned to singing Whitney Houston songs and talking about her trials and tribulations.  Not exactly how we pictured the evening ending.  

Still it was a wonderful birthday for Joe.  Thank you to everyone who sent cards, emails, phone calls and facebook posts.  Just goes to show how lovable he really is.