Yesterday was an unexpected day.. it started at 7:15 while driving on snowy roads on my way to work. I noticed that I had a voice mail message on my phone. I almost didnt answer due to driving and the roads, but once the road straightened out I thought that perhaps my carpooling partner needed a ride and that I better check the message. Turned out to be an urgent request from my brother to return his call, which was not a good sign at 7:15 am. Turns out that my Dad passed away in his sleep Tuesday morning. I would call this the Golden Ticket entrance pass to Heaven. No suffering, no lingering pain, but difficult for relatives who would like to say Goodbye! Fortunately, he made it through the Holidays in good health and had lots of visitors and was able to see a lot of family and friends. He leaves a long legacy of family, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He loved his family, multi-week vacations with the fam on the Outer Banks, Myrtle Beach and Top Sail. He also completed a cross-country trip back in 1986 to visit all of his extended family. So family was his main emphasis in his life. He wasnt pre-occupied by a career that took him away from his family. He is remembered as being generous, friendly, talkative, neighborly, kind, loving, expressive and loyal to his family. He lived a good long Blessed life. Not necessarily a worldly prosperous career, but an enjoyable life on a gentlemen farm that he purchased in 1955. (and that we learned how to WORK on) Eventually owing 7 horses and riding one horse with a friend at full gallop for ten miles every Sunday morning because the horse wouldnt stop. After ten miles, it would stop to catch its breath (and my Dad his), and then they would turn around and repeat the gallop back home. On one of these trips, a blind car driver backed his full-size sedan right out in front of Dad and his friend galloping at full speed. Thinking that he would probably be killed, the next thing he knew he and the horse were flying over this big full size 1960s car. And they hadnt been practicing any horse jumping prior to this, Im sure. If you knew him, you know that he was a true story teller and loved to talk. He will be missed, but he was getting anxious to get to Heaven to see his friends and knew that his body was reaching the end of its use here. Cant say enough to fully share 89 years of memories, but this was a sampling of this rich blessed man.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:58:25 +0000
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