Dad remembered

Sept 2013, Dad left this world.

He came home with hospice (Melissa and Dee – gave him such loving and excellent care) – he hung on till his youngest granddaughter drove in from Austin and passed 20 minutes after she arrived and said goodbye.

Korean War US Army Sargent, 120th Combat Engineers, 45th Infantry Division. He was a technician at Dupont SRW from the mid-1950s to his retirement in 1986.

The bottom of the Neches River, white Perch, and catfish were his passions, and getting stuck in gulleys in his jeep.

He loved us by sharing his life and interests with his sons and grandchildren. We seemed to live on the Neches River each summer growing up.

The spook trail entertained his grandchildren at Halloween and throughout the year.

He taught his sons to garden, peel pine saplings for fence posts, build fences, change oil and spark plugs, and work on an Evinrude 5 hp motor at Mud Lake while his brother fished and we prowled the woods and shot BB guns.

He served his church FMC Buna his entire life. He served on the school board and was president for a long time. He got to sign each of his son’s diplomas.

He gave me and my brothers a golden life – I love you, Dad, and miss you.