taxes and death

some people say the only two things you will never escape are death and taxes. unlike taxes death happens everyday. today i received word from my parents that my grandfather has died. this being my first close family member who has died it truly is an interesting situation. i have never experienced this before. but my thoughts are not taken to me losing a grandfather but a wife losing a husband and a daughter losing a father. it has to hurt them much more than it hurts me. my grandparents had been married for 53 years. and my mother is 47. i am only 24.

my grandfather was a great man. he was the quiet silent type. not the in your face military sargeant but the laid back surfer type. he was the most laid back guy, who would sit and go with the flow. one time my sister put a head band on him decorated with 20 or so barettes. my greatest memories are of him and i fishing or on the tractor. when jenny and i were married last summer he was the one skipping out of the church. he was also the one dancing the ymca. he might of been old but he was full of life right up to the end.

the past 2-3 weeks he has been visited by a hospice nurse and could only get around with a wheel chair. i loved that man. he was the kindest most gentlest man that i have ever had the chance to know. it is sad to see him go. but i realize he is not suffering any longer. he is in a much better place. it will be hard for my grandmother how could it not be after seeing the same person every day for 53 years. i can only compare that to the ten months jenny and i have been married. my thoughts are with grandma as she deals with this. please pray for my family.

survived by a wife. two daughters. five grandchildren. earnest cook lived a life of love.

goodbye papa, enjoy God