Reunion: RIP Uncle Fred!

My Uncle Frederick died last week. He was an interesting man. He traveled the world, living in exotic places including Vietnam and several unstable countries in Africa. None of us ever knew exactly what he did but we all suspected that it was not the supervisor of the “Motor Pool” as he claimed. He married a wonderful woman from Vietnam and Hy and her two sons John and Lee joined our family over thirty years ago. They retired to the Gulf coast and after not seeing them for many years, we reconnected and began joining his daughter, Maureen and her family on Christmas day for the past few years. This November I hosted a “Holler Girls” (Our grandmothers) family reunion as I knew his health was deteriorating. My Uncle Ron and Aunt Gloria attended as they are also in their 80’s and the three of them were the last of their generation. I tried to get as many of us cousins together as possible. The party was well attended by cousins from all over the country but sadly Uncle Fred relapsed and at the last minute he could not attend. My sister Connie and I did get a chance to visit him in the hospital that week. He lost his fight with cancer last week. I am sad for the cousins who could not attend, I am sure they regret not taking the opportunity to say goodby.


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