[Dialogue] changes in the Heavenly Roster

[jlepps at pc.jaring.my]

Hi Sunny

We join you in celebrating the completed life of 
your father. Mine also would have preferred the 
pine box had one been available (and the rest of 
the family had not rebelled). Anyway your note 
provides a glimpse into his unique life, and we  know you will miss him.

John Epps

At 04:44 PM 9/5/2012, you wrote:
>Someone is being kept quite busy “up there” – 
>and no, I’ve not gone over to the dark side. I 
>simply enjoy some of the old 2-story images on 
>occasion and the death of my thoroughly 
>agnostic, yet brilliant father who made sure I 
>didn’t really believe in it either is one of them.
>
>Dad, at 97 (after 70 years of marriage) finally 
>let go around midnight last night. I re-read 
>JWM’s “The Time My Father Died.” I can’t 
>remember if I’d shared it with Dad, but I know 
>he would have gotten quite the bang out of the 
>pine box story. He would have preferred a pine 
>box as well, if we weren’t allowed to simply 
>roll him into a ditch and be done with it.
>
>I imagine few of you would have known him as he 
>only came with Mom to one Summer program (might 
>have been the big one in ’84) and cheerfully did 
>his duty setting the Great Hall for breakfast. 
>He’d, on his own, read most of the “greats” of 
>our history and maintained a disciplined, albeit 
>rather stoic (or perhaps just west Texas 
>stubborn) attitude throughout his life. I miss 
>him and certainly celebrate all he passed on to me and our family.
>
>Blessings to Lynda and her family on a dad whose 
>picture reminded me of mine and who I can 
>imagine kicking up his heels with mine now in the “great beyond.”
>
>Bye Dad.
>
>Sunny
>
>Sunny Walker
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>
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