Interesting Funeral
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Attended SIL's grandfather's funeral today, mostly to chase my grandkids. He was an interesting guy...SMU grad, he went to medical school and became an infernal med. Was an USAF flight surgeon for awhile, then worked for Parke-Davis in research. Some of his work was used in making the first BCP.
But, he wasn't wild about research, had a passel of kids (7), so he wanted regular hours. Went back to school, became an optometrist and practiced until he retired. And somewhere in the middle of all this, he obtained a degree in theology. And taught himself German and Spanish. Because he wanted to.
I knew some of his kids. One is a pedi, another was family practice. One of the boys has a son that's also a doc, although I don't know what kind. My SIL's mom has a nursing PhD. His wife passed several years ago.
Oh, and three of the pallbearers were docs. Just before the service started, a surgeon I knew slipped into a back pew, still in his scrubs
If there was a funeral where if someone had a medical emergency and needed help, this was it!
BTW, two of his grandsons held his funeral. One is handicapped, but is an excellent historian and the other grandson is a Methodist minister. While the history guy was researching through his Grandpa's records, he ran across an IQ test that P-D had done on his Grandpa back in the 50's. The score was 160. Nobody in the family knew, because he'd never told them.
Smart man. Smart family. Maybe it's just a bad turn on the fortune wheel of the cosmos, but he died from Alzheimer's complications. But maybe God shows us what's important anyway...See, Doc was known for a sense of humor that was slightly off-kilter. Punny, and full of corn-pone. The man who could answer almost everything on a Jeopardy episode, thought Hee-Haw was the funniest TV show ever made.
And while things eventually progressed to the point he sometimes didn't recognize his children, he kept that wacky sense of humor until the end. That's not the norm in an Alzheimer's patient.
Not a lot of point to this story. Just another guy who lived a good life, had a great family and was able to laugh the week he died.
Not a bad life. Not at all...
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Attended SIL's grandfather's funeral today, mostly to chase my grandkids. He was an interesting guy...SMU grad, he went to medical school and became an infernal med. Was an USAF flight surgeon for awhile, then worked for Parke-Davis in research. Some of his work was used in making the first BCP.
But, he wasn't wild about research, had a passel of kids (7), so he wanted regular hours. Went back to school, became an optometrist and practiced until he retired. And somewhere in the middle of all this, he obtained a degree in theology. And taught himself German and Spanish. Because he wanted to.
I knew some of his kids. One is a pedi, another was family practice. One of the boys has a son that's also a doc, although I don't know what kind. My SIL's mom has a nursing PhD. His wife passed several years ago.
Oh, and three of the pallbearers were docs. Just before the service started, a surgeon I knew slipped into a back pew, still in his scrubs
If there was a funeral where if someone had a medical emergency and needed help, this was it!
BTW, two of his grandsons held his funeral. One is handicapped, but is an excellent historian and the other grandson is a Methodist minister. While the history guy was researching through his Grandpa's records, he ran across an IQ test that P-D had done on his Grandpa back in the 50's. The score was 160. Nobody in the family knew, because he'd never told them.
Smart man. Smart family. Maybe it's just a bad turn on the fortune wheel of the cosmos, but he died from Alzheimer's complications. But maybe God shows us what's important anyway...See, Doc was known for a sense of humor that was slightly off-kilter. Punny, and full of corn-pone. The man who could answer almost everything on a Jeopardy episode, thought Hee-Haw was the funniest TV show ever made.
And while things eventually progressed to the point he sometimes didn't recognize his children, he kept that wacky sense of humor until the end. That's not the norm in an Alzheimer's patient.
Not a lot of point to this story. Just another guy who lived a good life, had a great family and was able to laugh the week he died.
Not a bad life. Not at all...
@Jolly said in Interesting Funeral:
Just another guy who lived a good life, had a great family and was able to laugh the week he died.
Not a bad life. Not at all...
Well written and your last couple of sentences is a good legacy for anyone to have
