rayporter
WKR
have you got that call?
what do you do if a friend calls from 750 miles away.
in a week it will be 11 years since i got the call from my best friends wife, she was bawling and i could only understand a few words "sams dead"
it was just getting dark here and raining. it was snowing in ohio.
i sat in stunned silence for an hour. finally marilyn asked me what i was going to do. i guess i am going up there i told her. a few minutes of thought and i grabbed my coat and hit the road.
i pulled into her drive at daylight when my phone rang. she asked are you going to come up?"
when i told her i was sitting outside she came flying out through the snow to hug me and was still crying , as was i.
i sorted his guns for 2 days and made a few calls to see if i could get some one to make a serious offer on all at once.
one fellow offered $7000 compared. to others of about 3000. i told her to take the 7000. yes were worth more but i would have been at least a year selling them.
so i have been sitting here just reminiscing.
the summer before we had paddled the boundary waters and he was not normal. i could not put a finger on it but he just did not put his normal effort into anything. that winter he had a stroke. i am sure now he had a mini stroke on the trip.
the following year we went elk hinting and i killed a bull and of course he had trouble. he went to camp and laid down while i brought the meat down.
and that winter he had heart surgery. 4 days later he was gone.
the following year i had an either sex tag. before i left his wife gave me an urn with his ashes and i emptied the urn over a cow carcass as i read from the bible. he loved the mountains as do i.
what do you do if a friend calls from 750 miles away.
in a week it will be 11 years since i got the call from my best friends wife, she was bawling and i could only understand a few words "sams dead"
it was just getting dark here and raining. it was snowing in ohio.
i sat in stunned silence for an hour. finally marilyn asked me what i was going to do. i guess i am going up there i told her. a few minutes of thought and i grabbed my coat and hit the road.
i pulled into her drive at daylight when my phone rang. she asked are you going to come up?"
when i told her i was sitting outside she came flying out through the snow to hug me and was still crying , as was i.
i sorted his guns for 2 days and made a few calls to see if i could get some one to make a serious offer on all at once.
one fellow offered $7000 compared. to others of about 3000. i told her to take the 7000. yes were worth more but i would have been at least a year selling them.
so i have been sitting here just reminiscing.
the summer before we had paddled the boundary waters and he was not normal. i could not put a finger on it but he just did not put his normal effort into anything. that winter he had a stroke. i am sure now he had a mini stroke on the trip.
the following year we went elk hinting and i killed a bull and of course he had trouble. he went to camp and laid down while i brought the meat down.
and that winter he had heart surgery. 4 days later he was gone.
the following year i had an either sex tag. before i left his wife gave me an urn with his ashes and i emptied the urn over a cow carcass as i read from the bible. he loved the mountains as do i.
