On August 22, 2008 at 11:43, Doc peacefully passed into eternity. We had a long and fruitful marriage. We were married in Covington, Kentucky on February 28, 1942. During the next nineteen years, we had six children. He spent two years as a soldier in WWII and because of Crowell Collier Publishing Company's demise he worked in Kentucky for a year while I waited in Springfield, O for him to find a house for us and in later years, he spent a year away from our home working in Mt. Vernon, Illinois until he could get a job here in Louisville again. Four years out of the sixty-six we were together.
We had some rocky times and we had some smooth times but we always toughed it out and came out on top. It would be hard to tell in the limited space of this blog what we accomplished in the sixty six years of our union and hard to tell of the joys and sorrows we endured together. The important thing is we lived up to our commitment: "for better or for worse until death do us part."
It is comforting to know that his genes live on in the fourteen grandchildren and twenty-some great grandchildren and the impact of their lives and deeds will benefit future generations. Who knows what great things they can or will accomplish? He will be a part of it all. His genes live on!
" And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void in any heart,so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!"
Charles Dickens
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