Normally I post on our blog about the garden and our other interests following retirement. Today the posting has a lot more meaning. Today, fifteen years ago, I lost my daddy at age 80. He passed away peacefully in the Hospice Unit of the Lebanon VA Hospital and, thankfully, we were able to be with him just before his passing. I never called him dad, always daddy.
My young daddy sporting his beard in 1962. We lived in Hummelstown and that was the year of the Hummelstown Bicentennial. The only time I ever saw him with a beard.
This photo is how I remember my dad during the years we lived next door to my parents in Palmyra. This was taken around the mid 1980's.
This photo was taken in the late 1990's a few years before he passed away.
The Scattering Field at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. Daddy's cremains were scattered around the large rock in the middle of the field. The rock reminded us of the mountains he loved, near his childhood home in West Hanover Township.
His gravestone was placed in one of the memorial sections of the Indiantown Gap Cemetery and as it states, he will forever be in our hearts. Rest in Peace, daddy.
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