429421Cowboy
01-30-2013, 10:24 AM
We lost a good man and great husband, father and grandfather today. My girlfriend, Miss K's grampa Al had been battling lung cancer for several years now, and he was finally called home to be with the Lord today at 6:15, ending his pain and struggle.
He married Sandy, the second marriage for both of them, and raised her young children as his own, putting up with alot of BS from her ex-husband and family, I felt like he was the only one that knew what i have been going through with K's mother fighting me every step of the way lately. I'll always remember his gift for working with animals and people, always helping animals with their people problems at his training clinics. He loved his wife so very dearly, always fixing her coffee or food right up till the end when most would have been bedridden. He loved to cook, with has cooking and hot temper showing the true Italian he was in the kitchen, he always told me his recipies were so top secret, they all said "Burn before reading" on them. He was USAF Vietnam veteran who served as a mechanic and crew chief before coming back to his family to carry on a normal life like nothing ever happened.
October of 2011, they gave him 3 weeks to live, he was so tough and detirmined, he continued to walk right up until a week ago, when the combination of lung cancer and pneumonia caused him to go to bed, five days ago he shut his eyes and didn't open them again, although he would laugh and smile when people came in to talk to him. Last night K told him that things would be ok and that she and i are gonna take care of gramma together, i truely believe that he needed to hear that she was going to be ok and taken care of before he let himself go. He was a fighter right up till the end, but is in a better place than any of us now, with no more pain and suffering. My only regret is that he won't be here to see our wedding, he always said he wanted to make it there.
God bless you Al, you were the best kind of man and left alot behind to take care of, but i am going to try my best to carry on as you would have! Please look over us like you always have!
He married Sandy, the second marriage for both of them, and raised her young children as his own, putting up with alot of BS from her ex-husband and family, I felt like he was the only one that knew what i have been going through with K's mother fighting me every step of the way lately. I'll always remember his gift for working with animals and people, always helping animals with their people problems at his training clinics. He loved his wife so very dearly, always fixing her coffee or food right up till the end when most would have been bedridden. He loved to cook, with has cooking and hot temper showing the true Italian he was in the kitchen, he always told me his recipies were so top secret, they all said "Burn before reading" on them. He was USAF Vietnam veteran who served as a mechanic and crew chief before coming back to his family to carry on a normal life like nothing ever happened.
October of 2011, they gave him 3 weeks to live, he was so tough and detirmined, he continued to walk right up until a week ago, when the combination of lung cancer and pneumonia caused him to go to bed, five days ago he shut his eyes and didn't open them again, although he would laugh and smile when people came in to talk to him. Last night K told him that things would be ok and that she and i are gonna take care of gramma together, i truely believe that he needed to hear that she was going to be ok and taken care of before he let himself go. He was a fighter right up till the end, but is in a better place than any of us now, with no more pain and suffering. My only regret is that he won't be here to see our wedding, he always said he wanted to make it there.
God bless you Al, you were the best kind of man and left alot behind to take care of, but i am going to try my best to carry on as you would have! Please look over us like you always have!