Last Friday I got a call from my mother saying that my uncle Charlie had died the evening before. I didn\u2019t know what to say about this, and I still don\u2019t. In the grand scheme of things I ended up being \u201ccloser\u201d to my mother\u2019s relatives (Charlie was my mother\u2019s brother in-law) than my father\u2019s because we seemed to see them more. Visits to Aunt Lois and Uncle Charlie\u2019s were quite common growing up. Although I can no longer attend, my mom\u2019s family gets together for thanksgiving and Christmas every year. I remember many times sitting in Lois and Charlie\u2019s house watching the parade waiting for the food to be served. <\/p>\n
Charlie\u2019s health had been deteriorating for some time now, and he\u2019d been having heart trouble. The news of his death wasn\u2019t really a shock to anyone \u2013 but sad and unfortunate. However, Charlie had already given his contribution to the world. He was a scout master, a former US Army soldier, a small business owner in the small town of Wooster, and raised my cousins to be Eagle Scouts and upstanding members of their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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