Goodbye Pop’s…

Henry Kuylen (aka Pop’s), my grandfather, passed away today, 7/26/2008 @ 12:15pm. It was very sudden and apparently painless. He collapsed after lunch and by the time 911 was called and the ambulance took him to the hospital two blocks away, he was gone.

I guess if you have to go, as we all will have to, there are much much worse ways. His Alzheimer’s was progressing, but thank God we never got to the no speaking and food tube stage. Some days were better than others, but when I last saw him, just a couple weeks ago, he knew who I was and was “there.” Not a bad last memory at all…

He was a good man and a great grandfather, who led a long (he would have been 92 next month), fruitful and interesting life. We will all miss him.

We will keep his stories alive and he’ll always have a place in our hearts; as long as you are remembered then you’re really not gone are you?

Goodbye Pop’s, we’ll meet again one day…

 

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