I called him Dad. Other people who knew him called him Colonel - the rank he earned during a very long career in the Army including several tours of Vietnam, Grenada and other deployments.

He was in great physical heath and extremely active for a man in his late 70’s. He had even climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro about 10 years ago. Needless to say It was a shock to us when I got the call that he was involved in a freak accident at the gym. He passed away a few days later in April of 2019, just shy of his 78th birthday.