Remember what I was doing, and where I was that day still. Loaded into the car at 3:00 AM the following Monday and drove to Goodland, Kansas to attend the funeral. Got back to Omaha at 11:00 that night. A sad weekend indeed.
He was my mother's neighbor! One of the saddest days of my young life! He was alway so nice to us! He'd play catch with us and always let us play with his 2 pups in his yard!
side note: I also vividly remember his gf washing his chevy pickup in a lime green bikini while we would peek through the blinds! Those were the days!