Notes - two days of friendship and respect

        

4 September 2015

         Your trip to Kim and Paul’s was uneventful until you got across from the OSU Academic Campus and were stopped by a Columbus Motorcycle policeman on Rt. 315 – you were caught by laser doing 70/71 in a 55 mph zone. (The ‘L’ came up on your radar detector.) You were guilty as charged and didn’t protest. After you were issued the ticket he asked you to rate his performance in the line of duty 10 being high. You gave him a 9. He was quite happy, you think it made his day. – Amorella

         1423 hours. He did his job and was polite and professional about it. I deserved the speeding ticket. I’ll pay my dues and hope it won’t happen again. Most of the time I stay below the 15 mph above but traffic was moving and so was I.

         You saw a few old friends at the funeral home tonight. Steve G. and Don L. for two as well as Jean L. and Judy S. Many people attended. - Amorella

         It was so good to see Judy. She was one of my favorite friends in our high school class. I wish I had had more time to spend with her but I left as Jean, who was going to dinner with her, arrived. She was talking with Ruth Ann when I left her. I am so happy Fritz convinced me to go to our fiftieth reunion. People you grew up with are special your life through, at least they are to me. 

        

5 September 2015

         Mid-afternoon. You had lunch at Panera with Gayle before heading across the street to the south lot of Macy’s at Polaris. Carol stopped to shop before heading home. Kim, Paul, Owen and Brennan are heading to a cabin down in the Hocking Hills for two nights with their friends Stacey and Aaron and their two young boys. Stacey and Kim were roommates for four years at Miami and when Kim was working on her Masters at OSU they lived together in an apartment in Clintonville while Stacey was working full time. They have been friends for eighteen years this September.

         Earlier you met Judy, Jean and Ken at the First Presbyterian Church for Bill Miller’s funeral. This is the first time in your memory since junior high that you went to a service at what you used to call a ‘High Presbyterian’ Church. – Tommy Miller, Bill’s former wife, invited Judy S. to the private funeral services at the gravesite. Judy was grateful for the gesture and you left Judy with Jean and Ken after the church service. You were invited, like the others, to a luncheon in the church basement but you excused yourself to go have lunch with Carol and Gayle before heading home. - Amorella

         1429 hours. Bill was in the same class as Kay and Ann G. and Rodney T. I remember in those days the humor was that the First Presbyterians only talked to Methodist and United Brethren (the Otterbein College affiliation), who have long since become United Methodist). I don’t remember that being strictly true but for those in our group of adolescents it was pretty much like that socially in the late forties and early fifties. The Presbyterian Church I knew preached and held high expectations for their youth and the entire congregation. Today was no different.

         Evening. You had left over baked beans and two turkey wieners for supper, Carol had fruit and an ice cream. You both watched NBC News then you watched this week’s “Under the Dome”. – Amorella

         2156 hours. I feel good having honored Bill as well as Judy these last two days. I will have to visit the Blendon Township Cemetery one of these days as well as Pioneer and the Old Methodist -- out of respect more than anything else.

         Post. - Amorella

         2210 hours. I cannot leave out our time with Kim, Paul, Owen and Brennan. We had a very good time; we always have good family time. I cherish this. I'm going up on Thursday for the Class of 1960 supper and am spending the night at Kim and Paul's. Carol may come also, or may not. She hasn't decided. We have had such a good life when and where it counts most. I consider us very fortunate and I am humbly thankful. - rho 

          It was your desire not to write the paragraph above, but it would have been quite arrogant not to have written down your thoughts. Who would know you are a very private and quiet person from the words expressed day after day, year after year. - Amorella