I posted the news about my friend and our class
mate yesterday.. Last night I
thought of so many things we shared and went to
bed feeling really down.

This morning I walked out the
front door and saw this sun
rise. IT reminded me
that nothing dies it just changes.






The Class of 1966 has lost a great guy.

I got a note from Mary and she forwarded
this one. I don't think the family would mind
if I shared it.


Mary,

I got your email address from Emmet's address book as I believe you are someone Emmet knew from Maryville, TN. Unfortunately Emmet passed away on July 22. You may have know that he had cancer, Multiple Myeloma to be exact. He had been doing amazingly well until early June. He had signs of some reaction to his donor stem cell transplant. Where this is not unusual, and we thought he had begun to recover well, he had a stroke on July 8th. The stroke site in his brain seemed to grow every day for 2 weeks, most of that time Emmet was un-responsive and in a coma. He died calmly surrounded by family. While we were braced for his death we are all trying to find the new reality of life with out him.
I am most proud of our 32 year marriage and our 2 wonderful daughters. He died to young.