Buster,
Great story, Yes Diane and the kids will all of our support, we must be sure
to take good care of them. We will think of you buster tonight and tomorrow.
Please be well and good luck with the surgery, please please keep us posted
and on the list we all need to stick together. Frank would have wanted it
that way.
Linda
62 deep pink Sprite "Pinky"
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Robert Evans <b-evans at earthlink.net> wrote:
> (I am still getting reports from people who have NOT received this post.
> So, I will try it again, but this time in two parts.)
>
>
>
> Of course, never again in life will I pass a Horrid Fright or Horrible
> Destruction without thinking of Frank. Ah, the memories will be with me
> forever.
>
>
>
> One of the highlights of our trip to England was when we visited friends of
> mine in the small (pop. 300) village of Wishford. There, he and Gary
> Butcher, a woodcutter for Lord Pembroke, went down to the Royal Oak, the
> local pub, and teamed up to win the weekly "Quiz Night". The people at the
> Oak still remember with fondness that happy-go-lucky American. And oh, how
> he loved driving the narrow, twisting chicanes of those quiet English
> country lanes. How he did revel when Alan East-Jones took us to Donald
> Healey's pub for a pint. None of his friends, I dare say, every saw Frank
> as humble as he was in Salisbury Cathedral. In Warwick, I was envious
> watching Frank scramble up the 530 steps to the highest pinnacle of Warwick
> Castle, while most others (especially me) were barely able to drag
> themselves up one step at a time. Going down to Hampshire, we stayed with
> Jim and Vicky Lodder and took in the two-day Beaulieu Autojumble, where I
> had met them previously. Frank was duly impressed, for Beaulieu was far
> larger than Carlisle. But the hail fellow well met Frank that we all knew
> so well disappeared when we went we visited his late aunt's convent, and
> especially when he visited the grave site. The elderly nuns were
> fantastic,
> and they took Frank in as one of their own.
>
>
>
> I had hoped to be there to say my final farewell to Frank, but the doc has
> other ideas (I am undergoing a series of test for the next week, and must
> also go in for the surgeon to slice and dice on Tuesday). So, although I
> will not be there in person, I will be in spirit.
>
>
>
> And now, my thoughts and prayers turn to Diane, Tiffany, Frankie and
> Frankie
> Five. Diane will, of course, will be hurting for years to come. Now is
> the
> time that she will need the support of all of us, and I would urge all of
> you to begin to repay Frank's generosity and friendship by keeping in touch
> with her. Simply because Frank is no longer there to help us is no reason
> to leave her in her time of greatest need.
>
>
>
> Buster Evans
>
> The BusterCluster Sprite
>
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