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Passing (part 2)
Sep. 18th, 2008 08:42 pmMy dad just called to let me know that my uncle John was found passed away in his apartment today.
He was only 53 years old.
He married once, for a few years, when I was very little, and divorced; he had no children. He had a master's in mathematics from OU and was a serious Sooners fan. He loved practical jokes and would spend weeks setting them up.
My grandmother hasn't been told yet that her only son is gone. She just lost her husband this summer and now this.
Oh Lord, please give my grandmother strength to bear losing her son, and my mother strength to bear losing her brother (and patience to deal with my grandmother). Be with all of us in this time of our sorrow.
"The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." (Psalm 90:10)
He was only 53 years old.
He married once, for a few years, when I was very little, and divorced; he had no children. He had a master's in mathematics from OU and was a serious Sooners fan. He loved practical jokes and would spend weeks setting them up.
My grandmother hasn't been told yet that her only son is gone. She just lost her husband this summer and now this.
Oh Lord, please give my grandmother strength to bear losing her son, and my mother strength to bear losing her brother (and patience to deal with my grandmother). Be with all of us in this time of our sorrow.
"The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." (Psalm 90:10)
