The sibs -- Sheila, Madeline, and Kenny -- August 2007 -- Ken's 70th birthday The Sibs -- Madeline, Sheila, and Kenny -- June 2006 We buried my brother on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. It was 90 degrees out at the cemetery, and we sat there with sweat rolling down under our arms and wet between the legs while we eulogized him and then covered him with one shovel full after another of dirt. It still hasn't sunk in that he's gone. I look around his house and don't see him there. When someone sits at his chair in the breakfast room I want to say get up, that's his chair. This was a man who will be missed and very much. He was a wonderful, unassuming guy who was so smart and so cultured like his wife, Barb, said, a modern Renaissance man. Actually, the service was very short the Rabbi's eulogy that was quite good considering that he got the main facts from us just yesterday. Sure a few details were wrong but they really didn't matter in the scheme of things. Then he called Ben to … [Read more...]