Dad's birthday - August 5

Today, Friday, August 5, 2011, would have been my father's 97th birthday. What is special about it is that he passed away at the age of 67 with congestive heart failure. In March it will be 30 years that he has been gone. My mother has been on her own all that time. She will be 98 at the end of this month and is doing brilliantly. She told me today that their wedding breakfast was at her parents' home in Hamilton. Her three best girlfriends served. That was in 1939. They had been married 42 years when Dad died. He was a lovely man, hard-working, devoted and funny at times. Happy Birthday, Dad.