That Favorite Uncle That We've All Had

[beefeater33]

I've got an uncle that was always a favorite, dying in a nursing home tonight.
My post is to just to say "Thanks Uncle- you made every Christmas GREAT"
He was a Cigar smoker, and one of the best dudes ever..........
My brother and I were just (very) poor kids,and when we went to Uncle Larry's, we had a grand time, I'll never forget it..........
Not to ramble but Uncle Larry............ you're the best, and I Love You............

 

[beefeater33]

The Fucked up part is that with COVID--- I can't even visit him.......... but they said I could go look in his window........... FUCKED UP TIMES WE'RE LIVIN' IN"..................

 

[highwaycobbery]

I’m sorry for your soon to be loss, trying times to be sure. My thoughts are with you on this difficult day.

 

[beefeater33]

^^ Thanks man!............ Holidays are great but they can also be a burden sometimes.......
Life goes on............

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

I've got an uncle that was always a favorite, dying in a nursing home tonight.
My post is to just to say "Thanks Uncle- you made every Christmas GREAT"
He was a Cigar smoker, and one of the best dudes ever..........
My brother and I were just (very) poor kids,and when we went to Uncle Larry's, we had a grand time, I'll never forget it..........
Not to ramble but Uncle Larry............ you're the best, and I Love You............

strikes a chord - mine went too prematurely - he smoked the finest cigars and was a good but troubled and misunderstood individual - think of him a whole lot and miss him immensely.

 

[fightnhampster]

My condolences, friend ?

 

[cshubhra]

Condolences friend! It is evident from your post that your uncle left a superb legacy - Memories!!!

 

[beefeater33]

Condolences friend! It is evident from your post that your uncle left a superb legacy - Memories!!!

Thanks Man.......... He really is a special man.............
I've got a wealth of memories............ Godspeeed............

 

[ray47]

My condolences to you and your family on the passing of your Uncle Larry. I'll keep you all in my prayers .

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Anyone who didn’t have that cigar chomping relative that made everything fun and hilarious missed out. Glad you had him in your life brother. Thoughts and prayers with you and yours.

 

[mso489]

None of my uncles took me under their wing, per se. It was more the grandparents, and two in particular that did that. However, my uncles were role models and examples and I felt a real attachment if not a close friendship with any of them. My aunts were more engaging. I could do thumb nails on each of these, but that's not the subject of the thread. A toast to Uncle Larry who even with this little information I can tell was a most special person.

 

[tbradsim1]

I feel your pain, my cousin died this year, we smoked and joked together, you are not alone. Wish I could say something to help more.

 

[ashdigger]

This is tough. I had an uncle when I was younger that broke all the rules. He never held “a real job”, but he was the hardest working person I ever knew.

I lived with one summer when I was 13. He had a garbage truck route. So here I am at the age 13 hanging off the back of a garbage truck and then throwing trash in the scoop. He also taught me how to drive the garbage truck from the rear deck using the controls back there.

We’d go shooting and because I was working like “an adult” I could have an ice cold Coors beer with lunch and dinner.

My favorite uncle died many years ago when the car he was driving, after a long day of picking apples, was hit by a train. I think if that guy all the time.

When I first read your post last night it haunted me. It brought back a rush of memories.

That’s what you hold on to. Those older memories. Not the bullshit going on right now.

 

[jvnshr]

I have never been that close with my uncles, one is a retired doctor, the other one is a construction engineer. The one that would have been my favorite had died right before I was born, I have been named after him. My father sometimes tells me that I resemble him too much. My condolences to you @beefeater33.

 

[mso489]

We weren't close, but his son and I were and are, but one of my uncles, my dad's brother, was especially colorful. He owned one of the first Corvettes, and a series of Triumph and MG roadsters, and a magnificent Oldsmobile convertible that he later said was his favorite, jet black with red leather upholstery. For a time, he lived on a lagoon off Lake Erie near Cleveland, then moved to a riverside place near Ft. Myers, Fla., were he had horses and worked for a time as skipper of a river cruise boat, not day tours but multi-day trips. In World War II, he was a landing craft officer at the first U.S. amphibious landing on Tarawa in the mid-Pacific. It was a learning curve and very bloody as people learned or died. When I visited his son between finishing grad school and getting a job, he expressed concern that I might distract his kid from his work and family life. No veteran camaraderie there. But he rebuilt his tractor engine in his 80's, and his ashes went back to the river on which he lived, and when I heard he'd died, I went to a bench outside my work place and had what was a good cry for me, not being much of a crier.

 

[kcghost]

It is so sad to lose someone you thought so much of.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Thoughts and prayers, brother; sorry for your loss.

My father died almost 50 years ago, and his older brother was very - uh- avuncular in the best way. I miss his kindness and wisdom.

 

[STP]

My condolences. My favorite uncle recently passed away. RIP ?

 

[python]

Sorry to hear the sad news.

 

[condorlover1]

I am sorry for your impending loss. I had an Uncle Dennis, well I called him Uncle but he wasn't a blood relative since he was a friend of my Father from his army days. I would imagine he has probably passed on by now since he would have to be 100+. He had lived in Canada and worked as a lumber jack after WW2 before returning to the U.K in the late 1950s. He used to belong to the same gun club as my Father, reload his own ammunition and all sorts of crazy stuff including winning the Bisley Cup two years in a row for rifle marksmanship. I remember he always smoked small cigars that came in a tin. One day he said he was going hunting overseas and no one ever saw him again. I just think he got fed up with home life and decided to have one last adventure. Hell of guy!