We had been dating for a couple months – and now it was time
she told me – to meet her parents!
I had a 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix and this was 1981.
It was a burgundy red with a half white leather top.
All leather inside to match the burgundy and bucket seats!
My thought was maybe he would like the car
and then like me! LOL
So goes a nervous mind of a 31 year old!
Bill was a man – and a vet of WWII.
Serving in the war and told me a few stories.
Sherry told me he had been in a motorcycle accident some years before.
And had been injured really bad
to the point he almost died.
He was a master carpenter and did all the remodeling
on their home – building additions
and was currently building a chimney
and facing it with bricks as we drove up and parked.
She told me just be normal – but he was imposing – 6′ 2″
Sherry got her height from him and his personality
I was later to find out.
She reminds me so much of him.
We got out of the car
and he later told me he thought I was a State Trooper
because I looked like a State Trooper friend of his named Carl.
Sherry Debby Bonnie standing just to the right of the front porch he had put on and was facing the chimney with bricks
He stopped as we walked up and she introduced me and we shook hands.
It was a firm grip – a grip of a Vet and father if you know what I mean.
He had Three daughters – Sherry being the oldest.
We both had been married before
and man I was nervous.
Debby Sherry Bonnie
But – after a few words he made me feel at home
and ever since that day – he became a second father to me.
Teaching me all about construction –
I still can not master it but at least I know some things!
My own father passed when I was 19 and the last years of his life
he spent in a battle with lung cancer.
Bill loved to cook – as did Barb – but I remember him standing
in the kichen at the stove watching over the fry pan
making breakfast – smiling that crooked grin he had.
Sherry Bonnie Debbie Barb Bill
That first day back then started a friendship
that lasted some 18 or 19 years until he passed away.
He told me many a story – both about the War
and his early life growing up in Ludlow
where my brother in law Bill grew up.
Cindy Tom ( Papa) Sherry
We have been together 39 1/2 years Married 38 years
and every time I look at her
I see Bill – certain little things I notice.
And a lot of people tell her that I look like her father
some who did not know us asked if I were his son.
Tom ( Papa) Sherry
Yep – that day in 1981 I drove my car up the driveway
and by the way – he liked that car!
Just another day of memories
and one that I cherish to this day-
THE DAY I MET BILL!
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