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Friday, November 25, 2016

Dad in the News

Here are several links to information about my father's life and death.  Both are from our local newspaper--The Hutchinson News.

The first is the result of a reporter having called my brother Lowell asking for an interview "because your father was an influential man."  After checking with the rest of us who had gathered to meet with a representative from the funeral home, he invited her to join us afterward.  The article went to press (beginning on the front page) before the day was over--the day after Dad's death.  It arrived in our boxes on Thanksgiving Day.  Here's the link.

We laughed together last night trying to imagine how anyone thought to pursue the writing of this story.  Then we remembered that when he wrote to a newspaper--which happened with some frequency, he was in the habit of showing up at the office of the periodical he was writing to.  Then he asked to see the editor and handed his writing to him personally.  Several weeks ago he and his brother Paul drove together to Newton (about 45 minutes away) to do this at the office of the Mennonite World Review. We could all well imagine that his appearance and demeanor made him memorable.  He was over six feet tall, bald and bearded, with angular features, clearly of the Amish Mennonite persuasion.  He would no doubt have shaken the editor's hand, smiled, and looked directly into his eyes as he handed over his writing.

Here's a  link to the obituary.




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