http://174.141.233.253/~eturnal Beautiful Memories, A Beautiful Tribute Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 http://174.141.233.253/~eturnal/ron-bradford/#comment-8658 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 02:46:14 +0000 http://174.141.233.253/~eturnal/?page_id=30797#comment-8658 Ron played so many roles in my life throughout the years. He married my mom when I was eight. He loved her dearly. That was always obvious. In his later years he told me often that the best decision of his life was marrying Donna.
He bought me my first guitar and he was always my biggest music fan.
The last 10 years of his life, as Alzheimer’s slowly took his memories, he and I bonded
in a way we never had previously. It was extraordinarily difficult to deal with the complications of that disease, but there were some silver linings too. I will remember playing billiards together everyday for 3 years, until he could no longer remember how to play. There were long walks with the dogs and lot’s of coffee drinking together. I loved his sense of humor.
I want to thank all of his caregivers at Good Samaritan for their kindness and for falling in love with him as if he was part of their family. Not once in the 5 years he was in Memory Care did I worry about his well being.
He is now reunited with the love of his life and free to ride the wide open spaces of heaven, never to be fenced in again.
He was my favorite cowboy – Kim

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