IN LOVING MEMORY REG ANDERSON

MY WONDERFUL UNCLE REG LOST HIS BATTLE WITH CANCER THIS MORNING AND PASSED AWAY. HE WAS SOMEONE VERY DEAR TO ME WHEN I WAS GROWING UP AND SOMEONE I ALWAYS LOVED TO SPEND TIME WITH. WE ALWAYS HAD A JOKE BEWEEN US ABOUT MY TOENAILS!!!! AS A CHILD I WOULDNT LET ANYONE CUT THEM OTHER THEN HIM. HE FOR SOME STRANGE REASON WAS ALWAYS VERY PROUD OF THAT. THE FIRST THING HE SAID TO ME WHEN I SAW HIM FOUR WEEKS AGO AFTER THE HUGS AND HOW HE COULDNT BELIVE HE WAS SEEING ME AGAIN WAS,
DO YOU NEED ME TO CUT YOUR TOENAILS? I INFORMED HIM THAT I HAD HAD THEM REMOVED IN APRIL THIS YEAR, WHEN HE ASKED WHY, I TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS BECAUSE HE WASNT AROUND TO TAKE CARE OF THEM FOR ME ANYMORE. HE ALSO VERY PROUDLY TOLD HEATHER AND HAYLEY WHEN THEY VISTED THREE YEARS AGO HOW HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD CUT THERE MOTHERS TOENAILS. LOL.
HE WAS A WONDERFUL PERSON AND IM VERY SAD HE WILL NOT BE THERE WHEN I VISIT AGAIN. IM VERY VERY GRATEFUL I WENT WHEN I DID SO I WAS ABLE TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM ONE MORE TIME. MY LAST MEMORY OF HIM THAT DAY WAS HIM MAKING IT TO THE DRIVEWAY ON HIS WALKER SO HE COULD BLOW ME KISSES AS WE DROVE AWAY.
MY BIG REGRET IS THAT I CANNOT ATTEND HIS FUNERAL. THAT SUCKS MORE THEN I COULD EVER SAY SO I WONT EVEN TRY. I WROTE HIM A LETTER AND MAILED IT LAST MONDAY TELLING HIM HOW WONDERFUL IT HAD BEEN SEEING HIM AGAIN. I HOPE HE RECD IT BEFORE TODAY. THAT I DONT KNOW YET. HE HAD ALL HIS FAMILY WITH HIM, HIS WIFE, CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDEN. HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL.

ABOVE PICTURE AT TOP WAS TAKEN FOUR WEEKS AGO WHEN I WAS THERE VISITING THEM. THIS ONE BELOW WAS TAKEN OF ME AND HIM BACK IN 1978 WHEN I MARRIED LEE AND JAYS DAD.