Losing a good friend and neighbor

Discuss non-crawler related issues here (keep it sane, please)
Post Reply
townlineterry
440 crawler
440 crawler
Posts: 236
Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:01 pm
Location: Pa.

Losing a good friend and neighbor

Post by townlineterry » Wed Aug 19, 2020 3:35 am

Yesterday a neighbor was moved to hospice, terminal cancer. Paul is 96, has always farmed, he was working up until last week. He has been a institution in the neighborhood as long as we have been here. When we bought our place he helped US clean things up. When we had horses we bought hay from him. He always help us put it up in the barn, would never take anything extra for the work. We spent alot of time going to auctions together when I was tractor shopping. He considered my wife and I green horns, never said anything negative but you knew he was amused, but ready to help out. Worked for me when I started the sawmill, and worked hard. He baled hay this summer. Two weeks ago I he brought a cornpicker he just bought over to be pressure washed, last week he was working on the gravity wagon. 96, and he was still thinking ahead.
The man was out there almost to his last day doing his thing.. Going to be odd not seeing him out there chugging along. Whig Hill, Pa. Is not going to be the same.

B Town
350 crawler
350 crawler
Posts: 752
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:04 pm
Location: Western Iowa

Re: Losing a good friend and neighbor

Post by B Town » Wed Aug 19, 2020 4:01 am

Sorry to hear the devastating news. He sounds like a great man. Like someone I strive to be.

User avatar
77 Ford
1010 crawler
1010 crawler
Posts: 477
Joined: Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:52 pm
Location: Missouri

Re: Losing a good friend and neighbor

Post by 77 Ford » Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:39 am

Sounds like someone we should aspire to be more like, my condolences.
JD- 450C track loader
Serial #208336T

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests