Memories of a Brother....

 
This beautiful bouquet was given to our family by our neighbors {thank you Delgados}  in honoring the passing of my husbands' brother....aren't they pretty?  We have had such an emotional week.  We had the viewing on Monday evening and the service and funeral was on Tuesday.  It was a beautiful service and the preacher did a wonderful job capturing the life of Keith Hammonds.  He was a man that lived life to the fullest!  He worked hard but played hard.  The stories that came out, on that gloomy day in the church of my husband and his brother brought laughter to the room.  He told of the time when they got pulled over by the police and Keith thinking that his younger brother was the "innocent" one gave his name instead of his own.  When they looked up his{Mr. Incredible} record..they found out he had outstanding parking tickets...the police looked over at my husband and if he{Keith} is Troy Mader, who are you?  Well....they both spent the night in jail that night.  He also told about how one time the Gardeners came to clean the yard at Keith's house and when he came around the Pool he came face to face with an ALLIGATOR, it was my husbands' "pet"..he needed a place to put him and the pool is a logical place for an Alligator, right?  Since he got out of the "fish" tank one time and scared the mailman away when he came up to the doorway over at his Condo and started hissing at him!!   They had good times him and his brother growing up.  Keith's life was cut  way too short, at only 49, he had so much more living to do and was just getting ready to retire, he had achieved so much.  Keith was also such a natural athlete, whatever sport he took up he did very well.  He played baseball in his younger days, was the quarter back for his High School, love to waterski or snowski..it all came so easy for him.  He had so much more living in him and we will miss him....terribly, our hearts are filled with sadness as he left this world behind.   

Here is Mr. Incredible with his BFF at the memorial service..they both were the pallbearers along with my husband's father, I think the coordinated their head ware!

Aren't they a pair, with their Cue-ball heads?  

Some flowers from the memorial service...{thank you Gina}.  Yes....all we have now are our memories of a father, a husband, a friend and a brother.  Rest in Peace....Keith, R.I.P.  your time here on this earth was way too short.