Our Cousin Ted

Darryl
Ted's Cousin

I haven't seen Ted in a couple of years, as a Family that usually gets together for family events especially Christmas, Mothers Day, Easter and so on. Everyone tries to make it but as the kids get older we all seem to have places to be and other commitments that we can't skip out on or the issue of distance. But I remember that all those times we got together as a large family, at some point in the night you would talk to Ted. And the cool thing about Ted was that he remembered what we talked about last time we met. About school or work or what we were going to do for our career. Even though there was over a ten year age gap between him and the rest of the cousins, he still took the time to talk to us and not blow us off like we were little kids. This past Christmas was hard on all of us. I was looking forward to seeing him and his beard, talking to him about what he and I have been doing in the last couple of years, about his new job and my change in careers again. I was looking forward to seeing him because I just hadn’t seen him in awhile. I remember a couple days before Christmas I was driving home and thinking about the up coming festivities, and his face popped into my head and I thought, "Hey, that’s right, I haven’t seen Ted in a long time."

To me Ted was a great listener, a humble man and enjoyment to be around. After reading all the other people that knew him, I began to see that people agreed with the way I thought of him, but also saw a side that you don’t always see. He loved what he did and wanted to do the best he could in it. I thank all those people that have written on this blog, cause it made me feel like I was sitting right beside him this Christmas hearing what he had been up to.

Ted will be greatly missed, but Never forgotten