Bette Hair – someone I considered to be a sort of grandmother – ran the in-home daycare I attended. When Bette retired, Daddy wrote a poem to celebrate the wonderful, loving person she was. How lucky our lives have been blessed For we know that Bette’s the best She cared for each child And never […]
On July 4, 2002 at your Uncle Bob and Aunt Linda’s home in Akron we were having a Halle-reunion and combo 80th B-Day party for Grandma Estelle. Christine, Danny and I (with Bob & Linda secretly read-in) had pre-arranged to have a “spontaneous/surprise” wedding. We gave Grandma a gift box that had a wine glass and cloth napkin […]
I met Jon and Lisa Halle some time in the Fall of 1996, when our daughters Sam and Caroline were in junior kindergarten together. Jon was always friendly and outgoing. He made it a point to get to know the other parents in the class, and we developed a friendship based on our common goal […]
Today’s post is in celebration of Daddy’s parents, because this week is particularly charged with memories. Yesterday would have been Grandma’s 93rd birthday (born 7/7/1922), and, as mentioned in yesterday’s post, Grandpa died July 3, 1994. This is one of the last pictures I have with the two of them together. As an aside, this photo […]
Because Pop-Pop died when I was young (21 years ago on July 3rd), Daddy made sure I remembered him in simple ways. In addition to talking about him regularly, he made the desktop background on our “play” computer this photo of Grandpa Max modeling!
We’re sorry for what happened to this great husband and dad He had so many qualities and none of them were bad. We will all miss that special Mr. Halle If we had to vote on that, there would be a million tallies. He was the little engine type of man Who always thought, “I […]
Celebrating Jon 