Last night, around 10:30 p.m., my 94-year-old grandfather, Elmer "Bud" Recknagel, passed away. He was surrounded by his family and died peacefully, without any pain or long suffering.
They told me he was doing yard work, when he had the bad fall that sent him to the hospital with a punctured lung. And how appropriate, for him to go that way. One might ask, "What business did a 94-year-old man have doing yard work ?" but Grandpa always loved the outdoors; he maintained a high standard and work ethic, and he believed if you wanted a job done right, you did it yourself. I can't think of a more fitting way for him to go (except perhaps to be whisked off by Christ during the Rapture, which is what he always hoped would happen!). Veteran.
Grandpa served in WWII as an infa…
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