Our Pop, above all else, was a caring, loving, honest family man. Born the son of a Southern Baptist preacher, he grew up playing the piano at his father's many churches throughout the Mississippi Delta.
He spent summers picking peas and getting into mischief with the Embry cousins at grandpa's farm. He grew up poor but that didn't stop him from having a rich childhood.
After high school, he enlisted in the Army and spent most of his enlistment in Japan specializing in the receiving and transmission of encoded Morse code messages. This experience would shape his love of crosswords and many other forms of word puzzles. He carried a Cross pen in his front pocket and a Dell puzzle book in his back pocket. That book would travel with him in his briefcase throughout the years while on business.
After the Army, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and would become involved in offshore oil rigs, specifically in the pipe inspection, coating division of the industry. This would become his career.
Along the way he met his true love, his wife Gunilla while on holiday in Sweden. Together they rode BSA motorcycles throughout Europe and Asia. His 6'6" gentle stature would strike fear but mostly curiosity in the people who witnessed the spectacle roaring by on that bike. They would marry in Singapore and went on to create a lifetime of memories wherever Pop's work would take them.
They made lifelong friendships with fellow expats in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Gabon, Singapore, Dubai, etc. The parties were lengedary and the stories retold for decades. They started their own family in 1978 while living in Den Helder, Holland. The family would eventually move on to Casper, Wyoming where the kids grew up and finally to the Texas gulf coast.
Pop never forgot his humble roots no matter where life took him. His hobbies included genealogy, umpiring little league baseball and football, barbecuing with close friends and family at the house, and playing the piano and the guitar. Dare he would also carry a tune whilst plucking the banjo or rocking the piano.
All he wanted for his family was happiness and love. That legacy continues in his dearly missed absence.
Those who knew him remember him fondly while those who loved him miss him everyday.
He loved his family.
He spent summers picking peas and getting into mischief with the Embry cousins at grandpa's farm. He grew up poor but that didn't stop him from having a rich childhood.
After high school, he enlisted in the Army and spent most of his enlistment in Japan specializing in the receiving and transmission of encoded Morse code messages. This experience would shape his love of crosswords and many other forms of word puzzles. He carried a Cross pen in his front pocket and a Dell puzzle book in his back pocket. That book would travel with him in his briefcase throughout the years while on business.
After the Army, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and would become involved in offshore oil rigs, specifically in the pipe inspection, coating division of the industry. This would become his career.
Along the way he met his true love, his wife Gunilla while on holiday in Sweden. Together they rode BSA motorcycles throughout Europe and Asia. His 6'6" gentle stature would strike fear but mostly curiosity in the people who witnessed the spectacle roaring by on that bike. They would marry in Singapore and went on to create a lifetime of memories wherever Pop's work would take them.
They made lifelong friendships with fellow expats in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Gabon, Singapore, Dubai, etc. The parties were lengedary and the stories retold for decades. They started their own family in 1978 while living in Den Helder, Holland. The family would eventually move on to Casper, Wyoming where the kids grew up and finally to the Texas gulf coast.
Pop never forgot his humble roots no matter where life took him. His hobbies included genealogy, umpiring little league baseball and football, barbecuing with close friends and family at the house, and playing the piano and the guitar. Dare he would also carry a tune whilst plucking the banjo or rocking the piano.
All he wanted for his family was happiness and love. That legacy continues in his dearly missed absence.
Those who knew him remember him fondly while those who loved him miss him everyday.
He loved his family.
Our Pop, above all else, was a caring, loving, honest family man. Born the son of a Southern Baptist preacher, he grew up playing the piano at his father's many churches throughout the Mississippi Delta.
He spent summers picking peas and getting into mischief with the Embry cousins at grandpa's farm. He grew up poor but that didn't stop him from having a rich childhood.
After high school, he enlisted in the Army and spent most of his enlistment in Japan specializing in the receiving and transmission of encoded Morse code messages. This experience would shape his love of crosswords and many other forms of word puzzles. He carried a Cross pen in his front pocket and a Dell puzzle book in his back pocket. That book would travel with him in his briefcase throughout the years while on business.
After the Army, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and would become involved in offshore oil rigs, specifically in the pipe inspection, coating division of the industry. This would become his career.
Along the way he met his true love, his wife Gunilla while on holiday in Sweden. Together they rode BSA motorcycles throughout Europe and Asia. His 6'6" gentle stature would strike fear but mostly curiosity in the people who witnessed the spectacle roaring by on that bike. They would marry in Singapore and went on to create a lifetime of memories wherever Pop's work would take them.
They made lifelong friendships with fellow expats in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Gabon, Singapore, Dubai, etc. The parties were lengedary and the stories retold for decades. They started their own family in 1978 while living in Den Helder, Holland. The family would eventually move on to Casper, Wyoming where the kids grew up and finally to the Texas gulf coast.
Pop never forgot his humble roots no matter where life took him. His hobbies included genealogy, umpiring little league baseball and football, barbecuing with close friends and family at the house, and playing the piano and the guitar. Dare he would also carry a tune whilst plucking the banjo or rocking the piano.
All he wanted for his family was happiness and love. That legacy continues in his dearly missed absence.
Those who knew him remember him fondly while those who loved him miss him everyday.
He loved his family.
He spent summers picking peas and getting into mischief with the Embry cousins at grandpa's farm. He grew up poor but that didn't stop him from having a rich childhood.
After high school, he enlisted in the Army and spent most of his enlistment in Japan specializing in the receiving and transmission of encoded Morse code messages. This experience would shape his love of crosswords and many other forms of word puzzles. He carried a Cross pen in his front pocket and a Dell puzzle book in his back pocket. That book would travel with him in his briefcase throughout the years while on business.
After the Army, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and would become involved in offshore oil rigs, specifically in the pipe inspection, coating division of the industry. This would become his career.
Along the way he met his true love, his wife Gunilla while on holiday in Sweden. Together they rode BSA motorcycles throughout Europe and Asia. His 6'6" gentle stature would strike fear but mostly curiosity in the people who witnessed the spectacle roaring by on that bike. They would marry in Singapore and went on to create a lifetime of memories wherever Pop's work would take them.
They made lifelong friendships with fellow expats in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Gabon, Singapore, Dubai, etc. The parties were lengedary and the stories retold for decades. They started their own family in 1978 while living in Den Helder, Holland. The family would eventually move on to Casper, Wyoming where the kids grew up and finally to the Texas gulf coast.
Pop never forgot his humble roots no matter where life took him. His hobbies included genealogy, umpiring little league baseball and football, barbecuing with close friends and family at the house, and playing the piano and the guitar. Dare he would also carry a tune whilst plucking the banjo or rocking the piano.
All he wanted for his family was happiness and love. That legacy continues in his dearly missed absence.
Those who knew him remember him fondly while those who loved him miss him everyday.
He loved his family.
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