Great Grandpa Voeller

Last week, the world lost a great man. Cindy's Grandfather, the boys Great Grandfather, and my friend, went home after 95 years of adventure. We loved this man with all our hearts. This was a real man. He loved his family, he worked hard, and loved his family. Yeah I wrote it twice. He loved everyone that much. He was a proud man and rightfully so. He was braver than you, and twice as smart. He was stubborn and set in his ways, because his ways worked.

I am so thankful to God for letting him stick around long enough to have a close relationship with the boys. In this World, the boys can use all the role models they can get. He was one of the best. The man smiled for everyone, smiled big for his children, bigger for his grand children, biggest for his great grand children. He loved having little ones around him and I am glad my boys were there all the way to the end. I hope they remember their time with him the last few weeks as they grow older. He was in rare form and quite the character. Singing, dancing, telling jokes.

I know Cindy will want to say something later so I won't go any further. I will leave you with a bit of my favorite poem that has been on my mind since he passed:

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.