In loving memory of Lon C. Mitchell, Jr.

Tuesday June 1st my uncle Lon died from Liver cancer. The sickness took him with in 5 weeks of it's discovery. Cancer isn't something we think of as sudden death, but for him it kinda was. No one was suprised that he died but it shocked everyone that it was all over so fast! He had no cause, nothing he could have done to prevent it. The doctors said he was in a 1% of 1%.

His funeral was saturday June 5th. It hurt so much to sit there and listen to his wife, his 2 daughters, his son and his son in law all stand up and try so desperatly to convey to us how they felt. It had to be one of the hardest thing any of them ever did. But I understand why they had to do it. The strenght it took is something I will allways admire.

It wasn't my place to say something at the funeral but even if this is never read I do want to say something in memory of him...

...My uncle and I weren't what I considered particularly close but of all of my uncles he was the one who's repsect I sought the most. For some reason it never mattered as much if I made a mistake at a spades game as much with one of the others. Probably it was his reputation for being hard on you if you made mistakes. I remember a game where I was imformed that I was would be uncle Lon's partner. I made a joke about him being mean. I'm thinking it was something as simple as "aw but he's mean". My brother thinking he could mess with our team work laughingly told my unle what I'd said. "Meean?" he asked me. haha I can see the exact look he had on his face! I told him it was a joke but it didn't do any good. He spent the whole wrest of the night making sure I knew he was really just a big softy! He convinced me =)

I'll miss you uncle Lon! <3