Died Quotations | Page 7

My great uncle died on the third charge up Missionary Ridge in Tennessee,

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

My husband died just two weeks before the storm of a recurrence of throat cancer. I'm almost glad it happened before the storm, because this would have been a terrible blow to him. He was not as tough as I am.

My husband died four years ago. And I told him that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy.

My husband died doing what he loved most, flying. I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man, husband and soldier.

My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man, husband and soldier.

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me!

My grandfather died in 1952. I never did meet him, but I did meet my grandmother and my aunts, who lived to a ripe old age.

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.