[AJD] Sad report

[David Bruce]

Dennis,
This is certainly bad news.  My thought and prayers are with you and 
your family.
How fitting to be carried by a wagon he restored with you.

David
NW NC

Cotton Family wrote:

>I lost my dad yesterday to a stroke.. He had cancer (only found out about it
>3 months ago) which caused a blood disorder that caused the blood to thicken
>like syrup in January..  I have spent the last 2 days getting a hay wagon
>ready to take his casket from the chapel to the cemetery.. Tractor is all
>washed up and shined up.. Even broke out a bit of wax, nice that the paint
>is fresh as it shines..   Sad part was we were talking the other day in the
>hospital about the rollamatic lock that I just got off ebay and he was
>looking forward to seeing it.. It came today.. Its going to be a cold day
>here in Alabama on Wednesday, but his cherry coffin will look right at home
>on the wagon..   The hay wagon was the very first piece that we restored
>together years ago..  The yellow on the wheels has faded some, but its been
>stored outside waiting for this duty I guess..  Never would have guessed
>that its first real duty was to carry my dad to his final resting spot..
>Should look real nice.. It has green carpet down, with hay bales up front.
>2 pine runners for the coffin to slide on. And on the back rack, a giant
>grapevine wreath with black bows. 
> 
>He loved John Deere's... His first one he ever seen  was a mighty W power
>plant his Granddad had that ran a Mill.. When we saw one when we started
>collecting and restoring, he remarked that dang thing musta shrunk as it was
>a big as a house in his memory.. (He was 5 or 7 at the time)..
>I guess I will get a W in the future to remember him by and to pull belt
>duty on the Meadows Stone Grist mill he bought a couple years ago..  Would
>be fitting..
> 
> 
> 
>Dennis Cotton
> 
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