[AT] George Willer funeral service

[Darrell Ratliff]

I was unable to attend George's funeral yesterday but I did manage to make 
early visitation hours on Monday.  ATIS was well represented.
    As you all know, George was very active on the Farmallcub.com forum. 
The forum created an award named for George a few years ago to recognize 
those who exemplified the qualities George demonstrated by his willingness 
to help others and to share his wisdom.
    A name tag that designated an individual as a Willer Award recipient was 
created and we had one made for George.  I was unable to get George's tag to 
him prior to his passing but we had it with us and gave it to Marilyn.  She 
immediately decided that he should be wearing it so she pinned it on him.
    As I said, we were unable to stay for the services but a couple of ATIS 
members - Gary Dotson and Steve Buttram were pall bearers.  I am posting the 
following comments made by Gary:

We attended the evening calling and the service today. SteveB & I were asked 
to be pall bearers, for which we were honored to do. Darrell, the name tag 
looked great on George, thanks for doing that! Some of the comments posted, 
here on the forum, were read during the service. Thanks everyone, for the 
kind & thoughtful comments, it was a very nice addition to the service to 
hear a few of them. I was a bit surprised to hear that Marilyn and the boys 
were following the posts here, they were very proud that George has touched 
so many lives in so many positive ways. It was a very nice service, but it 
was difficult to say goodbye to such a special friend. He'll be missed by 
many!

Just thought you guys might want to know that George followed the forums and 
lists even though he was not able to actively participate.

Bigdog