[AT] Sad News from Grant Brians in California

[Grant Brians]

Spencer's comment and others are on target. Just because we miss my 
father and will continue to do so, that does not mean that it was not 
his time - it was. On the Tractor front, one of his last lucid comments 
was about how proud he was of my youngest son to be driving the little 
Farmall tractor that we got at the Tulare show auction and how he knew 
that was just part of the process of his growing up!
      I have been talking to my father's friends and breaking the news 
of his death to them. Quite a process. Universally they have good things 
to say about him and are saying how much they will miss him. There sure 
is a lot of work associated with a person dying.... I need to get back 
to work so I can go to church soon, I am thankful that church and church 
friends are a fact in my life as they do help recharge me.
            Grant Brians

On 5/14/2016 7:17 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> Sounds like an amazing life!
>
> I know you were proud of him and enjoyed your time with him. My condolences for you and your family as you grieve his passing.  A friend once told me, when my grandfather died,  it is no tragedy when an old man dies. I remember thinking when my friend told me that he must not have ever had an old man in his life die.
>
> But now that the separation of time has given me a chance to reconsider, I now realize what he meant.  He meant that the relay race of life simply passed the baton to us.  It is what nature intended.  So celebrate your father's contribution to mankind and his love. And look forward to a future where you can teach all of his offspring the lessons he imparted to you.
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> Best wishes to you and your family and you hug, cry, laugh and love over the next several months and years.
>
> Spencer Yost
>
>> On May 13, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com> wrote:
>>
>> All, I have to report some sad news. I have been off the list for a bit
>> because I have been really busy, but I am just now reporting to you
>> fellows that my father Bob Brians died on Tuesday at age 86. I know that
>> several of you had the opportunity to meet him here at our ranch. I
>> attach the link to the obituary that I have posted on the Mortuary website.
>>       I am glad that I have been able to be with my parents through his
>> decline and my mother and I were with him when he went on to the other
>> side.... He did die without pain and he slipped away basically over a
>> four day time period.
>>                Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer
>>
>> http://grunnagle.com/tribute/details/60/Robert-Brians/obituary.html#tribute-start
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