Pa passed away peacefully this morning.\u00a0 I really appreciate the thoughts and concern that all of you have shown to me this week.\u00a0 It was a little tough being at work today, particularly because most of my coworkers knew why I was away and would ask how things were, went, etc.\u00a0\u00a0They would say things like “I hope you had a good trip” and “I hope things worked out”.\u00a0 I appreciate their good intentions, but it’s hard to say “he died” without making them feel bad for asking.<\/p>\n
I’m doing alright, however. I would rather be with my family right now, but that’s just not possible so I’m dealing with it other ways. Mostly I’ve been thinking a lot about the life that Pa led, and how much he meant to our family and his friends. He lived an amazing life.\u00a0 He served in a World War, raised a strong family, continual gave back to his community by volunteering, and always took care of others and never wanted to be a burden to anyone.\u00a0He was active in his church, the American Legion, volunteered as a school crossing guard, and spent hours at the local\u00a0nursing home visiting residents up until the last year or so.\u00a0 At 93, the majority of those he was visiting were younger than him!\u00a0 He was quite the man.\u00a0I hope that I can look back on a life that was fulfilling and meaningful as his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pa passed away peacefully this morning.\u00a0 I really appreciate the thoughts and concern that all of you have shown to me this week.\u00a0 It was a little tough being at work today, particularly because most of my coworkers knew why I was away and would ask how things were, went, etc.\u00a0\u00a0They would say things like … Continue reading Albert “Bud” Bowen (1915-2008)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,17],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-family","tag-hearts-and-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}