Been a bad month on the family tree. He lost his wife a month ago and now the last of the Worrall generation of my fathers brothers and sisters has passed.
I'm the last of the males from any of them, all the others have passed. I have 2 sons, and one has 2 boys so the name should carry on for awhile. Walt, the one the article pictured here was a great guy. Solid family man, just a great guy to be around. He never talked much about the war so I never knew he was with Patton. I knew he was in a tank and had gotten injured from shrapnel. That caused him problems throughout his life but he never talk much about it. His daughter Kathy and I remained close friends over the years and talk weekly via the internet. They were a big family of kids, parents all died young and they pretty much raised themselves on the family farm. I went to visit him about 2 weeks ago and took him some pictures I had been restoring of his parents who he barley knew as he was very young, perhaps 4 or 5 years old. So his daughter and I spent time and made them up and framed them for him. Thats pretty much what he spent his time talking about the last 2 weeks.... I never knew he didn't have a picture of them until about 3 weeks ago... I did go ahead and make copyies of them all, a full set for him and his daughter and myself to pass on to my kids. Keeps reminding me of the Cats in the Cradle song... I wish I could have done this way earlier in his life... I will miss him. Funny, I still have a shirt he bought me about 55 years ago. He just did it because I had mentioned about going to my first dance with this young lady at a boy scout event. I still have that shirt hanging in the closet... Simple thing but it met a lot to me.
Anyhow, another one of our greatest generation has passed. Soon there will be none from the age group. Lets hope this new generation don't loose site of what the older ones were trying to do and did quite well. I know my life was enriched by their efforts. Many thanks to all military folks, past and present.
George-CT
I'm the last of the males from any of them, all the others have passed. I have 2 sons, and one has 2 boys so the name should carry on for awhile. Walt, the one the article pictured here was a great guy. Solid family man, just a great guy to be around. He never talked much about the war so I never knew he was with Patton. I knew he was in a tank and had gotten injured from shrapnel. That caused him problems throughout his life but he never talk much about it. His daughter Kathy and I remained close friends over the years and talk weekly via the internet. They were a big family of kids, parents all died young and they pretty much raised themselves on the family farm. I went to visit him about 2 weeks ago and took him some pictures I had been restoring of his parents who he barley knew as he was very young, perhaps 4 or 5 years old. So his daughter and I spent time and made them up and framed them for him. Thats pretty much what he spent his time talking about the last 2 weeks.... I never knew he didn't have a picture of them until about 3 weeks ago... I did go ahead and make copyies of them all, a full set for him and his daughter and myself to pass on to my kids. Keeps reminding me of the Cats in the Cradle song... I wish I could have done this way earlier in his life... I will miss him. Funny, I still have a shirt he bought me about 55 years ago. He just did it because I had mentioned about going to my first dance with this young lady at a boy scout event. I still have that shirt hanging in the closet... Simple thing but it met a lot to me.
Anyhow, another one of our greatest generation has passed. Soon there will be none from the age group. Lets hope this new generation don't loose site of what the older ones were trying to do and did quite well. I know my life was enriched by their efforts. Many thanks to all military folks, past and present.
George-CT
