I have had a long-standing policy for not discussing my family on any of my network of blogs and portals. I respect my family’s privacy and any named individual is typically off limits.
Rules are waved in this situation.
A member of my extended family passed away in late November. My uncle Les (maternal grandmother’s generation) died of an apparent heart attack two days after Thanksgiving at 76 (my grandmother’s age too.) He wasn’t doing well health wise, but always a happy/peppy man. It was an a eerie day on that Sunday afternoon when I got a call from the lower level to come and see my mother in person. I was then told that he passed away. A part of me was surprised, another wasn’t because his visit to the hospital had occurred around Thanksgiving the last couple of years. This was one of my first experiences with second to first degree family deaths.
He was in our lives in the last twenty-six years; he was part of my younger years due to my cousin who would babysit me at her place, and would see him come home after a long days’ work and be sitting down and lounging for the late afternoon.
I’m posting this on The Museum solely because he used his telephones alot. For the longest time, he had this AT&T 2500 telephone (linked in February of 2017.) I know for lot of us who like enterprise quality sets, and this one was made after Divestiture and before AT&T offshored production, he had it for a very long time, perhaps into the early 00s. The reasoning why he used his home phones was to do some something that rhymes with wookie and change the first letter to another if you know what I mean… 😉 😉 He also had work phones like the Nextel iDEN sets, because those sets were for the default provider for contractors.
The pictures I gathered were from his funeral, these prints predate him in our family in 1990. You can see the handful of picture is a Mickey Mouse Telephone from the 1970s.
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