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...insurance manager, college teacher, television commentator and writer.
...and family man with Sally Jeanne, two big dogs and two little kitties in Crestview, Florida
I returned from Vietnam on the 12th of December, 1968. It was a year of travail - the TET offensive, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy - and a serious fall by my mother. I had returned during my tour to aid my wife in the attendance of my mother, now bedridden and soon to be in a nursing facility.
Mother died on Christmas day. She was 80 year of age plus five days. She did not seem to know me in those last moments. As an only child, I had been her pride and joy through the good days and bad. From what I knew of her life, it had been tough yet filled with some moments of happiness.
We had her cremated, and her remains were sent to the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California. The service - her sisters and brother did not attend - was held in Alameda, California.
As a result of her infirmities and age, we had moved her in with us prior to my tour to Vietnam, but her irrationality (and perhaps our children) drove her to seek independence in a small apartment. She had left her personal things, a box of mementoes, and other keepsakes in our garage. Her legacy included some personal papers, a small insurance policy with me as beneficiary, and some old newspaper clippings. The clippings were interesting and depicted early San Francisco and discussed the Guggenheims and the social prominence of the Close marriage. Society was apparently aglow with the recent matrimony of George and Carolyn Close.
And some information about their son, John Close.
Who was George and Carolyn Close? John Close? What part did they play in my mother's life? And mine?
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