A Marriage and A Death

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Yesterday my brother Kevin got married, i was the best man. i was also the legal witness to the paperwork. However, during the Reception my mom gets a call from my cousin Brandon that my Uncle Robert is heading to the Emergency Room after a seizure and that he wasn't breathing but they had him on a machine. i tried my best to comfort my mom and grandma saying he is too stubborn to die. barely 20 minutes later, my Aunt Lyn calls my mom to tell us Uncle Robert The Great(he schooled us in that name since we were babies) was dead. Uncle Robert was a great man perhaps one of the greatest men i ever knew, he was a loving family man who protected his kith and kin fiercely. He was a True Texan through and through, even when he lived in California before he actually moved to Texas. In the eyes of me and my kin, Uncle Robert was always invincible, always so strong, and confident in everything he did. The world will definitely be a different place with him gone, i mean even in Texas he was always there for us and would drive out here to California in his big Ford-250 with the long horn horns attached to the roof of his truck in an instant if we needed him. He came to visit several times a year. He will be greatly missed and was well loved by everyone who knew him, he was a man more than worthy of the respect and admiration he received. he was a fair businessman and a hard worker, too hard of a worker if you ask my grandma, she reckons he worked himself to death in the end.

i had to suck it up last night so i, as best man, could give my brother the toast he deserves and i think i did pretty well given the circumstances.

my brothers new wife Jennifer led a prayer for Uncle Robert when he was in the ambulance, Uncle Robert was one of the biggest atheists i know he would have hated to be prayed to

so we are leaving either today or tomorrow for Texas for the memorial service

i just got back from Texas a few hours ago and it was a heart attack and high blood pressure that killed my Uncle Robert

the funeral was at The Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home

http://www.funeralplan.com/samhoustonme ... ?id=233153

in the obituary it says "sister Josephine Joanne Black of California" thats my mom

my mind still hasn't fully processed what happened, i still keep wishing its just a bad dream

my Uncle Robert was one of a kind, he used to freehand El Capitan, thats a 2 day climb easily, he used to p*** off bears and they would chase him up trees, 3 of his favorite things to do was basketball, dancing(he used to compete in dancing with his last wife 20 years ago), and dumpster diving he once took my mom dumpster diving and he asked a homeless person "any good pickins?" lol his buddy Larry(also mentioned in obituary) once bought him a pig for $20, they named him Hammy EVERYONE loved his pig, Hammy lived in a Dogloo(igloo for dogs) that he found while dumpster diving lol

That's a lot to handle in one day. I hope that you recover from all of this soon.

its not easy i miss him so much, i was just reading the condolensces page on the website i linked to and started crying. me and my mom were talking about him the other day and i had to hug her for awhile while she cried. my mom has some old voicemails of him so she will always remember his voice.

i'm so sorry to hear of the death in your family. and on such an important day..... that must have been extremely stressful.

thank you for your sympathies, it was and still is very stressful