The services for Dale Sr.'s Uncle Ted, on January 7th, were beautiful, meaningful, and very well-attended. I was so pleased that both Dale Jr. and Brian Lawson and Marie could attend.
There was much about Ted Lewis' life and accomplishments that I had not known.
I could see how it helped Donna that they lived in the retirement home area of Apache Junction where they lived (and she still does). There is are people there who regularly help with any function, and Ted and Donna were among those people. When I went to use the rest room at the reception at the clubhouse, I saw a group of older people sitting in the room adjoining the main clubhouse function room. I asked them if they were the ones helping Donna with the reception, and they said, "That's what we do." "He always helped us." Things like that.
I could see how living in a place like that would make things easier at a time like this. It made me understand something about that sort of place that I hadn't thought about before.
Regular houses on lots, city roads, no fence around the development, but they were all built at the same time and they have a clubhouse, by-laws, etc. (Whatever by-laws are.)
Someone said that Uncle Ted used to ride around that place in his golf-cart, which he had attached fancy tail-pipes...
After the eulogy, there were really interesting tributes given by Ted's son Jeff and his two sons by his first marriage. There was much about his life that I didn't know. Donna had kept incredibly detailed scrapbooks, including newspaper clippings of when Ted, as Pinal Co. Sheriff, apprehended a fugitive criminal for whom there was a state-wide chase.
There was also a photo of Donna with some other Democratic Club officers! Ted apparently ran as a Democrat when he ran for sheriff.
Ted's son Eugene
Jean's son Joe and his lady. They were high school sweethearts who were reunited in recent years.
Lawson, Marie, Dale Jr. and Dale Sr. looking at the scrapbooks
Dale Sr. and I
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