The Journey's Beginning

For about the last month i have had the honor to assist my dear friends Paul and Heidi Morrison in taking care of Heidi's Father. Roderick P. Miller was born June 1928. He followed in his fathers footsteps in running Roderick P. Miller womans clothing store in Quincy. Rod passed on to heaven Friday night with his family beside him. This was a man i never heard complain of any pain in all the years i knew him. This is a man that already had one operation on his brain, a stomach operation on a leaking intestine that according to him never hurt. I have come to learn that Rod passed away a mere ten feet from where his father died in August 1969. You see Rod had lived in the same home since 1935. Rod and Kathy Yates Miller were married nearly 58 years that is 13 years longer than i have been alive. The point of this memo is a lesson i have learned about about the end of life. Rod got to stay at home with his family and friends. he got to see his last Masters, while we rooted hard for the old guy Fred Couples. I admired Rod, who was a rabid baseball fan, though a Cub fan. I still considered him my well to got to for retrospect on the Golden Era of baseball. We did both agree Willie Mays is the greatest of all - time. I'll miss my friend and fashion consultant, especially jealous that he is home with the Lord and i'm stuck here again to see the Cubs suffer, which i enjoy. Most of all i'm happy he got to go out like Frank Sinatra, he did it his way. I'' see you sooner or later Rod, keep a seat warm for me in the bleachers and tell my other hero Mr. Clemente his first baseman is home.