- REVISED: October, 2013
JOE’S YOUNG GREAT GRANDSON JAMES sent Joe a letter back in March addressed to Grandpa Meow. Joe taught James to do the cat sounds. One would phone the other and go “MeooooooooooooooOOOOOOOW!”
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Joe and Virginia married on the Queen Mary in their wedding chapel June 1, 1975.
The only guests were Rachel age 10 and Mark age 5. Matthew the oldest was at Camp Tanda Bible camp (his choice) and Eve was in Whittier Hospital from stepping on a dead bee (not her choice). We didn’t have money for other guests.
On the way home from the wedding we had a flat tire in Joe’s recently purchased old station wagon… we looked around and there was a service station across the street from us. Problem solved.
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Joe’s hospital nurse was Virginia like his wife Virginia, but the nurse didn’t know it. She said he kept yelling, “Virginia.” She was surprised each time he knew her name.
Finally, he yelled out, “Virginia, brush my teeth!” She brushed his teeth ********** JOE’S 2012 JOKE OF THE YEAR:
DOCTOR: I have good news and I have bad news. PATIENT: What is the bad news? DOCTOR: The bad news: you have Alzheimers. The good news is you can go home and forget about it.
********** How do Texans communicate?
They Tex each other.
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Joe normally was in so much pain his last year, eating was just something to do. ON NEW YEAR’S DAY 2013, JOE WOKE ME UP with the sweetest of words: “I’m hungry. I want a waffle and I want it now.” So I gave him one of his daughter Lisa’s famous blueberry waffles, his morning shake, half a banana and his meds.
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Joe Richard Salazar
September 13, 1933 – October 1, 2013.
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