{"id":38875,"date":"2016-11-21T02:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=38875"},"modified":"2016-11-21T02:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:09:19","slug":"sunday-night-remembering-pat-and-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/11\/21\/sunday-night-remembering-pat-and-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – Remembering Pat and Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the 10th anniversary of the day of Sam’s accident..\u00a0. As in every year since, we came together\u00a0\u00a0today to remmeber him..<\/p>\n

as we were surrounded by our freinds.., we learned that our\u00a0very close\u00a0 friend and neigbor Pat Quinn passed away this evening. \u00a0 Pat and his wife Janet have been our next door neigbors for the past 34 years. Our kids grew up hangining out in their house… \u00a0Janet died in 2013… Pat lived alone since.. with lots of familty and freinds around him.<\/p>\n

Pat \u00a0worked his whole adult life as the butcher for Quinn’s store, the Jonesville store, The richmond Corner Market and the Richmond Market. \u00a0 He was working there until 2 weeks ago when he got sick..Before that, \u00a0I don’t ever recall him being sick a day in the \u00a0three and a half\u00a0\u00a0deades I’ve known him.<\/p>\n

You could hear him anywhere in the store with his whistling. and his stories. \u00a0 Like\u00a0the time our tenants\u00a0\u00a0tapped an Elm tree by accident to get syrup.. \u00a0he never let me forget that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Pat\u00a0\u00a0knew everyone.. and everyone loved him \u00a0.\u00a0He was an institution ! .We will all miss Pat so much.. It’s hard to\u00a0imagine our town without him.<\/p>\n

Pat and Janet have a really wonderful family… we are thinkign about them all tonight..<\/p>\n

You can read about Pat in this article on\u00a0\u00a0WCAX back\u00a0\u00a0Iin 2012 ..\u00a0http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/story\/17237821\/super-seniors-pat-quinn.. thats where I found these pics.<\/p>\n

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here he is with janet\u00a0\u00a0back in the old store.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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The news about Pat came on the 10th anniversary of Sam’saccident. Sam was down visiting freinds in Florida. Sam and his friends Eric and Parker\u00a0\u00a0where crossig a street in Florida\u00a0\u00a0when a car swerved to avoid one of Sam’s freinds. The car hit Sam .. His sould left his body instantly.. \u00a0 His body stayed strong for two more days which allowed him to donate his organs to save 4 other people<\/p>\n

Our lives changed forwever that day.. . The 10 years since\u00a0\u00a0have passed in such a strange way..today it seems both long ago and recent.. It has been so, so \u00a0 hard to be without Sam…. at the same time.. we have been surrounded by so many wonderful people and expereinces.<\/p>\n

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we market today like we have in each of the 10 years.. we began with a hike up Bolton.. aplace that Sam really loved.. Every year we climbe the rickety fire tower at the top and launch fireworks.. THis time we put soem of Sams ashes in teh shell.<\/p>\n

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always strange opeing Samsashes..\u00a0\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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we poured soem in and plugged the hole<\/p>\n

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wow.. just saw we were using Sam’s drill !\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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despite the rain down in the valley.. it was snowing like crazy up at bolton. we had a good size crowd..<\/p>\n

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the climb up was fun..by the top the snow was about 10 inches deep .. It was freezing.. so it felt good to go in the cabin and get out of the wind<\/p>\n

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max, gabe and I went on ahead to do our toast to sam on the tower. It was mid winter at the top .. gale liek winds and blowing snow.. our hands froze instantly ..<\/p>\n

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Duck !<\/p>\n

sam when up with a perfect bang !<\/p>\n

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then back to the cabin for a toast to Sam<\/p>\n

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then down the hill .. some on sleds…<\/p>\n

around 5 folks\u00a0\u00a0started showing up for potluck\u00a0\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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here are eric and parker\"\"<\/p>\n

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here are a bunch of Sam’s really close freinds.. still in our lives ..\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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many miles on these kids.. even soem of them have kids !.. \"\"<\/p>\n

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soemwhere in the middle of the party we heard about pat.. and we all lifted our glasses to him…<\/p>\n

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a little while later we passsed out RedBull.. sam’s favorite.. and toasted Sam !<\/p>\n

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we then sat down to make samstones..<\/p>\n

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these 5 have some of the ashes from Sam’s good freind Puckett who died last year.. \u00a0 we were missing Pucket very much tonight too..<\/p>\n

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it was a emotion filled day.. Rmembering Sam.. being surrounded by firends.. and hearing about Pat..<\/p>\n

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life is full .. and mixed with emotions..<\/p>\n

we gotta savor every drop<\/p>\n

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I love you and miss you my son..<\/p>\n

nite all,nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the 10th anniversary of the day of Sam’s accident..\u00a0. As in every year since, we came together\u00a0\u00a0today to remmeber him.. as we were surrounded by our freinds.., we learned that our\u00a0very close\u00a0 friend and neigbor Pat Quinn passed away this evening. \u00a0 Pat and his wife Janet have been our next door neigbors … Continue reading Sunday night – Remembering Pat and Sam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38995,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38875\/revisions\/38995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}