Walter "Wally" Borowy

Graduated from Assumption High School with Wally in 72'. Please accept my sincere condolences on his passing. Even though I have not seen Wally since high school, you never forget a fellow Pioneer.

Words are never enough. When MY grand-father, John, died [1875-1959]. It hardly said anything... my father, and he, weren't very close. To be blunt, my dad---no saint himself---was irritated that his father spent most of his time at the, next-door, at "The Maplewood Tavern". I recall [he died when I was almost 10], he knocked at our [unanswered] door all the time. This upset me greatly, because I never knew my middle-name-sake very well.
I have a laminated copy of HIS obit. It didn't say much. After research, I would have added: "... John McCluskey was a 100%-disabled Spanish-American War [1898] veteran. Co-founder of the local, VFW 1699 [ group established 1898] Post on Upper Cahokia Road. He was preceded, in death, by his commanding officer, Lt.Col Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of The United States (1901-1909); his wife, the mother of his children, Pina, nee Thompson, 1865-1931...."
At HIS funeral, in Mount Vernon, IL., my dad told me to reach over the casket and kiss his grandfather good-bye. I told Dad to did it, "I never even kissed him HELLO" was my angry reply.
Show your family you love them WHILE they are ALIVE.
Enough said.

Sorry about the typos.
Like our pasts, too late;
cannot edit it now...