Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/08/15
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1 Bomber sent stuff and Memorial INFO today:
David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Adele PAULSEN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert LOVE ('66)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: A really good friend

Yes, I know, I have consistently praised my friends, I've often
made a point of saying I am proud of, grateful for and blessed
with the best friends a person could have. That goes for all my
friends including those I've met only recently... some of whom
I've not even met face to face. I have a friend that I only
"met" 25 years ago. The first time I met him he asked me to take
a picture of him with Terry DAVIS ('65). Now he is not a guy I
would have met back in my school days. I would have avoided him.
It was my way to avoid some people like the plague. I did not
want them to be my friends and I believed they had nothing to
offer me. From the first time I met this guy, I have looked
forward to seeing him again. We have attended so many functions
"together" I can't count them. He has shown our Bomber members
more caring than even we show ourselves sometimes. Maybe because
he is a fellow Bomber, but I think it goes deeper than that for
him. He can remember kids my age and older by their first names
and makes a point of greeting everyone with a huge smile. I gave
him a hug for the first time a few days ago and admonished him
to be careful driving home. He was as much at home at the '65er
reunion as anyone and as welcome an attendee as any. Everyone
was glad to see him and he made the event even more special. I
just wanted to take a minute to acknowledge him today and let
him know what an important part of my life he is. Now I hafta
admit, that for a few years of my life I was one of "them". I
came to know the love and dedication some of them have for "us".
Thank you, Rex DAVIS ('49) for being so very special to me and
to all other Bombers!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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not a memorial - only INFO today

>>Emma LARSEN Kleinknecht ('36-RIP) 

from the Mueller's  website:
    Viewing will be held Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 
5pm to 8pm, at Mueller's Tri-Cities Funeral Home, 14th and 
Union Street, Kennewick. 
     Funeral services will be 2pm on Thursday, September 10,
2015, at the Kennewick First Lutheran Church, 418 North Yelm, 
Kennewick, WA 99336.
     Graveside service will follow at Riverview Heights 
Cemetery, Kennewick.
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