Papa
Today my grandfather died. Everyone called him Bill, I called him Papa. It's French for dad. I've always called him that. William Giguere is a father to three great people. One of whom is my mom. My grandmother survives him and I have called her Pumpkin ever since I was a child. I can't stand seeing my mom and Pumpkin cry.
Those of you who know me know that I'm passionate about gadgets and how things work. My earliest gadget related memory was my grandfather explaining how a power line transformer works. He showed me a volt meter and explained electricity. I was a child so the explanation was obviously dumbed down a little so I could understand it. He used to work for Dover repairing elevators and I remember him showing me the top of an elevator once. I really think that contributed a great deal to my personality and ignited a thirst for knowledge about how the world works around me.
Some of the things I will remember always:
Summers in the pool
His workbench in the house on Featherstone
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc tape
Chinese food dinners growing up
The plastic Santa suit
Cold mugs of beer when he visited
Him mowing the lawn with the green Lawnboy
His contributions to my pin collection
His perpetual smile
The ease with which he laughed
The jokes
Papa you will be sorely missed by us all.
Those of you who know me know that I'm passionate about gadgets and how things work. My earliest gadget related memory was my grandfather explaining how a power line transformer works. He showed me a volt meter and explained electricity. I was a child so the explanation was obviously dumbed down a little so I could understand it. He used to work for Dover repairing elevators and I remember him showing me the top of an elevator once. I really think that contributed a great deal to my personality and ignited a thirst for knowledge about how the world works around me.
Some of the things I will remember always:
Summers in the pool
His workbench in the house on Featherstone
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc tape
Chinese food dinners growing up
The plastic Santa suit
Cold mugs of beer when he visited
Him mowing the lawn with the green Lawnboy
His contributions to my pin collection
His perpetual smile
The ease with which he laughed
The jokes
Papa you will be sorely missed by us all.
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