My memories of you will always be true. They'll always be the ones of us fishing when I was little, of your early dinner and bedtime, of your squabbling to Grandma in the kitchen, of your smile on birthdays and Christmas mornings and all of the days in between. You were and are my Grandpa, the gentle and kind soul I have known from the beginning.
Thank you for the family you've given me, simply by meeting that feisty young Betty in a bar. I like to think you'd be pleased to know I've carried on the tradition of the Wilson women meeting their future husbands in bars. Thank you for loving my Grandma so deeply and so strongly that only a couple of months could pass by without you before her heart decided it no longer could. To witness a love like that will inspire me all of my days. Thank you for my mama and my aunt, two of my most favorite people on this planet. Thank you for loving all of us to pieces. This I will always know to be true.
Thank you and I love you.