Thanks for taking and posting pictures Wayne. It didn't even occur to me to take a camera. It was a very nice service, and was very well attended by many of Mike's friends and family. Going from memory, the stunt and C/L community was represented by Wayne, Kieth Sandberg, Skip Spoula, Bob Furr, Bob Baldus, Bob and Elain Bookins, Mal Fawley, Jim Kreiger, Sean and Ryan Elliott, Glenn Lee, and myself. I might be forgetting some one. Many old friends from the SIG factory that we got to know and loved to see at the C/L contest. I got to introduce myself to and meet Mike Stott. Hazel Sig was there and looking very nice, although she was sporting a nasty black eye! I said hello to her and got a "Hazel Hug" from her and she pointed it out, so I asked her who caught her with a right cross, and she related that she had taken a spill off her electric wheel chair going off a curb. " I just couldn't get the thing going fast enough!" she said! Typical Hazel! I said that was because it was electric, she should at least get something gas powered and with a tuned pipe! She's 90 something and still sharp as a tack and it was a pleasure talking to her again. If you have never met and talked to Hazel Sig, you have really missed something. A few of us gathered around a table for some exchanges of memories and such for about an hour, and then it was time to head back home. I've been reflecting on the trip and the reason for it since I got home. If we do get to go back to Montezuma and fly control line models again, it just won't be the same with out Mike Gretz. But his legacy will live on in his designs, writings and photos.
We'll miss you but never forget you Gretzy.
Dan McEntee
Topic: Mike Gretz Memorial (Read 1167 times)
