update

[Matt Neumann]

Dad is deteriorating fairly fast.  He is in palatable care.  I think that is the correct term.  I had planned on going to Indy not this Sat but next but my plans have changed and will now be going this weekend.  On the side, and this might sound a little funny, but I plan on bringing my computer along and checking off what has and has not been sold.  It will give me something to do beside just wait.  So I will contact those who asked first for their stuff and verify that they got it.  Obviously shipping will be delayed a bit.

[john e. holliday]

Remember take care of family first.

[John Park]

Dad is deteriorating fairly fast.  He is in palatable care.  I think that is the correct term.  I had planned on going to Indy not this Sat but next but my plans have changed and will now be going this weekend.  On the side, and this might sound a little funny, but I plan on bringing my computer along and checking off what has and has not been sold.  It will give me something to do beside just wait.  So I will contact those who asked first for their stuff and verify that they got it.  Obviously shipping will be delayed a bit.

It's 'palliative': just means making someone as comfortable as possible.  That's how it was with my own father, many years ago.  You have my sympathy.

[Dennis Toth]

Our thoughts and prayers are with him and your family.

DennisT

[Harold Brewer]

So sorry Matt.  My prayers are with you and your family.

Best regards,

Harold Brewer

[Bob Hunt]

Matt called me the other day with the initial news about Len having some health issues . This recent news is just devastating. Our prayers are with Len and his family daily.

Len spent his life in service to the Lord as a Lutheran minister, so his eternal resting place is pretty well assured. But all of us will miss him here when his time comes.

I need to pass on one of my favorite stories about Len. In 1980 at the Wilmington Nats I was just not happy with my performance leading up to the competition. Len sensed this I think and invited me to lunch with is family. Matt was just a tyke at the time... Len listened intently to my grousing for a while, and then very calmly gave me the following piece of information that has stuck with me ever since. He said, "Bob, do your possible best, not the best possible." Thanks, Len; you changed my life that day.

Bob Hunt