The paucity of posts on this blog in the past couple months relate directly to Pat's illness:
At 1:55 p.m. April 9 local
raconteur and wit-writ-large Patrick J. Kurt, 72, (aka Walking Eagle) of No. 23
Claddagh Court, Cascade joined his parents, aunts, uncles, sister Joyce, brother
Jim, friend Joe Gehl, fellow spinner Mike Ressler and the host of humanity in the
halls of eternity.
Peacefully as you please on a rainy
Thursday.
Officially diagnosed with liver
cancer after the first of the year, Pat courageously chose no 2nd, 3rd
or Mayo opinions, no Caribbean cruises, but to savor the days he had left at
home.
Days enlivened by a parade of
Cascaders and out-of-towners, bearing cookies, cakes, pies, tidbits and tales.
Baked goods he could not by then digest, but nevertheless loved excessively,
took as evidence, and about which he was heard to observe in his inimitable
fashion, “Dying is not half-bad! Look at
all this stuff!!”
None of Pat’s exes lived in Texas,
rather all in Salt Lake City, along with two daughters Tonya (Kim) Mosier and
Terri (Wade) Tanner granddaughters Rachel Mosier, Courtney and Sydney Tanner. After a short stint in Clinton and Moline as a
railroad worker, he spent the shank of his iron-working career a staunch member
of the Boilermakers Local #182, and briefly served as Union steward. Returning
to his roots here June 2006.
An avid golfer, he counted 3 holes
in 1 as his some of his finest moments.
He will be sorely missed by a wide
circle of folks, some who didn’t even know his name because he had perfected a uniquely
self-designed and delineated art: making a total stranger laugh within two
minutes of sauntering up to him or her with some nonsense.
Children as well as adults.
Most acutely missed by the other
member of the Sunday-Morning-Bloody-Mary-Uncle-Francis-Atheist-Society, S.
Keyron, which met weekly guzzle and chortle over the ironies of the world
locally and at large.
Pat Kurt’s cremains were interred at Cascade Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Sat. April 11, after which an open house to celebrate his life and levity was held in the gathering room of Claddagh Court.
Pat Kurt’s cremains were interred at Cascade Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Sat. April 11, after which an open house to celebrate his life and levity was held in the gathering room of Claddagh Court.
Memorial contributions can be made
to the Cascade “Spy” Project or your local drinking society. Follow the Drinkin
Gourd!
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