Article June 22, 2009 Issue

FOREVER FATHERED

BY AMY RICHMOND

My dad passed on earlier this year. It was unexpected, and to be honest, a shock to me.

Soon after, I was sorting through some of my papers, and I found a special card my daughter had just bought to give to Dad this Father's Day. It had a little silver charm of a grandfather clock on it. We were excited when we found it in the store because as a kid, Dad collected and repaired clocks.

Family members and neighbors brought their clocks to Tommy Jones to be fixed. And throughout the years he took good care of the grandfather clock that had come from his own grandfather—a clock that's now mine. It made me feel bad that my dad would never see this card and that I wouldn't be celebrating Father's Day with him.