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A sad and dismal day. Sit in your easy chair, unfold your lonesome blanket, cover your legs and lap to better remember who and how. It's not the time to take a nap.
The best things usually come in small packages; humor, kindness, generosity, interest and caring, to name a few. Shorty was a very big man in a small package.
During World War II, he and his wife Laura manned a lookout in Tiller, watching for enemy planes and forest fires, and now he was taken from his life's companion when she needed him the most.
Shot and killed. That is final, as final as final can be. The end! Who, where, why, how, facts. Who: Shorty Hartley. Where: near Glendale, Oregon. Why: never a good reason why. How: shotgun — gut shot. Facts: Some we will know, some we'll never know — maybe for the better.
Said some pleasant things about the victim. Now let's talk about the shooter — better if the kids and young people leave the room. Now to begin — uh, maybe send the dogs out of the room, too.
Keith McGinnis
Canyonville
The best things usually come in small packages; humor, kindness, generosity, interest and caring, to name a few. Shorty was a very big man in a small package.
During World War II, he and his wife Laura manned a lookout in Tiller, watching for enemy planes and forest fires, and now he was taken from his life's companion when she needed him the most.
Shot and killed. That is final, as final as final can be. The end! Who, where, why, how, facts. Who: Shorty Hartley. Where: near Glendale, Oregon. Why: never a good reason why. How: shotgun — gut shot. Facts: Some we will know, some we'll never know — maybe for the better.
Said some pleasant things about the victim. Now let's talk about the shooter — better if the kids and young people leave the room. Now to begin — uh, maybe send the dogs out of the room, too.
Keith McGinnis
Canyonville
