Sunday, August 26, 2018
I met Mr.Squires when I worked at Home Depot in Los Angeles. He appeared at my desk with a detailed floor plan he had painstakingly measured of his daughter, “Livie”’s kitchen. He told me he was visiting from New Jersey on a vacation. I explained to him my father, too, was a native of Jersey and to say the least, we hit it off like a house on fire. Mr. Squires’ devotion to his daughter and his kitchen plan reminded me so much of my father. I lost my dad, business executive, builder, semi-pro baseball player and all around good guy to Alzheimer’s, in 2004.
In the insuing month’s, Livia and I eventually finished the plans for her kitchen, with me always sending greetings cemented by those enjoyable first meetings with Mr . Squires. I remain friends with Livia knowing that she too, had the heartbreak of watching her Hero diminished by the ravages of the same disease that claimed my dad. RIP Mr. Squires...Godspeed...to a good man and loving Dad til the end.
