Paul G Avery

on Mar 29 in In Memory

Paul G Avery had a major impact on my life.  In 1966 i was stationed in VP-23 at N.A.S. Brunswick, Maine. and in the summer a friend of mine came to me and asked if i would be interested in a blind date.  I of course said yes, and i met Mr Avery’s daughter. after the date we saw each other a few times but I really got to know her father, Mr Avery. That year i wound up at their lake front campsite on Damarisocitta, Maine.  Camping with the family on weekends and learning to fish the lake.  He didn’t have a boat but we use to fish from the dock. by the end of the season i was getting ready to go on deployment until May so i had a chance to get an aluminum boat and I picked it up and gave it to Mr Avery for the lake.  Mr and Mrs Avery Had a big effect on my life and he was a good man. I can still see him laughing at me when one night when i had gotten stopped in Brunswick by the pd and the police said that i hadn’t registered my car and they towed it. i was so mad, because i thought that i had registered it. He was on duty at bath pd and he was laughing so hard as i walked in and he said let me see the registration.  the next day he took me up to get it registered. and he got the guy he knew who had towed my car to give it back to me.

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Robert G. Schippers (Bob)

on Mar 21 in In Memory

In 1975  while being transferred to N.A.S. Willow Grove, our family moved into Mt Laurel, New Jersey and we lived on Masonville Rd.  Three house up the street Lived Bob And Sam Schippers.  They were about the same ge as Kathy and and we became good friends. They had a son and daughter also That would be Kyle and Kegan.  Our families became very close and we did a lot of things together.  Bob was a New Jersey State Trooper. and they had bought this old house on the road and it was an ongoing project, but the one thing bob taught me was the way he did things.  He bought the best so it would last a lifetime.  sometime when i am confronted with buying the cheaper version Bob comes to mine and i usually make the right decision.  It happened yesterday when i was looking at a jacket for sale, i was looking at one that was cheaper but not exactly what i wanted. i could almost hear bob saying “you know that is not the one you want, so why get it”. It is funny, the things you remember about someone.  I was on the Masonville Rescue squad for a while and we would get called out in the middle of the night to the turnpike for a rescue and there would be Bob. He told me one time ” Hi neighbor, couldn’t let you sleep through the night if i was awake”. If you met Bob you wouldn’t think he had a sense of humor , but he did.  Bob and i where Chimney Sweeps together and we would spend a lot of Saturdays cleaning chimneys.  We wore the top hats and tails.  Sam passed earl, but Bob and i always remained in touch. I talked to him just 24 hours before he Passed.

Bob was a good and honest man. What more can you say than that. RIP my friend and i will think of you often.