Pappy’s Gift

A visit from beyond settles a family dispute.

BY FRED RICHARDSON • PROTEM, MO

JOE, MY DAD, AND HIS father, Pappy, had a special bond. After Pappy died, Dad claimed he often felt his father’s presence. In 1957, several years after Pappy’s death, my grandmother Bo married a man named Fred. This was funny in a way because Pappy’s living brother, for whom I was named, was also called Fred. So we had three Freds at the table when we all gathered to play cards. All seemed to be going well with the newlyweds until the new Fred’s son began to pressure his father to put his house in the son’s name. The son objected to his 79-year-old father marrying my 78-year-old grandmother. Fred assured Bo that he had written a new will to protect her in case he died before her, and the issue…

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