Grandpa ♥

Gerald Ray Walker

my grandpa passed away last monday, i meant to do a post earlier but every time i tried i'd tear up and just didn't want to think about it. My grandpa gave me my childhood nicknames, Rooney and Rufus which everyone ended up calling me and still sometimes do. 

my grandpa had a movie like childhood i loved hearing about it,

i could just play it all out in my head. he was a greaser as a teenager but better because he was the star quarter back, track star and pitcher for the baseball team. i always imagined him being just like Darry in The Outsiders lol.

he was a huge Elvis fan and served in Germany.

he was one of those old men who joked with everyone, blonde hair was purple hair, boys were girls and girls were boys. i always remember him having a root beer float at 8pm at night. 

he would also never ever let me touch his perfectly combed back hair haha.

my grandpa smoked up until a couple years ago.

they found out he had emphysema two years ago and he refused carrying any oxygen. which made his blood thicken and cause heart failure, plus triggered tons of other problems he has always dealt with.

he was basically a vegatable the last couple days of his life, not really himself so its hard to really comprehend it was him. even after i saw his body lying there. i guess i just kept expecting his chest to move again.

its been a really weird week for everyone.

but it feels like there is a big piece missing from our very tight knit family.

I Love my Grandpa very much.

(just after eye surgery last mothers day)