Motorcycle Hearse For Our Friend Wendell

December 9, 2014
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Today was the funeral for our friend Wendell.

1aIt was fun and sad.

Fun to hear favorite memories and sad to know it was our earthly goodbye to him.

1bWe first met him in the early ’70s when we began attending Lancaster Transport For Christ meetings.

He is the first person from our area to bring TFC literature to the truck stops of the northeast and beyond. (TFC began in Canada in 1951.)

2 (1)Following the visitation there was a short message, music, and many memories shared by family and friends.

I especially enjoyed when a young great-grandson shared that he will miss pap pap’s jokes. “Yep” he said, “We are going to miss him.”

As I watched his children (Kathy and Kenneth), grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, I thought, “Wendell’s sense of humor and thoughtfulness is continuing to live through them.”

2 (2)When the undertaker gave directions at the close of the service, he said that it was Wendell’s desire to have a motorcycle hearse.

2 (3)He promised Wendell that he would make that happen if it was a nice day.

2 (4)It wasn’t a nice day.

2 (5)But Mr. Foard said, “For Wendell, I am willing to ride in rain and spend a day cleaning it up.”

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2 (7)I knew there were motorcycle hearses, but I had never seen one.

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3 (1)We decided to stay for lunch, and while we waited for the family to return from the gravesite, I took some pictures of the pretty table decorations and enjoyed coffee and donuts.

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5Our lives and that of many others were forever changed because Wendell was burdened for the lives of truck drivers.

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