My Grandpa John

These next few pictures were all taken during the first part of March when our sweet Grandpa John Sargent passed away. One sweet story I wanted to make record of from Carrie Yanson...Aunt Tootie a few years ago was hospitalized and Grandpa was one of her doctors. He came in to check on her and he noticed her toe nails needed to be trimmed. So he got a hold of some finger nail clippers and cut them for her. She insisted that he didn't need to do that, but he made sure she knew it was no big deal and that he saw they needed to be trimmed and was more than happy to take the time to trim them for her. He then told her a story about another patient he had had in the past who was in a coma. When he went in to check on her, he noticed that she had some chin hairs that needed to be plucked. He asked the nurse in the room to find him some tweezers so he could pluck her chin. The nurse made the comment that she was in a coma and wouldn't even notice that those hairs were there. He then replied that he knew that when people came to see her and family came to visit her, the patient would not want to be seen with those chin hairs, whether she was in a coma or not. So he gladly plucked her chin hairs for her.

I wish that all of us could take this example of sweet simple kindness that Grandpa often shared with others and the world would be a better place. We love and miss Grandpa very much and am grateful to his great example and great legacy he and Grandma have made with our family.