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Today’s column is the column I’ve been content to “keep on the backburner” for more than two decades, since I began penning this column in April 2002,

It is with heartbroken sadness I report the death of my beloved father Chester, who passed away at age 96 in the morning hours last Wednesday, Dec. 11 at our family’s farm in window view of the landscape he loved so much.

In recent weeks, including our family’s Thanksgiving dinner gathering, Mom and my older brothers and sisters stayed close to Dad and welcomed his homecoming after three weeks away at rehab for therapy following his successful heart valve replacement over the summer at University of Chicago on my 55th birthday on Aug. 13.

Dad’s struggle with walking following his summer surger

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