I'm so sorry for your loss, Helen.

I lost a great friend that gave me so many lasting memories. Terry and I became friends while we worked together at Wah Chang. Terry was always giving me advice that I was sure I didn't need. I can look back now and realize that I needed his advice. No short cuts, do it right and do it right the first time.
We used to have alot of fun at work, joking and carrying on.
One day he invited me to go to dinner. That's when I realized his love for music. There wasn't a song he didn't know or couldn't dance to. No matter where you were he wanted to get up and dance. Even if there wasn't a dance floor, he'd want to get up and dance. I didn't want to, but that didn't matter, I was drug out on the floor many times over the course of the years. I knew he loved to go fishing and he invited me to go. What I didn't realize was that fishing started at 4 in the morning! I made it a few times, but mostly he'd pick me up at the dock at 6:30. I was never to bring a banana in my lunch, for it was guaranteed bad fishing luck. (I wanted to test his theory, but was afraid I'd get thrown out of the boat!) I enjoyed many fishing trips on Sauvie Island, where I saw many bald eagles and wild life. Terry often corrected my fishing terminology-evidently they are fishing rods not fishing poles. I'd always respond, "Why hasn't anyone every told me that before?" I always had a good time, even if I didn't catch a fish-good fellowship. Terry would always clean my fish for me, in fact he wanted to do everything for me out on the boat; including bating my hook. I just had to sit and fish. We'd end our day arguing about him taking gas money. When I couldn't be there, Terry loved to call and share with me the size of fish he just caught. He'd rub it in that he was fishing and I was stuck working. Terry was my friend. I will miss him dearly.

How sad we are to lose our great friend, Terry. Skip goes way back to the days when Terry was a fishing guide with him on the Rogue River. He laughs often because he could always get Terry to get out of bed in the middle of the night to make sure he had tied up his boat. When he would get back, of course after finding the boat where it should be, the comment was always "God damn you, Zapffe!" As a newly wed with 2 small children, we spent the first month and half living with Terry and Dan Meredith at the Duck Club they ran. Terry made the ridiculous situation a memory of nothing but fun! Any one else and it could have been awful. Your writings are beautiful and we are sure Terry would like them. He told Skip how much he appreciated your joining him with a hairless head when he was struggling with Cancer and we are in total shock that it wasn't over and on to great new things, always a lot of fun with Terry.

Helen, Terry will be greatly missed he would come down to the store and start the morning off with Larry and Mark with a laugh for the day.(The hard hat was one we will never forget).We got to see him Friday before we left for our trip and that is how we will remember him. Our prayers are with you,he is at peace standing next to the big river in the sky. Anything thing you need, please let us know. Love Larry,Vicki and everyone at Reeder Beach

A wonderful man who made Helen
so very happy.

our Love,
Fran and Cliff