{"id":9365,"date":"2021-10-11T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:24:34","slug":"paying-our-respects-to-uncle-tedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/10\/11\/paying-our-respects-to-uncle-tedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying our respects to Uncle Tedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were all saddened by the passing of my Uncle Tedy, the colorful Chicago policeman\/pianist\/patriarch\/raconteur about whom the boys have heard so much over the years. If only he & Henry could’ve spent a morning together, talking over stories from a long and eventful life; they’d have gotten along famously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happily, Hen & I were able to visit Chicago to attend services for Uncle Tedy on Friday & Saturday, and of course to visit our big, extended fam. As I noted beforehand, “I’m drawing Henry an org chart for our Irish Catholic family; might be a long night”\u2014and it was! That’s a great problem to have, and it was a treat to see so many folks over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry in particular enjoyed old photos, and given that he’s long wanted a mustache of his own, he remarked, “Wow, I would love to have Uncle Tedy’s! He looks like Burt Reynolds. He’s the Bandit minus the cowboy hat!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s Tedy with his old partner, the late actor Dennis Farina:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hen certainly appreciated the Nadile family’s generosity in taking everyone out to eat at Morton’s after the funeral. Sad as the occasion was, I know Uncle Tedy would’ve been delighted to bring together so much family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday we got to have lunch with Chris & Karren Hertzig (visiting from Rhode Island) as well as Aunt Jane, Sarah, and Young John. Afterwards we drove to Lighthouse Beach on Lake Michigan, where we met up with Liz & Patrick, then dropped by the nearby Baha’i Temple and scored some great Chicago hot dogs (a priority of Hen’s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a little gallery<\/a> of images from the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were all saddened by the passing of my Uncle Tedy, the colorful Chicago policeman\/pianist\/patriarch\/raconteur about whom the boys have heard so much over the years. If only he & Henry could’ve spent a morning together, talking over stories from a long and eventful life; they’d have gotten along famously. Happily, Hen & I were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}