When I was growing up my dad was like a superhero. He could do anything! He gained a lot of his super hero skills as he served in the Army for 20 years. But his best super hero skill, he was born with: loving his family. He had the best family. He was born in small town Utah in the Uintah basin. His mom, Lena, and his dad, Wilbur, raised him to be honest and hardworking. He had three sisters: Florence (Ron), Linda, and Thaila. And he had one brother, his "partner in crime", Nolan (Frieda). He had two children: me, Wanda (Dan), and my brother, Ronnie (Donna). He also had six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He had the opportunity to briefly meet one of his great grandchildren. Before joining the Army, he attended Duchesne High School and taught Sunday school to the youth (including his siblings) in the Strawberry Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He met my mom, Caroline at a baseball game in high school. She thought he was handsome and outgoing; he thought she was tiny and cute. They were married for 40 years before my mom passed away. Dad took us on a lot of adventures. He loved fishing and camping and stopping by those brown roadside historical markers. I loved my dad. After getting married and moving away, I could count on his phone call every Saturday at 9 am for decades. Unfortunately, over the past several long years his phone calls came less and less often. Ever so often he could sneak in a call and we would laugh and reminisce about the "good old days". He would ask about his favorite people: his grand kids. I miss him terribly knowing he is gone, but I have missed him the past few years anyway.

Miss you, Pops. Thankfully, I know you are finally at peace and this separation is only temporary and nothing can keep us apart.

Family and friends will be invited this spring to have a memorial for he and visit him and my mother's grave site and share stories and love for him. He will also receive a full honors military service.

He was a pleasure to care for and I’m very glad I got to know him and Ruth. My condolences. 

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Ronald Dick Gines

3 November, 1939 – 3 December, 2020

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