Chester, we just went by the house you rented to us in PB. We loved you and always enjoyed your annual Christmas cards. You enjoyed our dog Sam. You always took good care of us. RIP Veteran 

Everyone should be so lucky as to have an Uncle Chester in their lives.  I loved playing with the gifts he sent me from exotic locales when I was little like Spanish dolls wearing mantillas or a marionette from Mexico.  The stories of his travels probably helped fuel my own love of travel and I enjoyed telling him when I had a trip planned so, I could hear about his own experiences there.  I visited him in San Diego for the first time with my grandfather but kept going back on my own, feeling proud of myself for being able to take him out to lunch or dinner.  The first piece of art that I purchased, he helped me haggle for in Tijuana and then he took me for a Caesar salad at the restaurant that claimed to have invented it.  It hangs in my apt to this day.  I don’t think that I purchased toothpaste or hand lotion for the first five or so years that I lived on my own due to his “buy one, get one free” care packages.  Whether typed or handwritten in his beautiful penmanship, I loved getting his cards and letters.  I’m so glad that I thought to save several.  I don’t know how many coworkers over the years shared in the bounty of the coupons he’d send with the expiration dates circled.  Am I the only one that imagined him discussing double coupon days at Ralph’s with Raquel Welch at a cocktail party at Ray’s house?  I’m grateful for the year that I lived in Long Beach as it meant that I was able to visit with him several times.  Those were some of our best visits as I was old enough then to think to ask him questions about his youth.  Turned out that he’d stayed summers with extended family in Brooklyn on the same block where one of my friends lived.  A few years ago, I was working on a project in Scranton and looked forward to telling him about it.  I had to laugh when he told me that he went there once but didn’t care for it so had never gone back.  I really hope that I can be to my godson and nephews even an nth of what Uncle Chester was to me.

To the man who had no regrets and lived his life the way he wanted to.  Dear Uncle Chester,  Thank you for the many wonderful memories and time spent together in San Diego.  And thank you for sharing your beautiful heart and wisdom with us all these years.  We will miss you always.....Jim and Karen Tucker

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17 mai 1927 – 28 décembre 2020

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