Louis Amoruso
Just a brief word about the passing of Dick Hargreaves:
Dick was probably one on my longest time friends. He was quiet but if you looked closely, he often had a little twinkle in his eye. The jokes that he and I shared often went right past our wives and others who might have been with us. He and I would just smile and keep on talking.
He and his wife, Beth, were supposed to be getting together this coming Friday (9/10). We had picked the day, but not the time and venue. NOw it has been picked for us. There will be a wake that night from 4-7 PM at the Shernan-Jackson Funeral home (55 N. Main St.) in Mansfield. No other public service will be held.
It is fitting that Dick would not want to make a big thing of his passing.
There was no other classmate who was more like me (or was like). He will not be able to smile, or wink, ar say something humorous almost under his breath. His sudden passing, with only his wife nearby, seems to be poetic justice. Their marriage was long andloving.
He told me when he called me on my birthday (thanks to this web site) that we should get together, and we will. Maybe not the way we had intended, but still, one last time. I think that I probably knew Doug Barbour and Phil Manley longer, but none was a closer friend. When he died, he probably still had the big, peach bow tie that he had to wear as a member of my wedding party many years ago; I know he still had it when we celebrated our 25th anniversary.
I probably won't enjoy seeing him so much this time, but if it possible, we might just get a chance to see each other in the not-so-longer anymore future.
Lou Amoruso
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