Ed Kokernak<\/span><\/b> I miss you Grandpa!<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m glad I was able to see you in February. I always enjoy seeing you and out phone calls. When I was little, you always made me laugh when we\u2019d pretend to talk like frogs and say \u201cribbit\u201d to each other.<\/span><\/p>\n I always enjoyed it when we\u2019d watch movies together on the VCR. I remember\u00a0Disney\u2019s The Fox and the Hound<\/i>\u00a0being Your homemade meatloaf recipe was one of my favorite things to eat when I was at your house.<\/span><\/p>\n You always made me smile, I miss you.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ll miss our phone calls and talking to you all the time. I saved your\u00a0voicemail greeting<\/a>\u00a0so I can still hear your voice. I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/p> ~Matthew<\/span><\/p>\n Saturday April 8, 2017 @ 8:10 PM, Eastern.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Loving Memory Ed Kokernak (February 19, 1932 \u2013 March 30, 2017) I miss you Grandpa! I\u2019m glad I was able to see you in February. I always enjoy seeing you and out phone calls. I\u2019m sad you are no longer here with me. I know you\u2019re in Heaven with\u00a0Grandma\u00a0and I know you\u2019ve missed her… Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(February 19, 1932 \u2013 March 30, 2017)<\/i><\/p>\n![\"Spending](\"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/photogallery\/Pics2\/Matthew_GrandpaEd_Umbrellas.jpg\")
![\"This](\"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/Blog\/2017\/4\/8\/GrandpaEd_Matthew_February2017.jpg\")
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\nI\u2019m sad you are no longer here with me. I know you\u2019re in Heaven with\u00a0Grandma<\/a>\u00a0and I know
\nyou\u2019ve missed her a lot the past few years. I just want you to know how much you mean to me.<\/span><\/p>\n
\none of our favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019ll never be the same as talking to you, but it makes me happy to hear your voice and remember all the good
\ntimes we had together.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n