End of an ERA

Good afternoon Friends & Family.  The other day something bad happened.  The last remaining Original Umphred Passed away My DAD.  He was the last of the Original Brothers.  Born in 1936 he lived to see a lot of history from WWII to Vietnam to the Falling of the Berlin Wall to the Sports history he also witnessed from the Miracle on Ice the 1980 Olympic Hockey team to the 1980 Phillies. To the Challenger disaster.  He had 3 boys who were and our very different. Mark, Michael, John. He was a printer by trade and worked at Offset Paperback in Dallas Pa. He came from a family of Printers.  He found the game of Golf midlife and enjoyed it very much even got himself a few Hole in one’s to his credit. He got pretty good at it I believe that the best he ever shot was a 78 he belonged to the Wyoming Valley County Club for a very long time. He Married my Mother in 1962 and has spent the last 64 years with her.  He was

An Amazing Father getting us boys involved in everything from cubscouts to Little League to Mini Football to basketball.  To taking us on all kinds of vacations to seeing our first BIG League games in MLB, To the NBA, to the NHL. NFL, and Let’s not forget Disney World. My DAD also was a great Driver of cars he owned a few different kinds over many years of his life.  He taught all of us how to drive.  It wasn’t always easy to get along with him. But for the most part I wouldn’t trade him for anyone else. In closing Please say a little prayer for him and his Amazing  BROTHERS.

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