missing someone.............

do you miss someone??

I am missing my Pappaw Harlow. He died in April 2002, just a month before I got married. I was so sad, I wanted him to be at my wedding so bad. What makes me really sad is that Mazzy doesn't know who he is. I really wish she could have known him. He adored kids, always making us laugh with his silly stories. He used to make all of us grandkids pile into his bedroom and sing Christmas songs while he played the harmonica, while recording us. We hated it so much, we would try to run when we saw him get that harmonica out. But right now, I wish we were there singing with him. People used to say he looked like George Burns. If he had darker rimmed glasses and a cigar in his mouth he would look just like him. We laughed at him all the time.
I can hear his laugh and smell that distinct smell. He was in his 80's when he died, I can't remember his exact age. The only gray hair he had was a little tiny bit on the hair around his ears. His hair was always dark brown. I don't know what he used in his hair, but it kept it from turning gray!! He was such a cute old man. :-)
I need to find pics of him and post them with this post.
I will never forget the day he died....we were all in the hospital room with him when he took his last breath. Mammaw was holding his hand and he was really not with us for a while. He was just slowly going and didn't acknowledge his surroundings.
Once he looked up at the ceiling and reached his hand out, with a surprised/excited look on his face as if he was reaching for someone. The room was silent, when a boy, maybe around 16 or so walked in, shut the door behind him and just stood there with his head down. It was seconds after he left the room that Pappaw took his last breath. Everyone saw him and no one knew who he was. We looked for him down the hall thinking he walked into the wrong room. But he was no where to be found. I am sure it was his Angel coming for him. It was the neatest thing I've ever experienced. I miss him so much, I think about him every day.