Denver Jenkins Wathen Jr. left this world September 15, 2011 at 3:55pm the same way he came into it March 22, 1931, surrounded by family. It was not the ending any of us would have predicted, but one I think none of us would ever trade. I have learned more about my father in the
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No call went out, yet we all gathered tonight to sit vigil with my mother at the bed side of my father as he slips further away. I didn’t think I could go to the back of the house and into the spare room where he lay curled up on a hospital bed. I told
“DENVER WATHEN’S ham-sized hands cradled his reel with the sensitivity of a surgeon feeling a pulse. Then he quickly lowered the rod tip, cranked up slack line, and reared back hard enough to cross the eyes of an alligator.” Bob Brister – Houston Chronicle 1986 We were told yesterday that my father, Denver, has Bladder
Diary of a MAD * FAT * WOMAN..... 