Mayor For An Hour

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

I visited a very friendly family.  The patient is the brother of a past Mayor of Houston, Texas.  "Jim" is what we will call him, has long passed to eternity and now his brother was our patient.  His sister was instrumental in creating our hospice to begin with and now we are privileged to take care of her brother.

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"John", our patient, served in the Army in the Second World War, and came out a hero with a silver star and a purple heart.  He then went to law school and became one of Houston's leading trial lawyers.  As you can see, the entire family was very successful and wealthy.

When I was there three of his granddaughters were present.  They were very friendly ladies and were open to a visit with Martie, my new volunteer trainee, and me.  They told me many stories about their grandfather, but one funny story that they shared with us was a visit to his brothers Mayor office.

He and his brother Jim looked very similar in appearance.  They were not twins, but did looked alike!  One day when John went to visit his brother Jim, the mayor of Houston.  Jim had to slip out for a quick meeting for about an hour and didn't have time to tell anyone.

 So John, knowing that he looked like his brother, the mayor, thought that it would be fun to sit in the mayor's chair and wave at everyone through the windows!  It worked, he waved at everyone walking by and they all smiled and waved back to him!  John sat in the mayor's chair and was mayor for an hour!

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