My Dad's Clock
Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
This is a story about my father's clock. This is a true story as witnessed by my family and I, just after he passed away.
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When my father retired from his career he received as a retirement gift when he retired from Occidental Chemical Company, in Deer Park, Texas. He worked there for thirteen years after retiring from the United States Air Force for twenty-three years.
When my father retired from the Air Force as a medic, he found a job with Diamond Shamrock Chemical Company, in Deer Park, Texas, as a medic for the plant. They had an awesome golf course that I played about three times a week. They spent a million dollars on it every year just for maintenance, and this was in the early eighties!
After some years, Diamond Shamrock was bought by Occidental Chemical Company. They continued on with the golf course, which was great, I continued to play there until I joined the Air Force myself. My father worked there until he retired.
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Let's get back to my father clock. My father's clock was on the wall in front of his recliner for years after his long retirement, he wanted it there so he could see it everyday. My mother would take a key once a week to wind it up. She had wounded it up the morning that my father died, in a hospital about thirty minutes away, of pneumonia. He died at 11:55 in the morning.
At 11:55 the next morning, the clock stopped completely! It stopped even though it should have lasted another six days! So my mother wounded it up again. The next morning it had stopped again at exactly 11:55 in the morning! So, she wounded it up again. Again, for the third time, my father's clock stopped on exactly at 11:55 in the morning!
We took this as a sign from my father that he was still around! My mother didn't wind it up anymore.
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William J. Roop
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