Eddy Arnold, My Grandpa and an Old Porch Swing
I wrote this entry in my journal last week: May 8, 2008 - “Eddy Arnold died this morning. I saw it on the breaking news. I immediately thought of my mother. I know how much he reminded her of grandpa.”
Though she never met Eddy Arnold or knew him on a personal level, my mom could tell what kind of man he was by watching him on television as a little girl and listening to him on the radio. “He was smooth,” she told me, “a real gentleman.” It seems she wasn’t off the mark. At Arnold’s funeral, his pastor described him as “a first-class entertainer and a first-class gentleman.” Vince Gill said he was a man who “taught you how to be kind and how to be a gentleman.”
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