Wednesday, July 29, 2009
 I want to thank you all on behalf of my family for your emails and calls. My Dad died Tuesday morning July 28, 2009 as we were in the second day of our drive back to Virginia. My Dad's last hours were spent at home, and my brother and oldest daughter joined the family Monday night at his bedside. My brother spent over an hour playing tunes that my dad, a lifelong musician loved - jazz, pop, country, classical, hymns, jigs. There were moments of cognition and words of assurance. They returned to his bedside Tuesday morning. The official obituaries have not been published, so for those who may have been searching through Google, here are a portion of the details: Andrew L. McCaskey, Sr., 93, 83 Brendan Lane, Weyers Cave died on July 28, 2009 at his home. Mr. McCaskey, an Air Corps veteran of World War II, and an avid musician, was an advertising and copy writer and announcer at WSVA radio in Harrisonburg, Virginia, for most of his life. He was also employed at Dunham-Bush, Inc. as a technical writer. Mr. McCaskey produced a daily column from the age of 16, and was was published in the National Observer, the Shenandoah Herald, and from2002 to 2007 he published over 1500 columns on his blogsite http://ttopicanize.blogspot.com/
The link has also been aliased at http://tinyurl.com/andrewmccaskey A member and Elder of the Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church, he was also a longtime member of the Weyers Cave Ruritan Club, and amateur radio operator KA4WSI.
Family Visitation will be at Lindsey Funeral Home Chapel in Weyers Cave Thursday evening July 30 at 7:00PM, with Funeral services at Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church in Fort Defiance, Virginia Friday July 31 at 10:00AM. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donation to the Ruth See Foundation of Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church or the Hospice of the Shenandoah, POB 215, Fishersville, Virginia. 22939 Online condolences to the family at http://www.lindseyfuneralhomes.com
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
LITTLE THINGS You can experience of wonderful sense of accomplishment when you re-discover how much you can help others in need by doing things for their betterment. Due to illnesses in recent months, we have found it to be not easy for us to express our gratitude for the countless friends and neighbors - even few outright strangers we had not known before - have been doing things on our behalf. We continue to find it difficult to show proper gratitude and in appreciation of all in their giving or time , effort and true appreciation for such personal gifts. When we moved a year we, purposely selected a house with much less yard to keep "up" as the expression goes, while keeping the grass down is a common chore. To deal with that we kept our riding mower. Our daughter Barbara enjoys riding the machine as do our grand children when visiting. There's a small area about two-car size front of the house; a bit larger grassy area in the back and side stripe are every bit of six or feet wide. Barbara had minor surgery on her elbow and she wore a white supporting bandage on her right arm for a week or so.That was sufficient notice to cause the young man who mows the large lawn of the large Covenant Community Church to included our yard in his mowing work. He uses on of those those stand-and-ride super rigs and it takes perhaps two passes to do our hard as well as the grass covered borders of the church parking lot and joining our scrape of land borders the church's parking lot. He also returns to which overflows into the car-parking area when it gets too full. Foodstuffs and phone calls have also been abundant;notes, letters and cards, too - have been frequent and most welcome. Right now, while we are marking the second anniversary of the Katrina flood emergencies is an especially appropriate time to give some special thought and serious attention to the ways in which might allay much of the pain and suffering. Many such conditions never make the news headlines or excite political or governmental actions other than idealized talk with little genuine actions to combat the basic evils. Much is to be led and even accomplished by concerned individuals and the groups into which they so easily form to build stamina, strength and confidence. Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@comcast.net [c415wds] 8-30-07
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
JOBS As you get a few more years you must ,sometimes, "take stock" now and then and wonder it, perhaps,you may have been more successful in some other line of work. I rather doubt that many of us born during the years following Word Year I. Our years of employment in so many cases, coincided with the rigors brought about by the Great Depression many boys and girls had to accept pretty much what they could get. Prior to that, I recall parents determining, in too many cases, perhaps, that their son was going "to study law",or "be a medical doctor" or lead his generation in some industrial firm; a commercial business of some sort or active in investment or banking fields in such a manner as to provide a cushiony income for his family. Careers for girls were often concerned with the proper match making needed to make such successful family units a sure thing. Young women were, however, showing more and more interested in entering various fields of business with career ambitions in mind. Parents were, as a rule quite active in seeking the proper employment area for there sons and daughters. During the less prosperous times the parental push was to properly launch a son or daughter into lucrative fields of work at executive levels rather than a common worker status. The current condition of rising educational cost has made it necessary for many parent to extend or facilitate added support. Once the youth is in possession of a diploma, he or she often does well to land a debt-paying "job" while awaiting the dreamed of "position." Very often that becomes his or her career choice. Andrew McCaskey Sr amccsr@comcast.net [c295wds] 8-22-07
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