Monday, December 14, 2015
Don and I talked at the end of the summer when he was cleaning out his cottage and preparing to move to Florida. We said goodbye and he added, "I'm through with Quonochontaug.".
Jan, my wife and I met Don and Judy, his first wife who was sick, at the same time we met Bill and Cass Sullivan very many years ago. Don became a good friend and I knew of some of his quiet and very kind assistance to the invalid and sick at the beach. Leaving behind the investment of so much time and effort in his life in Quonochontaug and its people was hard for me to believe.
But I was wrong and i'll miss our conversations, topics like old skiers skiing with their grandchildren while we drank Black and Tan ale. Don didn't make Florida but he left behind s life very well lived in Rhode Island---one that will be greatly missed.
Tom Higgins
Glastonbury, CT
December 14, 2015
