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From: "Lou Rivera" LouisRRivera@sbcglobal.net
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Subject: Re: AC Grable - Follow-up
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:35 PM
Lynn, just to let you know as I was driving home from the service, some 30 minutes after the ceremony, I was taking the 60 freeway east going to Norco in Riverside when I almost had to pull over suddenly. Along the shoulder of the freeway about 50 feet above the cars, I had to literally blink and ask myself could it be the same White Birds. They had to have been, as I started remembering what the man said at the service about going back to Hacienda. This was the direction they were going. As I looked to the front of the flock I started to choke up, remembering what else the man said about AC (the first bird he set free) flying around the Cemetery waiting for the rest of us( the rest of the birds he later let go), to lead us to our destiny. I remember, around the time of AC's death, thinking about calling him to see how he was doing but put it off as I was busy trying to get my summer college team together. As I gazed at the Lead Bird, I thanked AC for waiting for me along the freeway to say Goodbye and that I wasn't crying out of sadness, but that, We didn't get to give each other one more hug.
I lost another young player back in 1997, Quinn McEgan, to sudden death also. Both Quinn and AC are very, very similar in the way they treated other people, their Love for baseball, their overcoming health issues at an early age, and their impact on so many lives, young and old.
I am blessed to have known not one Angel, but Two.
Please let the gentleman, who owns those beautiful Birds, know that they accomplished one more mission that day and that was to help Me see AC one more time to say Hello and Goodbye ( It was as good as a Hug )
Lynn if you want to share this you may.
Love, Hope & Faith,
Lou Rivera
951 733-2347

---I WAS BLESSED TO BE YOUR FRIEND. I'M THANKFUL YOU WERE ABLE TO LIVE OUT PART OF YOUR DREAM--- You are what Parents hope their Kids will grow up to be: A Gentleman, Compassionate, Humble, Determined in your Pursuit of Life Goals and You Knew your Weaknesses and Strenghts and Lived accordingly.Thank You AC, you are one of my Inspirations in why I do this.
PAPALOU
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A C Grable III
August 20, 1983 - April 20, 2011
Visitation/ServicesObituary

Funeral Service

Saturday, May 7, 2011 | 11:00 AM
Rose Hills Memorial Park - SkyRose Chapel (View Chapel)
3888 Workman Mill Rd., Whittier, California 90601 | (562)699-0921
Enter Park through Gate: 1 | Service: Concludes At Interment Site | Interment: Mariposa Terrace | Lot: 1128 | Grave: 3 | Enter Park through Gate: 1


please see " MY INSPIRATIONS "

 

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Mourners are finding highly personalized ways to honor loved ones who have died
Sept 24,1997

By Mark Kendall
The Press-Enterprise

Who knows what they'll do to remember you.

People these days are making funerals and memorial services more personal, more creative. That may mean showing the loved one's baby pictures on a video screen or singing that song he used to belt out in the shower or burying a boy with his favorite base ball cap. Most common, perhaps, is giving family or mourners a chance to share stories about the person who died.

The idea is to make the ceremony a celebration of the person's life. Of course, this can't take away the sorrow. But it can help survivors in their grief because they know they've given a fitting farewell.

Coach Louie Rivera found a tangible way to remember Quinn McEgan, a 15-year-old baseball player from Norco who died in a traffic accident in June.

McEgan was so devoted to baseball that he had asked Rivera, a contractor as well as a coach, to help him build a batting cage in his back yard so he could practice more.

For the six months before the teen-ager's death, the pair worked together on weekends building the batting cage, which was actually more like a little baseball field. For the service, Rivera brought the red brick dust -- used for dirt in the infield -- that the teen-ager had shoveled. Rivera invited mourners to come forward and take some.

"That's something that he touched and I wanted to give that back to the kids," Rivera says. "Because everyone knows that baseball was his life."