Steve. Gone. Damn. What a fine soul! I will appear at the service, and probably talk too long, but I thought I’d tell a recent little Steve story here.
In the summer of 2010, NugeFam 2.0 (my wife Kati, me, and four little kids) visited California and exploited the bottomless hospitality of Steve and Jackie. We took over Parkside Drive and then we took over Kenwood. In Kenwood, my daughter Molly, then 4 years old, fell in love with Steve. He liked her a lot, too, I’m happy to say. Each morning for a week, Steve and Molly and Hudson the three-legged dog took a long walk together. Nobody else could join them. It was their special time. They chatted about the proverbial everything under the sun. What a wonderful gift he gave her! She loves him still, and mourns him. More than anyone I’ve ever met – anyone, anywhere – Steve knew how to give and take love casually, with no trumpets, but with a profundity made deeper by its very naturalness.
He was a gift to us.
-- Conn Nugent
It makes me so happy and so sad to have some firsthand evidence about what an awesome grandpa my dad would have been. Thanks Conn.
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