another of the greatest generation

Pete Fox   

Pete Fox was a good guy:
true to who he knew himself to be,
true to his better half
with whom he built a good life,
true to God
with whom and for whom he lived every day,

low country South Carolina helped birth him--
there where heat, humidity, & bounty are abundant:
watermelon, boiled peanuts, rice, shrimp & crab,
and people for whom family and community
give a reason for each beat of the heart,

Pete excelled at a career that took his family
to big city Chicago, then to St. Louis,
then to the hills of East Tennessee,
where work, friends, and golf filled him,
low country South Carolina called Pete and Millie back:
to Edisto, to Ehrhardt, to their roots,

their son Cyril was the light of their life
and they followed their love to Atlanta,
where God called Pete home,
and all who knew him are lesser
without Pete still being there for us.

with love,
from Henry Hiott Walker
July 5, ’12