Glen Campbell RIP

2017-08-09

Glen Travis Campbell
April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017

When I was a kid of about 12, Glen Campbell hit the scene. He was an American singer, songwriter, musician, teevee personality, and actor. He had a string of hit songs in my youth ... some of which are dear to me because of others in my life who loved them.

For example, Mr Jack Estol Swinger, a teacher from Key West who taught me science and with whom I had homeroom was a big fan due to the song "Wichita Lineman" because he hailed from Wichita Kansas. He is interred there now.

I used to sing along with a number of his songs until I hit that brick wall called rock and roll and from that moment on I was more of a metal head than anything else.

Be all of this as it may, I knew something was amiss when he was being picked up by the police in various stages of disarray and confusion. Through those times I was hoping not to hear that ultimate bad news that he had Alzheimer's ... the scourge of which he endured in public and the tragedy of which his family bore with him the entire time and I respected the high level of dignity their support imparted to him in his illness.

So yesterday, Glen Campbell departed this earth no longer shackled by the infirmity of his life and I wish him and his family peace.