good by to Pat Zink 10/13/09

I have been friends with Pat & Joy for 31 years. I met Joy at a young adult activity and she introduce me to her fiance Pat. Pat and I had a friendship like a typical brother and sister. He would always say, "you never know what you are going to get out of Karen" and i always enjoyed going up to visit with them. Our children were close in age and with my going up there 4-6 times a year when my kids were growing up, we are were like a big happy family. Pat loved to cook very fancy meals and he really liked food. I used to tell him that food was his God. He didn't dispute that. Sadly, Joy and Pat divorced and I know this was hard on Pat. About 15 years ago, he got a flu bug that attacked his heart and enlarge it and he had suffered from the affects of that. He was overweight and a lot of our disputes was my trying to get him to eat more healthy. I took the skin off the chicken and he had a cow. "hey, that's the best part" I told him, "hey, you don't need it you are heavy enough". Our meal times up in Safford with Joy and Pat were very humerous since it didn't take much for me to start laughing and get the ball ping ponging around with the kids and all. He will be missed, even though he drove people with his extreme political views and his sarcastic ways.. I guess that was one thing we both have in common, we both were very sarcastic and it would be a contest who could get to the other one the worst. He passed away on Oct 13th, 2009. He will be missed however I know he is in a better place and I know when we meet again, it will be a quite a reunion.