Do it now, Part II

One thing I love about the blog is the help it provides me in clarifying what nagging “voices” I need to pay attention to inside my head.

Chuck Hennessey , a well-known funeral director in Spokane, died Saturday of cancer. He had just turned 80 two weeks ago.

Chuck was a familiar face at almost all Catholic funerals. As a funeral-goer, I’ve run into him many times over the years and interviewed him in 2003 for a column on attending funerals. He was on a short list for a Wise Words interview (a series of conversations I do each month with wise people in our community.)

I finally called him a couple of months ago, but he was out of town and then I heard he might not be doing so well.

And then Saturday, the cancer he battled for nine years, a battle he was very open about, finally got the best of him. I should have listened to the voice in my head that said Chuck won’t be around forever, talk to him soon. But I think part of me thought Chuck would be around forever, because he was such a fixture at funerals for more than 50 years.

(Photo courtesy of Hennessey Funeral Homes)