Gordon Corbet Powell was my Uncle Bunny. He passed away this week, bringing back a flood of excellent recollections of my childhood and youthful adulthood.
He was ‘Bunny’ due to the fact he was born on Easter Sunday and the nurse gave him to my grandmother expressing ‘here is your minimal Easter bunny’ and the name trapped.
When I was more mature he requested me and the loved ones if maybe we could connect with him UB alternatively of Uncle Bunny, which we did occasionally.
He was a humorous and eccentric character, a woodworker and engineer. Could correct and make most nearly anything. One of my greatest reminiscences as a kid was the boat/fort he crafted in his back again garden (appropriate all over the corner from our home) for my cousin Jim, who is just a calendar year more youthful than I am. This was a genuine solidly designed creating kind fort in the shape of a boat, with a deck and bunks and a bridge to stand on top rated of and faux to travel the boat.
They moved up to Mill Valley in Marin County, California in the 60’s and it was terrific pleasurable to check out them there. Climbing up Mt. Tamapais and observing ‘black bread’ in a little alpine cafe on the way for the initially time.
He founded the Marin Zeppelin Culture, which was only open to persons who experienced survived lighter than air disasters. Of training course, considering that all who were alive had survived anything, anyone could sign up for. It was a joke missing on some persons.
My father, who was in aviation his total everyday living, essentially received the MZS group a ride on the Goodyear blimp and they obtained a certification and every thing. The team definitely was just an excuse to get collectively with a bunch of men and shoot the breeze at a neighborhood diner.
He did fanagle Mill Valley into putting an MZS plaque on the entry marker to the town alongside the Rotary and Lions club plaques. That often cracked me up to go into city and see that.
He built a residence in Mill Valley and all over that time study about the ‘Aubrey holes’ bordering stonehenge in the United kingdom. They are holes crammed with chalk in a ideal circle some length from Stonehenge. They were found I believe when a particular Mr. Aubrey was walking his puppy and stuck his umbrella or cane into the dirt and it had chalk on the finish of it. My uncle developed an aubrey hole at his new residence so he would have the only aubrey gap in the colonies. THAT was his sense of humor.
The photos above had been taken in Estes Park, Colorado exactly where he spent his summers with the relaxation of my mother’s side of the household. He afterwards harness raced at the Del Mar racetrack in California.
He was a excellent uncle. I have fantastic reminiscences of him.
Posted by Marty Coleman, The Serviette Dad on 2008-02-28 16:17:34
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