It is hard to know where to start when describing your parents because one gets such a flood of events and emotions pouring out of ones early to late interactions with your closest relative. Dad was always in my mind a gentleman and he knew it. He was not my most verbal parent but when he gave me direction or advice you had the opinion that he was probably right and expected at least a modicum of behavioral change on my part.
Rod Perry Hughes was a great parent-mentor-friend. I still think of him often as a model for “The good life”.