Our family and the Mandigos were neighbors for ten years in the 1950's and 1960's, until our family moved to Florida. The truth is that Alan Mandigo was a heck of a guy. I always envied his brother Jerry for having an older brother like Alan. With his life lived on the family farm and his graduation from Michigan State, one could see, even at my early age that Alan was what we called a "gentleman farmer." He was smart, educated, industrious, as comfortable welding an old Ford tractor as he was working on his Triumph TR-3. He was the kind of person I wanted to be. I very much enjoyed the e-mails he sent me over the past few years. I never knew that he was ill. He will be missed by the Marion family. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Mandigo family. Respecfully, Don Marion and Family