James Richard Gannon

I met Jim only through knowing his sweet precious daughter Liz. Pam when I read your story of Jim, I could just tell how very much Liz was like him. You see my husband had leukemia and I wrote to a show called Cousins under cover on HGTV after they told me to write as my parents were in ministry and had died 8 months apart and we bought their home then my husband needed care w dealing w leukemia and we had gone through his savings and have needed help w wood Rot and repairs as we have...

Jim was my "train buddy" for many years on the Chicago Metra train. We boarded the train at the same station every morning, sat next to each other in the same seat, worked a few blocks from each other so walked with each other til we had to go our separate ways for the day (always kissing each other on the cheek as our goodbye), then caught up with each other nearly every afternoon on the train home and sat next to each other when we could. We spent a lot of time chit-chatting and he became...