Walter Lester Abele

My Pap Pap was one of the most important people in my life. He was loving, protective, and principled, all the things you´d hope a grandfather would be, but he was also so much more than that. He was funny, thoughtful, full of stories, and always ready to explain something so that you could understand it just the way he did. Some of my happiest memories are at the farm he owned, where I´d spend hours riding in the trailer of his lawnmower, collecting rocks, climbing cherry trees when I...