WILLIAM EARL CANADY

I should have been en route right about now to Hampton, VA to attend my father's memorial service. But with COVID-19 cases exploding in Knoxville and all across Hampton and the rest of the peninsula, I couldn't in good conscience risk the chance of exposure to myself or any of my loved ones. Things have changed rapidly in just the last six weeks when we were there, the week he passed.

So, below are the remarks I had prepared.

My father was a very quiet man. I didn’t...