William M. Fritz

I am his younger daughter. My husband, son, and I have a family policy to try to find the good in everything. And even though we were devastated when my father-in-law died unexpectedly in 2003, it was one of the reasons we brought my dad to Cleveland three years ago. I'm grateful that we had that time with him and also for some wonderful childhood memories. Finally, I just read an article with a great piece of advice for people with parents still living: if you have anything to work out...

He was my grandfather. Even though he was in a nursing home, he could sometimes be fun. Like he, my mom and dad, and I would play card games. My favorite was crazy eights, which we played a lot; but we would play other games like war, and blackjack. (We played blackjack with hard candy!) We would visit him a lot, always filling him in on recent news, like when we had concerts or vacations, and how they went. He always listened to our stories very carefully. Sometimes we would bring...