EDWARD JOHN GUSE Jr.

GUSE, Edward John Jr., 73, USAF CMSGT (Ret.), The earth lost one of its kindest and gentlest people when Edward Guse died at his residence in the evening of Thursday, December 18th, 2003. He is preceded in death by wife, Nor-ma. He leaves behind a family that will always remember him and as-pire to live up to the examples he set in life.He will be missed by Virginia Gould of Bandera, TX and Jeanette New-by of Selma, OR and cousin and best friend, Jack Jenkins of La Mi-rada, CA.His children will always remember him. They are: Rene Coyle, Brenda Bonham and Sandra Larson of Ra-pid City, SD, Bobby Stringer, Mi-chael Eaves, Donna Puckett, Jen-nifer Fuller and Erik Stringer, all of Montgomery, Alabama.His greatest joy was his eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. They are: Jamie, Melissa, Sarah, Christopher, Justan, Dylan, Leslie, Preslie, Anna, Jacob and Kensley; great-granddaught-ers are Rainen and Abigail.The lives he touched and inf-luenced are too many to list. No child walked before him and did not get treated as his own. He lived his life with a open heart, open mind and open arms and he leaves all of us to follow in his foot-steps.Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Sunday, December 21, 2003 at Leak-Memory Chapel Fu-neral Home. Rev. Lenny Bolton will officiate funeral services at Leak-Memory at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 22nd, 2003, followed by burial at Greenwood Cemetery with full military honors. Flowers will be accepted. In lieu of flowers and the season for being charitable, the family requests that you do one good deed to help someone else as your way of honoring the pas-sing of a man who never kept count of his good deeds.Leak-Memory Chapel Directing