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1. 8 Responses to “Uncle Fred Polhemus”

2. The funeral services for Fredrick Conover Polhemus, Jr were held Saturday August 9. Bill Sr said there were about 100 in attendance and his graveside service was held in nearby Clayton. There was a reception at the Eufaula Country Club. I was unable to attend,

   By Bud on Aug 11, 2008

3. Dad didn’t even tell me he had died

   By lainie on Aug 11, 2008

4. He didn’t call me either. I called him this morning to check on Fred. Dad had called me last week to let me know if anything sudden happened they would have a service in Eufaula…

   By Bud on Aug 11, 2008

5. On the one hand, Dad/Bill Sr. is kind of hard to deal with when it comes to things like this. On the other, if you know him this is understandable. He just doesn’t handle negative emotional issues like this very well at all.

   He put it in a nutshell when he told Nancy and me, when we stopped in to see him on our way to De Soto: “I’m not going back over to the hospital any more. There’s no need, and I really wish I hadn’t seen Fred in that state in the first place.”

   That’s just Dad.

   He did tell me, when I called him shortly before we left Beth’s house heading home, that he would “call if there was a change,” but he didn’t. I didn’t really expect him to do so; I just know how he is.

   I’ll give him a call this weekend, when he’s a little more settled. I guess, Bud, that you, Jacob, Seay and I are still scheduled to go to the Clemson-Citadel game with Dad on 9/5. I wanted to call and ask how he wanted to do this, I assumed I would just fly in on Friday evening.

   He didn’t mention my taking the two g’sons with me, and I haven’t summoned up the courage to ask – I didn’t want to put him on the spot if that was a problem. What do you think?

   Love, Bill

   By bill on Aug 11, 2008

6. It looks as though the first son’s are the invitees…
   Rick is planning on bringing his son Jason and I was asked if Jacob could come (Adam & Ethan were not mentioned). This is Dad’s way of inferring the guest list. 6 Polhemus boys will be present. That is a record in any Polhemus get together I have ever seen (Panama City about 1972… w/ Dad, Fred, Rick, You & Me was the last record)

   By Bud on Aug 11, 2008

7. Dad did go back to the hospital. He called me last friday and said he was going. He also made it a point to tell me that he wanted to pay for me to fly and see tommy in October. He is trying to marry me off so he doesn’t have to help me financially anymore. But he did go see Fred friday. I think that is great all you guys are going to the Clemson game. I think Dad will love it. He deals better with grown kids .

   By lainie on Aug 11, 2008

8. Bud, thanks for the tip.

   You know, back during the “Cold War” days, they had academic-types who were called “Kremlinologists.” They spent their careers poring over and studying the minute details of the limited information allowed to escape into the outside world from the Soviet Union’s government.

   They were important because such information was sparse, enigmatic and sometimes contradictory. These scholars were expected to “read between the lines” and guess what was really going on in the halls of power in the Kremlin.

   I guess nowadays, we need a BillPolhemusologist who can interpret the often perplexing emanations from Polhemus Père, so we’ll all know what he’s really thinking and saying!

   I guess that’d be you, Bud. You seem to have more insight into his mind than I EVER had!!!

   By bill on Aug 12, 2008

9. Farther back than the “Cold War” were the horrifying days of Nazism, ruled by an insane man named Adolph Hitler. There were those same academic types then that pored over and studied the EXTREMELY LIMITED information that was allowed to escape into, not only the outside world, but to the German people…..and what they mostly studied was the BRAIN of the mad man himself, HH. (High Hitler!!! or Heil Hitler!! Take your pick.) What no one knew until he was good and dead, the war lost, Nazism crushed….was that he was a drug addict. Oh, it’s common knowledge now. But not then. The doctor who administered the drugs (in the form of shots, and pills…and I forget the name of the drug.) didn’t talk until it was safe to do so. Then it all came out. As so MUCH came out. And it usually does.

   By mother on Aug 19, 2008

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