Pop's Passing

Along about 1920, Pop developed asthma and the slightest exertion made him gasp for breath. I guess he consulted a doctor, I don't know, but he seemed to have it for the rest of his life. In April of 1924, we had a heavy snowstorm and he caught a severe cold. The snow had drifted and piled up on the porch roof. Pop was afraid the roof would collapse and he stood on the lawn while he directed me, up on the roof, to shoveling off the snow. I often wondered if that is how he caught the cold. At any rate he died a few days later of heart failure on April 14, 1924. By that time I was in my third year of high school and things never seemed the same after that.