Sam Elliott Died

Charles Watts, a fellow-retired, Marietta Postal Worker called me today to inform me our co-worker Sam Elliott died yesterday.  I hate to hear that.  Sam was a good person.

Sam’s mother worked for my late aunt Bee.  Bee’s oldest son is Bobby.  I remembered Bobby told me he and Sam Elliott, near the same age, had a special relationship.  Bobby knew I worked with Sam at the post office.

When Bobby told me this, a few months ago, he was calling from a casino in Mississippi.   I don’t know why he chose that moment, about 400 miles from home to tell me – maybe he just realized I knew Sam from work and thought he would tell me while it was still on his mind.

Today, when I called Bobby to tell him that Sam died he was sorry to hear that but said, “Guess where I am at?”

“I don’t know, where?”

“By a slot machine in Gulfport, Mississippi.”