Dee Brookover, widow of former BJ truck driver and super volunteer Fred
Brookover, has a wedding to attend in October.
The son of Dolores
Ann Campanale Brookover and Fred Brookover will be marrying Kendall Wolfe of
Florida in Melbourne Beach, Florida. I’ve walked that beach. It’s a glorious
place to enjoy the Atlantic Ocean which I did with a fellow Monongah High (WV)
classmate Bob Cottrill, who lives in Melbourne proper not far from Melbourne
Beach.
Philip
moved to Florida more than a decade ago.
He’s manager of the FedEx near the Orlando Airport main
terminal with 500 employees.
Dee’s cousins, who became parents 36 hours apart, were
featured in the BJ, which followed their children through birth, kindergarten
and their 40th birthdays. That would be Phyllis Antonio, Marie
Campanelli and Richard Leonard, whose wife Gloria Leonard has one of the 3
babies born 36 hours apart.
Fred passed away May 21. As for Fred’s arrangements, Dee
said, “My son Philip is helping me” with details of Fred’s passing, including
cremation. “I’m doing the legwork.”
Fred “was a goofy guy,” Dee told me lovingly in our
hour-long phone conversation.
Fred’s remains will be in an urn that will be placed at
Akron’s Holy Cross Cemetery.
“I want to stay down here,” Dee said. She and son Philip
are exploring rentals in Winter Park, Florida, which is 30 miles from
Kississimme, where Dee lives and only 6 miles from Disney World.
Dee is part of the Gasbarro family in Summit
County. Dee’s sister, Marie Gasbarro Campanelli, one of the 3 women who birth
within 36 hours, lives in Tallmadge.
The October wedding will be a silver lining for Dee after
Fred’s passing.
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