DEE & FRED BROOKOVER'S SON WILL WED IN OCTOBER

 

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 40^th 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.