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In Memory of
Roger W.
Shadwick
1942 - 2016
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A Friend of the Heart

This is not so much a story as a fond recollection. Rog and I were friends briefly in second grade at Holmes School before he left to enroll at Visitation. Years later. as a  freshman at Leo High School, I recognized him immediately since Rog, from his earliest years, always had a unique personal style. Throughout the high school years we shared the fun, activities, and angsts of the teen-age years. 

We sang together in choir and glee club, frequented social occasions together, and eventually formed our own three-chord rock band. We had great fun with that which lasted into college years, dodging beer bottles at frat dances not withstanding. Roger's deft touch at lead guitar was resposible for what success we had. 

I was happy and proud to stand beside him as he took that lovely, rare gem of a young woman, Margie Pierce, to be his bride. The years of friendship that followed included a chaoticly joyful riverboat venture down the Mississippi. It would take a novel to relate the fun of that trip with Roger, Margie, Loraine , and Ted....and let me not forget a black lab named King whom Roger had to teach to swim. 

Marriage, children, and life in general eventually lead us in different directions. Phone numbers and addresses became out of date and attempts to reconnect were not successful. Roger, however, was never long out of my mind as memory of him will never leave my heart.

It is my hope that he has joined another good friend, Andy Arrigo, our old rythm guitar man who passed in April of this year, and that they will be making a joyful noise together up there. 

Posted by Doug DeGregorio
Thursday October 27, 2016 at 2:11 pm
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