Saturday, April 25, 2020
I think of Alex every time I use the super-long metal shoe horn he made for every member of the choir. I didn’t realize the metal shoe horn connection to his career in sheet metal industry until I read his obituary. I will miss how he would say the hymn numbers in French “deux cent soixante-quatre”and his greetings in French “Bon Soir” “Commet allez vous, mon ami" he would say to Tony Martin as we would enter or leave practice. They would be looking up the hymn numbers and he'd be chatting with Tony in the pew behind his wife, Caryl, and she would be hushing him during the church service. He sang for nearly 70 years with the Holy Family/St Lawrence choir and he will be greatly missed by all.
I will think of him in heaven singing in French with Mary and Jesus
"J'irai la voir un jour". Au ciel, au ciel, au ciel,
The words of that French song translated: I will see her one day In heaven, in my garden Yes, I will see Mary My joy and my love In the sky, in the sky, in the sky I will see her one day In the sky, in the sky, in the sky I will see her there one day I will see her one day I will join with the angels To sing her praises And to form her court I will see her one day This beautiful virgin Soon I will be beside her To Tell her of my love I will see her one day. I will go near her throne To receive my crown In eternal rest I will see her one day I will go far from the earth Upon my mother's heart Rest without return.
God rest his soul and may God comfort Caryl in her loss.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Mechler
