A sad day in Sanger

Our Mayor died yesterday. He was such a great man. Kind, gentle, caring, he cared a lot about his community but he really cared about people as individuals too. He was involved with the City in some capacity for the last 20 years or more, but he had been mayor since 1998. He became the mayor shortly after I started working for the City. I used to type the minutes for the Council meetings, I remember listening to the first tape, my boss had advised the City Council that she had hired a new assistant and had given them my name. The Mayor told them what a great family I had come from and how pleased he was at her choice. He has always been close to my family. Everyday he would come in the office walk by my desk, and say "Oh no, there's trouble" he would always flip stuff over on my desk, turn my little armadillo backwards, turn my papers upside down, he was always being silly. I can honesly say I loved him. I'll miss you Tommy.