In the Loving Memory of My Mother, Rose Wittman

24 December 1911 - 18 November 2004

She was one of my greatest models

and the model by which I live my life.

 

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In the Loving Memory of My Wonderful Father

Lawrence Wittman

He taught me lots as a kid. He was always interested and supportive of me. He would have really loved the way I turned out. He died way too young.

When I was growing up, during and just after WWII, all my friends' dads were in or had been in the military. I always felt like bad that my father had not gone to war. I volunteered to go to Viet Nam. I now think I was trying to rectify the family honor. It's a good thing that I didn't get maimed or killed for such a silly reason. Especially since, I found the following citation in his personal file, after he died. My father worked for Republic Aviation and made the P-47 Thunderbolt planes that saved many other fathers' asses in the War. He also was one of the inventors of fiberglass reinforced plastics which greatly increased their ability to manufactur plans faster and made possible all the wonderful things that are made from fiberglass, today.

 

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In the Loving Memory of My Dear Friend, Mentor

and Surrogate Mother, R. Sparkle Stillman

14 April 1915 - 8 October 2005

The world has lost a wonderful, generous, all loving and very funny lady and a great actress. The loss to me is beyond description.