The Casket Salesman

Marilyn Monroe, dead bodies, and pickles, what do they have in common? A 12 year old Scott spends a summer with his grandfather, The Casket Salesman.

He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1922. He was a coal miner's son. He lost his parents early in his life to yellow fever. He was raised by a step-aunt. We called her Grandma Nichols. I remember her as mean, crotchety, and having a bad, but hilarious habit of letting her teeth fall out of her mouth into her lap while she talked. She spread darkness and fear everywhere she went. Uncle Willard worked in the mine as a 12-year-old. He bought a yellow and beige convertible Buick when he was 16 years old.

Later, he drove coal trucks from Scranton to New York City. He gave a lift to Marylin Monroe once before she was famous. He told me he always had the gift for storytelling, but he really got good after he was shot down over Germany during WWII and spent three years a prisoner in a German Stalag.

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