This website was created in memorial, and to celebrate the life of Hubert Earl Thomas, Sr., 60, born on August 7, 1929 and passed away on June 25, 1990. We will remember him forever.
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These are the lyrics to a song by Tim McGraw, a Country-Western artist. But it just seems to sum up the last 14 months of Hubert's life. I get my appreciation of ALL kinds of music from my dad. He would tell me, "just listen to the words, baby."
~ The name of the song is "Live Like You Were Dying ~
He said, I was in my early forties with a lot of life before me when a moment came that stopped me on a dime I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays talking 'bout the options and talking 'bout sweet times I asked him when it sank in that this might really be the real end how's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news? Man, what'd ya do? He said I went skydiving, I went rocky mountain climbing, I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu, and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter, and I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'.
And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dyin'.
He said, I was finally the husband that most the time I wasn't, and I became a friend, a friend would like to have. And all of a sudden goin' fishin' wasn't such an imposition, and I went three times that year I lost my dad. Well I finally read the good book and I took a good long hard look at what I'd do if I could do it all again, and then, I went skydiving I went rocky mountain climbing, I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu, and I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter and I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'.
And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dyin'.
Like tomorrow was a gift and ya got eternity to think about what to do with it, what did you do with it? What did I do with it? What would I do with it?
Skydiving, I went rocky mountain climbing, I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu and I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter, and I watched an eagle as it was flyin'.
And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin'.
New Years Eve - 1987
We had this party the year we got married. Parts of it are a little shaky, I didn't know how to edit those parts out. Funny how you can forget how somebody sounded, their laugh and voice. It was 1990, when you were diagnosed with cancer. You passed just before our third annniversary.
I'm just glad I was able to transfer this video into your memorial, so that your children and friends can enjoy it as much as I do.