Betsy Brooks: We butted heads from the moment we could. He was a proud Marine, and I always say that we learned the Marine Corps hymn before we knew our ABC' s. He was a meticulous man. He was meticulous about the house and the yard. And he was a perfectionist. His favorite tool was his level. I was just cut from a different cloth. My mother, she would make these lists of, you know, all my day's crimes. She would save them for my father when he came home from work, and he would turn positively livid. So, the day I turned eighteen, I got myself my own apartment.

John Grecsek: When did the Alzheimer's start?

BB: It started to become obvious that he wasn't himself. He was a razor sharp person, but he started not to be able to do simple things. I remember one time I asked him to make some picture frames for me. He loved to do that sort of stuff. When I came home after work, you know, m...
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