Love, Hope and Grief for Jonathan and Jamie's Pop Pop George

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Moira O’Connor submitted this 2-part eulogy written and originally read by her nephews Jonathan and Jamie to honor her dad/their grandfather, George Hebbel. George was the father of 5, grandfather of 13, and great grandfather of 14. He was a man who was larger than life: a fighter pilot, a water skier who skied with a pipe casually clenched in his teeth, an ocean kayaker able to hoist his kayak on top of his Jeep well into his 80’s. However it was the smaller, quieter moments in George’s life that truly made him a legend: the many times he reached out to help someone in need, the situations in which he simply showed up, his ability to let others love him. He was a man who was always there for his family and friends, right up to the very end.

Happy Father’s Day to all - from the team at Kelly Corrigan Wonders.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Thanks for being here. Very short pod that comes out every Sunday morning as
0:08.1	Sundays are such a good time to let go of the day to day and touch base with what matters,
0:12.9	what will matter and what will have mattered. The answer to that question for me is often
0:18.0	found in ceremonies I could watch strangers get married once a week and I'm even more
0:22.7	affected by funerals sitting in a service taking in the story of one life. Just another
0:29.1	ordinary person who they loved and who loved them. In a way, eulogies are about the most succinct
0:36.2	source of clarity and direction I can think of. So I ask listeners who have lost someone dear
0:42.5	to share their words and every week I'll read one eulogy here so that we don't forget
0:48.0	there is a point to the pain. We have much to offer. We affect each other deeply and that ordinary
0:55.4	lives are really kind of exquisite when you look at them closely. This is thanks for being here.
1:05.5	Hey guys, Happy Father's Day. So this week I thought that I would share the super special
1:10.7	eulogy for a dad. We get lots of them and read them all and are so grateful for them.
1:17.6	And this eulogy was sent to us by a woman named Mara O'Connor and it was written and read by
1:24.8	two of her nephews Jonathan and Jamie for their grandfather whose name just happened to be George.
1:32.0	He died in 2017 at the age of 94. He was called Pop Pop. This part is Jonathan's portion of the eulogy.
1:44.2	George, my Pop Pop was a legend in my eyes. As I sat down to write my portion of his eulogy,
1:50.0	I asked myself, how do you eulogize a legend? I thought of Pop Pop as a young boy in his boat on
1:56.7	Jamaica Bay catching eels and baitfish to sell to fishermen. I thought of him as a fighter pilot
2:03.1	in his 20s. His plane shot down over France evading the German soldiers and escaping into Switzerland.
2:10.7	I thought of him as a young father to my mom and her siblings effortlessly skimming through the
2:15.4	bays of Stone Harbor on a single water ski with his pipe casually clenched in his teeth.
2:22.1	I had an image of him in his 60s suspended upside down in gravity boots in a doorway doing abdominal
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