Thanks For Being Here - Jerry Kinkead's Tribute to Huck

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A kitchen clock keeps perfect time for 55 years, witnessing countless conversations and quiet moments above a kitchen table. Kelly reads Jerry Kinkead's tribute to her brother-in-law Huck, a story about enduring presence and the people who stay steady when everything else shifts. Through memories of a reliable GE clock and the man who gifted it, Jerry remembers someone who was steady, curious, funny and always there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Thanks for being here, a short weekly pod to remind us of the many
0:05.4	essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday, I'll read a submission from a
0:12.1	listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Could be wedding vows or a bat mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or
0:17.3	retirement speech. We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember
0:24.0	our highest values.
0:26.0	We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love.
0:30.5	Maybe someone you miss and need to bring closer, someone you want to feel your appreciation
0:35.5	or admiration or both.
0:38.1	This is thanks for being here.
0:47.0	This week's thanks for being here is from a reader and an old, old friend of my mom's.
0:52.8	Her name is Jerry Kincaid.
0:54.8	And she shared words at a memorial in February of 2015
1:00.0	that I heard about from someone else, and then I had to reach out to Jerry and say,
1:04.2	how come you didn't share this with me? My listeners would love this. It's so beautiful.
1:08.4	So, here are Jerry Kincaid's words at her brother-in-law's memorial in February of 2015.
1:17.9	I'm Jerry Kincaid.
1:19.4	I was married to the older Kincaid brother Bill.
1:22.3	In our family, we called Bill's brother Huck.
1:25.1	In the past couple years, I've been thinking about Huck more than usual,
1:28.6	sometimes prompted by a present he gave to Bill and me way back before we were married.
1:34.5	In 1959, when Bill and I became engaged, Huck and Ginny gave us a handsome kitchen clock.
1:40.5	Huck said he bought it at the GE store, where he and other GE employees could shop.
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