Dan was a man who truly adored his family and loved his friends, and he would do anything to help someone in need. He was one of those special few of whom it’s said: “He’d give you the shirt off his back.” I talked to my sisters and these are some of our memories: -We all loved having a baby brother. Connie said she was his baby-sitter and would take him for long walks in a wicker buggy. Once she was eating a marshmallow and chocolate cookie, while she was alone with him. She broke off a piece of chocolate and gave it to Danny. He smacked his lips and loved it. Later our mom came in and saw that Danny had spit up. She became hysterical she thought that it was blood. -While living in Madison, Connie would make nice meals for him and one day she served frozen peas. He said they were so good, he’d never eat canned peas again. -Connie and Bill changed his life by helping him finish his education. -Once while I was baby-sitting him, Mama said he was to get a bottle at a certain time. I kept on watching the clock so I wouldn’t miss his feeding time. When the time came to feed him, I went to fix his bottle but I couldn’t get the nipple on. I panicked and grabbed the sleeping baby in one arm and the bottle in the other, and ran to the neighbor for help. -We sisters took turns doing dishes, which we hated. We’d stand in the kitchen and say, “I wish a little elf would come along and do these dishes,” then go and sit on the porch. Several minutes later we’d come inside and see all the dishes done. And there was Danny grinning from ear to ear. He caught on to our trick after several incidents. -He always called me Patsy and he never let me forget the time I made popcorn and wouldn’t share it with him. -My family always went to Dan’s home in Milwaukee for Christmas. One year they had a litter of Siamese kittens. Dan said my children could have a female because they only had one male. My kids picked out the one they wanted and put a ribbon around her neck. You guessed it, the next day the ribbon was gone so they just picked out another kitten and named her Sabrina. A year later, when we took her to the Vet to have her spayed, the Veterinarian said he’d have a hard time doing that because Sabrina was actually a male. -Janice was usually stuck with Dan wherever she went. Once she was going ice-skating, and Dan didn’t have anything warm to wear. Jan pulled out a box of girl clothes our cousin Doris had sent over. She found a pair of jodphurs and put them on a reluctant Danny as snow-pants. Then took him along and put him in the warming house at the rink to stay warm. They got home and she said to him, “Take off the glad rags.” He was so upset he shouted, “Glad Rags-Glad Rags!!!” -On Halloween one year Janice dressed Dan up like a girl in a skirt, a blouse, and a red frumpy wig. She told our landlord that she was a cousin from Sheboygan. Later Dan took off the wig and our landlord said, “I thought she had funny looking hair!” We all loved Dan all his life from the time he looked like Elvis, until the time he looked like Benjamin Franklin. We’ll all miss him. His Middle Sister, Patsy (Pat Krause)