It's not often, if ever, at a burial that you hear a duck call, but it was certainly fitting Friday as legendary outdoorsman Grits Gresham was laid to rest in Natchitoches.
Somebody made the remark that Friday's blustery weather was appropriate for a service honoring a man whose love for hunting and fishing was not surpassed. Son Kent, a member of the NSU Athletic Association board of directors, responded with an impromptu duck call. It was, as you would expect, pretty good!
As he would have wanted, Grits' funeral and burial was more a celebration of his life, and of his life's partner, his late wife Mary, than a teary occasion.
You probably don't know that Grits donated a hefty sum of money he won in the Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament to the NSU Athletic Association back in the early '90s. He didn't worry about recognition for doing good things. He just did them.
Doug Ireland, SID
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