I lost my last grandparent just twelve days ago. I lost my father's mother
Nancy June (Finazzo) Pinna last year. My grandma
Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch who helped raise me in 2017, my grandfather
Frank Kroetch in 2001, and my father's father
Frank Michael Pinna a year later in 2002.
I will always cherish the discussions we had where Armand shared with me so many stories from his past. He would always give me a hard time for not knowing about many of the things he saw during his lifetime. He lived a very full and amazing life.
As much as I love building things (what many call business), it was our conversations about his and his parents' past that always took my attention.
It was actually a discussion that I had with him on this day (see
Armand Kunde - Stillwater Yacht Club) that inspired me to build these biographies into the page you are reading this on right now.
Like with my grandfather, Armand witnessed and experienced things unique to his time and generation. Those experiences, and the resulting stories, will never be repeated. They deserve and need to be shared so that they are always remembered.
I came driving home from our visit on April 27th 2019 and sat in this very office I'm sitting in today, and began building and crafting something that could serve this purpose and tell some of his stories.
Thank you Armand...for everything.