A colorful, larger-than-life character, Dad hailed from a time and place where fighting and strength were measures of a man's worth. He was a captivating storyteller, rowdy into his old age, and a hero who foiled an armed robbery with his bare hands. After his mom died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918, his father kept his younger brother, then abandoned he and his older brother to an orphanage, where the older boy died of a disease curable today. Fostered...