Simon Jerome “SJ” Angel, Jr. was reunited with his beloved wife, Betty Ann, on November 17, 2018. He was born in Coal County, Oklahoma. SJ retired from the Miami, Arizona copper mines after 30-plus years of dedicated service.
He is survived by his son, Larry (Kathleen); granddaughters, Kelly Angel and Kaycee Angel-Archer (Eric); and 3 great-granddaughters, McKinley Ann, Lincoln Marie, and Pierce Stella.
Private services and interment were held at the Globe Cemetery.
In memory of SJ, donations may be made to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital in the name of the Angel-Archer family.
Finally fall.
At last the mist,
heat’s haze, we woke
these past weeks with
has lifted. We find
ourselves chill, a briskness
we hug ourselves in.
Frost greying the ground.
Grief might be easy
if there wasn’t still
such beauty — would be far
simpler if the silver
maple didn’t thrust
it’s leaves into flame,
trusting that spring
will find it again.
All this might be easier if
there wasn’t a song
still lifting us above it,
if wind didn’t trouble
my mind like water.
I half expect to see you
fill the autumn air
like breath —
At night I sleep
on clenched fists.
Days I’m like the child
who on the playground
falls, crying
not so much from pain
as surprise.
I’m tired of tide
taking you away,
then back again —
what’s worse, the forgetting
or the thing
you can’t forget.
Neither yet —
last summer’s
choir of crickets
grown quiet.
~ Kevin Young