Marv Hurd passed away 11 days ago, and for 11 days I have not been able to write about it.
I suppose that's primarily due to a little shock and disbelief on my part. One evening I'm enjoying tacos and trivia with the man and the very next day I'm told he has died.
Pretty difficult to wrap my brain around that.
I had known Marv for nearly twenty years and I can state unequivocally that there was never a time when I didn't enjoy being around him.
He possessed the odd ability to be as cranky as all get out and as generous as Saint Nicholas, sometimes at the same exact moment, which caught a lot of people off guard but kept me both amazed and puzzled. I mean, he could never suffer fools, not for a minute, but he was never one to excise a person from his life, no matter how much he didn't like an aspect or two of their demeanor or behavior.
And being part of Marvs circle of friends was a fun, adventurous thing. Years ago, when I first met him, he and his wife Deb and daughters E & B hosted an annual end of summer crawfish/seafood boil that was attended by close to a 100 friends, if not more - it was an exceptionally good time.
He and his wife also welcomed friends to stay at their Condo down in PV for up to a week at a time, and they were gracious hosts there, taking people for tours of the city and the bay, and introducing their guests to great restaurants and nightspots that were virtually unknown to the average tourists.
Marv was also one of the few self-made men I've known over the years who was truly self-made. He dropped out of school before finishing the 10th grade and went to work in the gruelling construction field, working his way up from general laborer to owner and operator of his own successful concrete business.
Along the way he married Deb, a union that lasted from the day of their wedding until his untimely passing. They built and enjoyed an adventurous life together, bringing two daughters into the world and making hundreds of friends and very few enemies, if any.
I miss Marv, and I imagine a part of me always will.
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