Jane Fishman is a contributing lifestyles columnist for the Savannah Morning News. Gordon S. Varnedoe died April 24.
Oh, Gordon. No, no no. This can’t be true. You’re too young (82), you have too many jokes left to tell (not that I always understood them), too many weddings to officiate, too many Georgia Days to celebrate, too many Batman costumes to wear. You take up too much space in a room – in a good way – for you not to be here.
You have too many stories to tell, like the time you won the $200,000 Quik Pik Powerball ticket at a Parker’s gas station on Victory Drive. Who wins that much money? Before that it was the $10,000 you snagged in the Mega Millions category. Was there some lucky sequence you chose?