NORTH LIBERTY Friends and relatives traveled here to pack up Andy Pavlovec s belongings Wednesday. While doing so, they unpacked three decades worth of warm memories of him.
There were the high school years at Turkey Valley, when Pavlovec was a class cutup, once wearing the same shirt five days in a row to show what he thought of the peer pressure to be fashionable.
There was a bicycle ride across the state that saw Pavlovec and his childhood buddy repeatedly being separated, only to have a hug-filled reunion in the evenings.
And there was the knowledge that Pavlovec s organs were bound to provide life for some strangers. Pavlovec was a firm believer in recycling. His parents and three brothers found that to be a fitting footnote to his life.