seniorcats
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This is very painful. A friend of ours for 29 years, Dale Zivic,died suddenly and unexpectly. Wefound out Monday. He didn't go to work Friday and didn't answer the phone so another friend was sent to check. She found him comatose on the kitchen floor. Dale was life flighted to Cleveland Metro Hospital where it was determined he was brain dead, apparently from a massive stroke. His family ended life support on Monday.
Greg and I are both very sad. Dale and I met when were both county case workers. We had to go to a trailer park to see a notoriously mean and violent client. When we got there, she had a dead possum in the middle of her living room. Things went downhill from there. Years later we would laugh ourselves silly over the visit. Um-m-m-m, how can I put this delicately? This woman was nuts and very dirty. When she stood up, poopies rolled out of the bottom of her shorts. That's how our friendship with Dale began - a crazy client, a surreal scene and lots of laughs.
Over the years we all laughed and laughed and had great times whenever we were together. Dale had an incredible sense of humor, sometimes twisted, and an incredible imagination and alarge amount creativity. I wonder if the Cleveland Museum of Art has ever recovered from the Patron's Night visit the 3 of us made so many years ago?
Dale was a rescuer of many animals - the greater the need, the sadder the case - the harder he worked at rescuing. Our criminal caper when we both worked in Cleveland. Me, Dale and another friend we call Church Lady saw a dog at a house between Scranton Ave and W. 25th St. in Cleveland. There was 1/2 a dog house sitting in a sea of mud, dog chained up, no food, no water. We kept watching the house over 3 days and never saw anyone around. 6:00 AM, 3 of us and pair of bolt cutters liberated the dog. At the vets we found the collar was going into his skin.The dog was a stinking, reeking mess. Dale took him home, cleaned him up and got him treatment. He turned out to be a great companion for many years.
Mention the word 'boats' when we were together and all of us would go into fits of laughter. The story is too long and convoluted to tell here.
Please remember our friend with us and go have a nice long laugh. It's the best way to celebrate his life and his passing.
http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/03/13/dale-m-zivic-2
Greg and I are both very sad. Dale and I met when were both county case workers. We had to go to a trailer park to see a notoriously mean and violent client. When we got there, she had a dead possum in the middle of her living room. Things went downhill from there. Years later we would laugh ourselves silly over the visit. Um-m-m-m, how can I put this delicately? This woman was nuts and very dirty. When she stood up, poopies rolled out of the bottom of her shorts. That's how our friendship with Dale began - a crazy client, a surreal scene and lots of laughs.
Over the years we all laughed and laughed and had great times whenever we were together. Dale had an incredible sense of humor, sometimes twisted, and an incredible imagination and alarge amount creativity. I wonder if the Cleveland Museum of Art has ever recovered from the Patron's Night visit the 3 of us made so many years ago?
Dale was a rescuer of many animals - the greater the need, the sadder the case - the harder he worked at rescuing. Our criminal caper when we both worked in Cleveland. Me, Dale and another friend we call Church Lady saw a dog at a house between Scranton Ave and W. 25th St. in Cleveland. There was 1/2 a dog house sitting in a sea of mud, dog chained up, no food, no water. We kept watching the house over 3 days and never saw anyone around. 6:00 AM, 3 of us and pair of bolt cutters liberated the dog. At the vets we found the collar was going into his skin.The dog was a stinking, reeking mess. Dale took him home, cleaned him up and got him treatment. He turned out to be a great companion for many years.
Mention the word 'boats' when we were together and all of us would go into fits of laughter. The story is too long and convoluted to tell here.
Please remember our friend with us and go have a nice long laugh. It's the best way to celebrate his life and his passing.
http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/03/13/dale-m-zivic-2
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