Patricia Lewis Beckler grew up in Nashville, TN, where she graduated from Vanderbilt and taught school for three years before mutual friends introduced her to John Beckler. They were married in 1956 and lived in Kingsport, TN, until moving to Columbia, SC, where she still lives today. John Beckler, former president of Carolina Eastman Company, father of two, and husband of forty-seven years, was diagnosed with dementia, memory impairment, and possible Alzheimer's, only five months after his retirement On April 1, 1996. This book is Pat's tribute to their lives together, and tells the story of their last fourteen years.