Harris Teel, Always a Fighter, in His Biggest Battle

I last talked to my father-in-law on Sunday. Friends had bought a swing set and playscape that had for years sat in his Gilmer backyard. Our daughter Abbie had long outgrown its use. I was meeting them there to help load it. “How are you doing, Mr. Teel,” I asked. I have always called him that, out of respect for the patriarch of this clan. “Fine as froghair,” he said, as always. Two days later, he was in Good Shepherd Medical Center’s operating room, the victim of a random stabbing attack in a waiting room at the hospital’s day-surgery center. He was there waiting to take...

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