Being how I read the newspapers from front to back and
pretty much every article, I came across the obituary pages and noticed there
were two write-ups, one about a judge, with his picture and one of a school
custodian with his picture.
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| Judge Semenga |
The judge Alfred F. Semenga had a great professional, and
private life, filled pretty much with health and great moral examples for his
family to live by. The custodian, William Cea, Jr. when he was a toddler:
suffered a stroke that affected his ability to continue his schooling beyond 8th
grade. He worked in his father’s business and later on in life became a
custodian. Both men had the same amount of words written about them and both
loved by their families.
The family of the judge had a lot to be proud of, as the man
was a good man who served with great distinction. The custodian served the
people around him. He served to make the students of the school his first love,
which even a retired professional football player and current sports
commentator remark about how much he was loved. The custodian always had change
in his pocket to help a student out with lunch money. If the students had a
sales of hats or whatever to raise money, he bought not one, but 4! The sports
teams loved him, giving him autographed pictures or equipment in love and
appreciation, as often he would give up a lunch hour to attend a game or
practice.
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| Mr. Cea, Jr. |
I just find this remarkable, that a man who had a job such
as a janitor or custodian achieved the same lofty admiration of as the judge.
That what he gave in life so mattered that it could equate with a great man as
the judge in terms of love. Just goes to show it is not what we have in life,
but how we deal with it.
So justice was served in a good way, both decent good men
recognized for their achievements as men first. I really would have loved to
have met them both.
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