Ronald Howard Shattler, Sr.

 IN LOVING MEMORY

Ronald Howard Shattler, Sr. was born in Minneapolis, MN on July 27, 1946 to Howard Wolfe Shattler and Gladys Lamb Chapek. His family moved to Southern California when he was a baby. Ron passed away on Friday, January 2, 2026.

He leaves behind a very loving wife, Gerry (Gigi) Wright Shattler, son, Ronald Howard Shattler, Jr. and his wife, Roxana Doyle, daughter, Amber Shattler Huston and husband Joe Huston, daughter Laura Shattler and Dirk Miller, and daughter Stacey Wright Bomsta and Grant Bomsta. He had a brother, David, a sister, Diane, a younger brother, Jerry and sister, Susie, all who preceded him in death. He is also survived by sister, Sandy Wallace Diaz and brother, Dennis Diaz, both living in Kentucky. He always said that his sister, Susie, is the one who taught him LOVE.

Also surviving him are grandchildren Wyatt Huston, Ronald Shattler, III and Liz Shattler, Max Shattler, Logan Bomsta, Ellie Bomsta and Hutton Bomsta, and two great grandchildren A.J. and Erin Shattler. Ron has numerous cousins, all of whom loved him and his other siblings.

Among some of his jobs, Ron worked for over twenty-five years selling paper among such companies as the Inland Paper Co. in Southern California. For several years he drove an 18-wheeler for C R England Trucking Co., just for fun. When the "fun" became work, he quit and began more traveling. He enjoyed his Harley Davidson Motorcycle and his long and happy rides. He was a member of the East Tennessee Corvette Club and he loved traveling in his "hot" car. His hobbies included painting canvases with his wife, Gigi and fishing, especially with his son, Ronnie.

Ron lived practically his entire life dealing with health issues resulting from the Agent Orange from his time in Vietnam. While in Vietnam, he flew over 450 recon missions as a door-gunner on a Huey helicopter. He received many air metals and other metals of commendation. Ron was a true Patriot and proud to serve his country.

Memorial donations may be made to Tunnel to Towers Foundation, 2361 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10306.

Service will be held in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home at 2 PM Tuesday, January 27, 2026.

Military honors will be provided by American Legion Post# 104.  

Inurnment will be at a later date in East TN State Veterans Cemetery.

My old GMC

My brother Dennis, pictured here with two of my children, put this picture on Facebook of my old GMC Pickup truck.  I remember having some really great fun times in that truck.  I even had to push it out of the driveway to get it to start, but I loved that old truck just the same.

28 F. Degrees

SHUCKS!  I woke up this morning and it's still winter, and the ground outside still has that dusting of snow on it.  Maybe the snow will melt today since it is supposed to reach a high of 45 F. degrees.  Jimmy says the ground is still cold though, and it may not melt today.

We are not in the path of Dennis' ice storm.  The ice storm at our end of the state will be North of us, dropping ice into Lexington and above.  It's supposed to be another major ice storm, and those are not welcomed at all because of the downed trees and power lines.  This time of year is no time to be without power and heat.  Those of us, like Dennis, who have thought ahead are ready with natural gas heat, not dependent on electric heat.  The one thing that we haven't changed over to natural gas is our water heater, so without power we get nothing but cold water.....of course without electricity there is always the possibility of frozen water lines, and when water lines are frozen there is no water at all, just a big mess to clean up when the pipes burst.  Don't you just love winter?

I love snow, snow without ice that is.  Snow makes the earth look beautiful and sanitized.....all clean and white.  If the snow would stay snow and not turn into ice when it's run over by cars or footsteps, it wouldn't be so bad to have it around all winter.   

Anyway.......
It's another cold day here in Paradise, and we love it.  We don't have anywhere we have to be, no doctors or lab appointments, or any reason that we have to go out if we don't want to.  We can of course, because all the roads are clear and free of snow and ice.
Hope everyone is doing well out there in Blogland. 

Snowy day

 Beautiful clumps of snow...

on a frigid day.

It's morning...and, I Love my brother

It's a brand new day, a brand new morning and I get another chance to be a better & nicer person. Not, that I've been a bad person, but I do tend to run my mouth sometimes, well lots of times, and I need to think before I speak or comment on my brother's blog. My brother gets my opinions, mostly on politics, and they're not always nice (my opinions). Well, they aren't bad, they're just not the same as his. So I'm going to be better to my brother and if I don't agree then I'm not going to comment, or maybe I'll comment just as nicely as I can with a "Good Morning Brother" just to let him know that I read his post.

That sounds like a New Year's Resolution doesn't it and I don't make New Year's Resolution because I don't keep resolutions. That's just what I call a Daily Resolution. If you mess up and break a New Year's Resolution you've messed up the whole entire year, but if it's a Daily Resolution you only messed up one day and still have the rest of the year to do better, one day at a time.

Do you want to hear about our snow? It turned out to be less than a dusting if that's possible. No winter wonderland here this morning. It's more like a heavy, heavy, heavy frost, in spots but we have another chance for more snow on Thursday, so there's still hope. Some places are having snow with very cold temps and we're having snow with mild above freezing temps which really makes a difference if you go out. It's not that cold here and just a heavy sweatshirt is fine outside.

I don't have any other news yet, but the day is just beginning and there are so many possibilities and chances for me to get into some kind of mischief. So until then, have a nice day and be nice and smile at everyone you meet even if they look mean and don't especially look like they want to smile back at you.

We saw the sun today....

The sun has been missing for most of the summer here, but today it showed up in all its glory. We even broke out in a sweat while clearing away and mulching some of the fallen leaves. We abandoned the rake and brought out the leaf blower and I used it for most of the time while Jimmy ran over my piles of leaves with the riding mower. We mostly worked in the back yard while our neighbor worked in our front yard.

Earlier in the day I heard a lawn mower in my front yard and looked out to see our neighbor sucking up our leaves into this great big white canvas bag that was attached to his riding mower. Jimmy was already out back using the leaf blower, so I got myself off the computer and went out to help. It was a beautiful sunny day and a day when I thought Jimmy might want to ride a little, but since he was having surgery he thought he'd better get the leaves taken care of first. Me, for one, thought that riding should be first on his agenda and I could run over and mulch the leaves on Saturday or even better, when they ALL FALL DOWN later in the week, but Jimmy doesn't like to wait. Our neighbor, Blonde Holt, is about Jimmy's age and likes to help Jimmy when he can...of course Jimmy also runs to his aide when he sees Blonde doing something that might require his help.




****Thomas Edward & Ruth Wallace****

While we were outside, Jimmy's brother Butch and his wife Ruth stopped by and brought us some of their home grown tomatoes. It's always nice to see them, but they're not too fond of my camera. I had to practically threaten them to get this picture. I think this is a very good picture of them and they don't know that I have a blog. Some day they, or one of their children, will run across this picture and be surprised to see it online.


Look how muddy! All it does is rain here and our driveway is in desperate need of some gravel. The driveway finally dried up a little today in the sun, but gravel is on the top of the list of things to be done. Sharon and Scott stopped short of the mud puddle and just parked their bikes there.

Scott is doing great and he has recovered faster than anyone of us thought he would. He's decided to go back to his construction job starting this coming Monday thanks to his Swedish Nurse, Nurse Ulna. Nurse Ulna has had Scott jogging a couple miles a day this week and after that Scott said he was ready to return to work. Nurse Ulna has once again worked her magic on Scott and he has become suddenly healed and ready to return to work. Good job Nurse Ulna!