Larry Payne and his wife Pat were married for over 50 years and shared a wonderful life together. When Pat recently died from breast cancer, Larry was devastated but he wanted to do something to honor her and decided to build a bridge over a small creek in the local cemetery. He put his “heart and soul into it” and added one feature that’s caught a few people off guard – a pink roof.
“Had a lady the other day say, ‘Well I don’t like the pink,’” Larry told KHQA. “And I said, ‘Well, maybe you just don’t understand that pink is the cancer is what that means.’”
Larry thinks his wife would have liked it too. “You know she’s smiling. I know she’s smiling. And she had one of the prettiest smiles…that’s what I said. I love my wife and there’s nobody that loves anybody anymore than I do her,” Larry said.
Pat and Larry’s daughter Christine is proud of her father’s “awesome tribute”. What a simple but touching gesture for the love of his life.
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