SALT LAKE CITY — I’m not one who often reads obituaries. Though I’m getting up there, I am not quite to the age where I make the grandpa-approved joke that I read obituaries to see if I’m in there.
I made an exception this weekend for Gerald Eugene (aka Jerry) Sloan.
I’m glad I did.
There are some neat things to be learned in Sloan’s obituary, which was published this weekend following his death on Friday.
Sloan valued relationships and was fortunate to find love twice — first with his wife of 41 years, Bobbye, his high school sweetheart who passed away in 2004, and then with Tammy Jessop, whom he met in 2005 and married in 2006.