Doug Vassall
On the evening of June 2nd 2015 the crowd carried a birthday cake covered with flaming candles out to the dark yard where Beth was sitting while singing Happy Birthday in a wide variety of keys and tempos.
She took a deep breath and blew almost all of them out, but she didn’t want to stop before the job was done so she gave one last POOF from the depth of her lungs and got the last one. She gasped because that last POOF caused her to inhale the cloud of smoke above the cake, but she had completed her task.
The next morning Doug and Beth returned to the hospital to visit their Dad, Douglas L Vassall Sr.