It's funny how some things have a way of coming back again. When I was in high school I played the guitar and was in a rock and roll band.

Every place I went there was a guitar strapped to my back! As the years went by I continued to play the guitar but less frequently. Eventually I hardly ever picked it up and went several years without playing at all!

Then one day at church, about two years ago, someone came up to me and said, " I heard you play the guitar, how about doing a song together for Sunday Service?"(I don't know who told him I played guitar, but I am thankful to that person!)

Now I am once again playing in a band. It's not a rock and roll band, it's a church Praise Band but I am having a ball! We practice every week and play every Monday night at a special church service. We also play frequently on Sundays at church and sometimes at a retirement home.

I also play a mountain dulcimer and harmonica in the band. The music never left me, it just needed to be awakened again!

We play your standard hymns and some contemporary Christian music as well as original tunes. We work in a lot of old rock and roll songs but change the lyrics around for the church crowd.

For example, we play Amazing Grace to the tune of the House of the Rising Sun. We also play Proud Mary but with new Christian lyrics.

My fingers used to cramp up from artheritis frequently; however, since I have been playing the guitar again they hardly ever bother me anymore!

Sorry...I didn't mean to ramble on and on about this, just thought I would share this with you.

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Gregory F. Truchsess Gregory F. Truchsess, age 59, died Thursday, July 24, 2008, after a courageous battle with pancre-atic/liver cancer. Born May 19, 1949, to Warren and Agatha Truchsess in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was raised in Danbury. In 1970, he joined the U.S. Army Reserve National Guard and was quickly awarded the rank of first lieutenant. Upon finishing his tour of duty, Greg began his 30 year career in the graphic arts/prepress industry. In 1970, he went to work for Dow Jones - Ottaway News Papers Inc/Danbury News Times. After 12 years as a night foreman, he transferred his job to The Times Herald Record, in Middletown, N.Y. It was in 1982, that he moved his family to Otisville, N.Y. Shortly after moving, Greg branched out and went to work for AGFA Corp, in Teteboro, N.J. For the next 15 years, he worked as an account manager and later on became a technical manager for the entire New York City and New England Area. In 2000, Greg moved to Orlando, Fla., to fulfill his dream of being a boat me-chanic/private fishing captain. He wanted to spend his remaining years at work, doing something he loved, which was being on the water and fishing. In August 2002, Greg married Linda Mattina and they moved to New Port Richey, Fla. He is survived by his wife, Linda Truchsess of New Port Richey, Fla.; mother, Agatha Truchsess of Clearwater, Fla.; father- in-law, Tony Mattina; sister, Diana Truchsess of Nagatuck; son, Vincent Truchsess of River Edge, N.J.; son, Wayne Truchsess and wife, Patricia of Worcester, Mass.; daughter, Denise Stern and husband, Lawrence of Harriman, N.Y.; grandchildren, Sebastiana and Michael Truchsess of Worcester, Mass. and Victoria Stern of Harriman, N.Y. Funeral services will be held in the Green Funeral Home, 57 Main St., Danbury, Thursday July 31, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in St. Peter Cemetery. Friends may call in the Green Funeral Home, Thursday from 10:30 to 11: 30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718 in memory of Gregory Truchsess.

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