To My Wife and Still My Best Friend after 58 years……

Can you imagine the number of times she has listed to me practice, perform and still keeps me around?

During these many years I have been through twenty different instruments, five different teachers, one heart attack, cancer, global amnesia, blood clots, a brain concussion, five broken bones, an ablation in the heart, five dogs, nine cars, two motor cycles, four bicycles, one tooth extraction, three tuxedos…….and she still takes care of me. Talk about a supper hero!

Today is our 58th wedding anniversary and the only way I can show her my love and appreciation is to show it musically with an old video I put together many years ago.

If you are so inclined, send her an Email and let her know that we all appreciate her for her dedication to an old trumpet player.

 

kchidester@hotmail.com

 

Bruce was a member of the faculty at the University of Northern Iowa, School of Music in Cedar Falls from 1969 until his retirement in 1999. He has performed with many well-known entertainers such as Bob Hope, Jim Nabors, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Anita Bryant, Carman Cavalara, Victor Borgie, the Four Freshman, Blackstone the Magician, Bobby Vinton and John Davidson.