I served with a Paul Chan in the USAF @ Kincheloe AFB in 75/77

If this is the same person, I have a few fun stories!!

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Chris Pfeiffer

I like to remember Paul, the boy.   He was a solid kid, big for his age. He liked the outdoors. [My siblings, Roger, Lesley and I lived with our paternal grandparents in Georgetown, the Capital of Guyana, during our adolescent and teenage years, while our two younger siblings, Mark and Bryan, lived with our parents in Retrieve, Mackenzie.

Roger, Lesley and I attended Primary school and High school in Georgetown, and we always looked forward to coming to Mackenzie during school breaks to our parents.   We would visit Uncle Willmott and Aunt Meigan, who lived in Watooka, Mackenzie.

The majority of the residence in Mackenzie worked for the Guyana Bauxite Company.]

I remembered Paul camping with friends in Richmond Hill (a wooded, hilly residential area in Mackenzie, no more than a half of a mile from Watooka), and Aunt Meigan and I taking supplies for them one night. Tent was pitched and they already had the fire going.

Uncle Willmott and family lived on water-front property on the Demerara River and he had a speed boat.  While he was at work one day, all Paul's idea and I can't swim, we took the speed boat into town and back before he returned home.

Did Paul spend time with us in Georgetown? Yes.  Paul was a strong kid.   I remembered one of us may have dared him and he picked up one of the dining-room chairs, used the legs as a 4-point dagger and rammed them in the wall of one of the bedrooms and bore a large hole. You can just imagine how upset Granddad was, when he came home. We all got punished [in those days punishment was not time-out; we got flogged with a leather belt, and it hurt and left marks on your skin.]

Paul was just a normal kid who was adventurous and enjoyed doing daring things, like camping around wild life, water sports and boring holes in walls, and eventually turned out to be the man he became - a provider for his Family, a husband and Dad, who loved and cared for his wife and children, someone who anyone would be proud of.

Our sincere condolences go out to Charlotte, and their children, Gabriel, Geiselle, Karl and Nick, and his Father, Wilmott and Paula, his siblings, Hazel, Debbie, Andie, Alicia and Yonnette, and the rest of the Chan Family, too many to mention.

Good bye our cousin until we meet again. May you rest in eternal peace.

I’m very sad.  My friend Paul called me DB and I called him PC.  He has mentored me for many years how to run a Bakery.   In the facilities and on the Golf course.  We shared our thoughts in good times and in bad times.  Professionals and personally. 

My family and I will miss him very much!

PC. Till we meet again.