Peter Schwerdtfeger (1935 - 2013)

remembering my father

I was asked today to contribute a paragraph about my late Papa for a local website. The fifty word limit proved a bit of a challenge, given the breadth of his interests and his charismatic character, so I am re-publishing the words I read at his funeral.

My father, Peter Schwerdtfeger, known to me as Pa, his grandchildren as Opa, to his friends as Peter …