Here's another obit from a large family, and as it happens, I went to school with his oldest daughter. Didn't realize she came from such a huge family. Not so many as the mormon family--evidently my generation put the brakes on the huge families. There are a few tall stories included in this obit. I'm including only the first couple of paragraphs.

Patrick Henry Caudle, age 87, died peacefully at home on January 27, 2006. He had just put on his hat and boots, after telling family members he was ready to go home.
He was husband to the one love of his life, Clara; father to ten children; grandfather to 26; great-grandfather to 44; and great-great-grandfather to four more. He is loved by every one of them. Most would show up for numerous celebrations of holidays, anniversaries, and birthday parties at his home. A favorite holiday was St. Patrick's Day when Pat would grow a beard and dye it green. He was born in Davenport, Washington, to Manlove Graham and Mary Alice Caudle on March 17, 1918. He weighed only two and one half pounds, slept in a shoe box, and was fed coffee and whiskey to keep his little body going. When he was 12, his mom and dad packed up Pat and his seven older siblings, Sid, Claude, Graham, John, Willard, Frances, and Effie, and moved to Cashmere, Washington, for a year and then settled in Everett. As a child he picked apples, milked the cow, and taught himself the harmonica. He often played at the Grange dances he loved to attend and he continued to play the Harmonica masterfully his entire life. From amateur radio shows, to impromptu concerts, to last Christmas's family gathering, his music entertained everyone.

SRS