So many great memories spent working and learning alonside of Jim.  Around the age of 12, I began to hang out at the farm and was soon hired by Jim's father Henry.  Shortly afterwards Jim's father nicknamed me" Mumsy " and from then till now Jim seemed to have forgotten that I was "Jim",  too.  Whether on the farm, in his shop, or at Koopmans I would always hear "Hey Mums" from across the room.  I remember watching Jim throwing haybales onto the haywagon with one arm shooting a bale up at least 10 ft. in height with me hoping that one day I might be able to do the same.  Once I was with Jim riding home from a sawmill with a load of sawdust bedding for the cows with Jim happily singing Frank Wilson's 1964 hit "Last Kiss". Later on in my early farm career JIm gave me some good advice when I asked him how to tell his father that I only wanted to work six days a week.  Jim said "be a man and just tell him". That evening after dinner I did just what he said and low and behold I was out of a job.  After a month or so Jim would hire me back to milk for him so he could go out on a date earlier in the evening which eventually led to my being rehired by his father.  When Jim started selling fieldstones we'd always go out to the fields after dinner and work till dusk loading stones into the dump truck, teasing and laughing as we worked.  During the early years of All Steel Fabricating, Jim always had work for me.  He worked hard long hours including Saturdays.  During my college years I used to drive back from Andover early Saturday morning and be at the shop at 7:00am waiting for "Hello Mumsy" and a project to work on.  Many times Jim took me out and bought me lunch.  I throughly enjoyed working at the shop atmosphere and learning all facets of cutting, bending, punching and welding steel.  Jim had a strong work ethic but also was caring and compassionate and enjoyed great laughter most of which he instigated.  He was a man with a gererous smile who I will miss dearly.   Jim Kokernak ..... Grafton Ma.