In Praise of the Nicest Man
You Would Ever Know
by Lonn Taylor
S
tory teller, exceptional writer and Cenizo
contributor Perry Cozzen died June 28,
2018. We will miss him.
Perry Cozzen was the nicest man you would
ever know. He was kind, caring, thoughtful, and
generous. He was slightly old-fashioned in a
courtly sort of way. He stood up when ladies
came into the room, pulled their chairs out for
them at tables, and took his hat off when he sat
down to eat. He was a small man, slightly bent
over but infused with wiry strength, honed by
moving irrigation pipe on his family’s cotton
farm near Lamesa every morning before breakfast
in his adolescent years. What we will all remem-
ber about him was his smile. It covered his whole
face, crinkled his cheeks, lit up his eyes, and wrin-
kled his forehead. It was often accompanied by a
contagious, cackling laugh. Perry Cozzen was a
happy man, and it made people happy just to be
around him.
by Lonn Taylor, for the Big Bend Sentinel
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