• Wildomar Loses One of the Good Ones

Sad news hits the Wildomar community. 

Kirk Schrader, long time fixture as groundskeeper at the cemetery, has died.

He'd worked at the cemetery since 1998.

I happened to know him long before knowing he worked in Wildomar. We played baseball on the same beer league baseball team from 2003 to 2007. 

October 2013 at Windsong Park, the day before The Great Day of Service.

He always had that ZZ Top beard as long as I knew him, and that was the nickname that most of the guys on the team called him, ZZ Top.

He wasn't a very tall man, but he was no shrinking violet to be sure. A fearless leader when put into that roll, and an outstanding shortstop too. A person with a good outlook on life, that didn't seem to get bogged down by a lot of nonsense.

Years after we played our last game together I happened to meet him the day before the 2013 Great Day of Service (photo above), at Windsong park. 

Since that happy reunion, I'd see him a couple of times a year at park events, and it was always great to relive past glories.

As it happens, this was from the first edition of Wildomar Rap that covered a local event.
Link to that long forgotten blog.

I've not heard of any funeral plans at this point.
He'll be missed. Condolences to his family and friends.