Heinrich Yogi Bear Boeglin

Carving by John Schipp
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Heinrich is Grandma Mary Jo's baby brother who came along when she had already started her own family so she generally raised him right along with her own kids. He is the brother-in-law who, as Grandpa Leroy not so diplomatically always put it; came to dinner and never left. He has NEVER missed a dinner... or any other meal!
The adults in the family all call him Uncle Heinrich, the kids in the family all call him Uncle Yogi, his work friends and drinking buddies always call him Bear and the local constabulary just call him when they need HELP!!! Very Special Deputy Boeglin tips the scales at an even 25 stone and stands a solid five foot seventeen, so he is of considerable help when he sets his mind to it.
With a name like Boeglin you would think that everyone would have picked up on the obvious moniker of Bo but life is funny that way... clearly Bear was so apropos that it simply blew all the other possible candidates away!
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