DOUGLAS
MacMILLAN CHERRY: Bengals All the Way
The shoes always told Douglas MacMillan Cherry's
secret. Only a devout Cincinnati Bengals fan would be
seen in a pair of orange Converse sneakers painted with
black tiger stripes. Sure, people stared. But Mr. Cherry
did not care. The Bengals were the team he learned to
love as boy growing up in Cincinnati. When he could steal
a few days away from his job at AON Insurance, Mr. Cherry
would even fly back to Cincinnati to watch his Bengals
play.
He loved only one thing more, his family, his wife,
Sarah, and their children, Emma, Isabel and Jack. "He
loved his family and he loved the Bengals. That was his
life," said Burns Patterson, his brother-in-law. At a
makeshift memorial created near his home in Maplewood,
N.J., friends posted a letter to honor Mr. Cherry. "We
all know the one thing Doug would have wanted from us. We
will always take care of Emma, Isabel and Jack," the
letter read. It then made a disparaging, though
affectionate, reference to the Bengals.
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