My friend Andy Herko – I guess you could call him my brother-in-law – passed away last week. He was only fifty years old.

I went back to Buffalo last weekend to attend his services, which were filled with love and stories. Andy was an exquisite man.

We shared some eccentric, generations-old musical tastes, one evening driving at least one relative out of his living room after playing Helen Reddy’s “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” a half dozen times.

Family members have set up a GoFundMe site in his honour “to help ensure that his daughter has financial assistance for her future success.”

Ken Catalino drew the amazing portrait of Andy.