Bernie was an avid gardener and loved planting tomatoes and zucchini among other vegetables. And he loved his tomatoes the most right up to the last season. He was also very active in Ham and mainly CB radio hobby and his reputation in the greater Louisville area as “Rounder” is widely known. In his spare time, he built 100’s of linear amplifiers for CB radios from old TV parts and sold them to fellow CB’ers for years. He loved playing computer Scrabble to keep his mind sharp with a good vocabulary. He also was quite the tinkerer and spent hours in his garage fixing things and working on other projects and always came up with innovative ways to solve everyday problems. He worked on his yard till his final days at home, mowing, trimming and grooming and kept up flowers till he moved to The Franciscan. 

I knew Elmer as Rounder on the citizens band radio and started talking to him in the late 1990s and then really got to know him as a person in 2016 and as I got to know him he was no different in person as he was on the cb radio, he's since of humor so so dry you couldn't really tell if he was cutting up with you or upset with you, he was definitely hard to read at times and didn't like to be harped on if you was just trying to help him and he was a very Independent person and thrived by himself and did so all the way up until 3 year's before he passed away, I loved you're personality for what it and you was and that's funny because you was a funny personality on the cb radio to me and you made good memories for us all and for that I thank you from my cb radio to yours rounder, till we put the key down on our microphones again rounder I'll see you on the other side,,,73s my friend BULLDOG JR. got down 

Most funniest and sassiest Uncle I know! He will be missed. He would always open his home to us “Ohioans” when we come down to Louisville. He would host Christmas parties. So much laughter.   Shoot cans in the backyard. And we all would watch the security cameras live feed of the shenanigans happening in the alley, most cats or a car driving by. I would giggle lis￼tening to him talk on his CB radio to the passing Truckers. Rounder, Rounder.. Snowman out there?!? The smell of him emptying his colonoscopy bag and he just kept on truckin’ and livin’ life with his motorcyles, cool cars and sweet ladies. Loved how he visited Ricky often and made him light up. Making chili Bernie would eat for a whole week. Living the bachelor dream watching tv on his larger than life sized telly “cuz (he) didn’t want to buy glasses”. 

 Raise a can of Diet Pepsi to Jesus for us, Uncle Bernie!!

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Elmer "Hoppy" Block

9 October, 1932 – 29 April, 2023

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