When country singer Glen Campbell diedfrom Alzheimer’s diseaseon Aug. 8, 2017, his widow Kim had already begun to come to terms with the loss.
Now, on the two-year anniversary of his death, Kim is announcing the opening ofThe Glen Campbell Museumin Nashville, set for next year. Yet as she begins to organize his archives and relive their life together, a sense of loss has also returned.
“When I touch his clothes and when I look at the pictures of us together, it’s heart-wrenching for me, because I miss him every single day,” she says. But there’s also a purpose behind it. Says Kim, “I feel like it’s a way to honor him, and I want to do everything I can to preserve his legacy and to share it with future generations.”
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“There were so many great suits made for him,” Kim recalls. “I love all the crazy embroidered bell-bottomed outfits that he wore with the big belt in the ’70s. We have so much great memorabilia. It’s kind of a sexy museum if you ask me.”
“They’re all so talented, so it’s fun to have them involved in the museum giving their input,” Kim says. “Hopefully they’ll be performing there some!”
A portion of ticket proceeds from the museum will go towardAbe’s Garden, the memory care facility where Glen lived during his final years, and the Kim & Glen Campbell Foundation, which funds music therapy efforts.
Now that Glen has been gone two years, Kim says she has found healing with the memories she shares with their children.
“He had an incredible sense of humor, and throughout our days, something will remind us, and we go, ‘If Dad were here, he would say this,'” Kim says. “So we still enjoy his sense of humor — even though he’s not here, we still hear him saying it.”
And she’ll always cherish those thoughts.
“I think about his arms around me as a loving husband and my best friend. He told me every single day how much he loved me,” she says. “He overcame so much. When I met him, he was an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. He overcame all of that and became the best father and husband I could’ve ever imagined.”
source: people.com
