By Vahe Gregorian, The Kansas City Star
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — From his home near Charlotte, N.C., Marty Schottenheimer gazes out a window at Lake Norman on a gorgeous 70-degree Thursday.
“It’s a magnificent setting,” he said. “Life is good.”
Nearby, as ever, is his wife, Pat, who keeps him laughing even as he’s on the phone.
He still can’t believe his fortune to have met her in Daytona Beach, Fla., way back in … 1965, she gently reminds him as he pauses.
“I can’t effectively tell you, maybe you know.