he had joked at school about not being able to remember all his kids ' names , but the order of their passing was engraved on his memory : jeff on the twenty-second , marty and helen on the twenty-third , his wife harriett and bill and george , jr. , and robert and stan on the twenty-fourth , richard on the twenty-fifth , danny on the twenty-seventh , three-year-old frank on the twenty-eighth , and finally pat - and pat had seemed to be getting better , right up to the end .