"Mr. Messick’s speech was slurred from what we were told was a stroke. Strangely enough, while he was unable to actually form sentences, he was still able to make the “noise” of Scooby Doo. He was wearing a Scooby tie and he communicated with each of us by pointing to the Great Dane and muttering a little “thank you” in Scooby-speak. It came out as “Rank roo” but it was touching and warm, and I heard someone say, “Don made Scooby talk all those years…and now Scooby is helping Don to express himself."