In the last 20 years, many teenagers in Juneau took their driving test with Reynaldo Caparas, known to most as Uncle Rey.
Known to most as Uncle Rey, Reynaldo Caparas was a beloved member of the Juneau community. We are collecting your memories of him and sharing them with the family and on this page. Tell us how you will remember him.Taking your driver’s test is a rite of passage. But if you’re like most people, you might not remember much about it except maybe the parallel parking.
Caparas was born in 1955 in Manila, Philippines. When he was a young man in his 20s he got a job on a cruise ship, first as a line cook and then as an entertainer. He eventually landed a job with the state at the DMV, where he worked for 20 years making people laugh in one of the most unlikely places.“And he brought it into the DMV,” she said. “And he would place it in random spots in the office when there was like a long line. And my dad had the little remote and he would like play it, and it sounded like someone farted in the corner. And my dad thought that was so, so funny.
About 10 years ago, his daughter says, he started eating really healthy. He stopped eating pork and white rice — staples of Filipino food. He switched to brown rice and fish, and he exercised a lot. But there’s some comfort in blaming COVID for his death, she says. It’s just something to kind of explain the suddenness of it, which is so hard to process.
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