Yes, I loved the Colonel as well. It seems to me that there is a theme of memory running through the book - Bradbury's memories of his childhood and the town in which he was a boy, but also the memories of the Colonel, which died with him, and those of the other old people in the book, Helen Loomis, Mrs Bentley, and Great-Grandma. Great-Grandma telling Doug:
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"I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family."
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Her immortality would be her descendants, but also of course their memories of her.