a celebration of life

[LBrown59]

My dad died this week. It would be unfair for me to mourn. Here was a man who lived 93 years. He was happily married to the same woman for 67 years. He was able to retire at 45 and then went sailing until he was 85. So with all the suffering in the world it would be churlish for me to be too upset.

That doesn't mean I won't miss him. He lived in England whilst I moved to the States so the saturday morning phone call was the major source of communicating. I dont think I can remember him ever being really cross, but that phone call was the time to lock horns on politics. We were diametrically opposed but I'll let you guess which pole we occupied

Sorry To hear about your dad.
My dad would be 94 if he were still alive.
He died in 1980 at the tender age of 65 from brain cancer.
My dad's been gone for 29 years .
A long time but the memories are still there.

 

[kthompson]

deereman, sorry for your loss. I lost my Dad when I was 16 soon to be 40 years ago. Even yesterday I thought of him and how much I miss him. Lost my Mom 2 years ago at 87. I have learned it matters not their age, we miss them and I am so thankful for that cause it means they made an positive impact in our life. For the last two years have been doing some major work at my father in law's pond who God called home soon to be 9 years ago and about ever day when I walk away from it I look toward Heaven wondering what he thinks of it now. Even in the best of man's life spans this life is so short. It truly is a vapor.

tuboat, so well said and so true.

Lord help me be the man my Grandchildren can walk in my footprints.

 

[deere755]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Sounds like your Dad led the kind of life most of us dream of, and that is something you can be thankful for. God bless you and your Dad.

 

[Sackett2]

Somehow missed this thread, sorry for dragging it up again.
Its been 1.5 years since we lost my brother, and every day I think of him. His passing has made me hypersensitive to the loss of others. Our family had been blessed with no major/unexpected deaths in all my life, just the normal passing of the elderly and a few cousins we didn't know.
Now i worry about loosing my parents, and wondering how to cope when they do leave.
I enjoy every day with Dad (73) and mom (69) but see the effects of age hitting them. Dad loves my tractor.. I call it "tractor therapy"

This Forum has also been good for me. As a whole, I have never been part of a on-line group that had so much compassion for people you only know on-line.
thank you all.
Steve