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In reply to the discussion: My dad was buried today, he passed last Friday ... [View all]marble falls
(69,107 posts)7. Thank you. he was one of the good ones. Whole bunch of family history questions I thought there was still time to ask.
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        Thank you. he was one of the good ones. Whole bunch of family history questions I thought there was still time to ask.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #7
      
        
        My test was through a Mormon associated company, I do trust the Mormons. But you and I are ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #124
      
        
        Basically to offer anyone who ever lived and is alive the oportunity to join the LDS.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #130
      
        
        I am so sorry for your loss.  It sounds as if he was as wonderful a human as he was a Dad.
        LoisB
        Feb 2025
        #8
      
        
        He was indeed. He started a day care center in Phoenix in the late seventies that is still running ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #10
      
        
        That car spent at least six months last year waiting lots for parts. I am so angry with Ford.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #13
      
        
        We're scattered, but the ceremonies were today, We're going back next or the month after.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #53
      
        
        He was 94, his B-day was Feb 3. He failed very quickly, just a few weeks. The thing to keep in one's heart is: ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #42
      
        
        Well, this has brought it home to me: at 74, solo road trips are no longer on the menu ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #43
      
        
        He put his time in, was very productive and now he rests. It's all good news.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #45
      
        
        Very fortunate, this is my step-dad and he took in three kids with my mom and had three more. He was ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #61
      
        
        Very sorry to hear of your loss. Can only imagine the frustration with all the other stuff. Glad you have fond memories
        Evolve Dammit
        Feb 2025
        #34
      
        
        My sympathies. Very glad to hear he was good man, and will be cherished.
        electric_blue68
        Feb 2025
        #37
      
        
        It's shame that the times have changed so much that we have to be careful about actions we'd have done ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #58
      
        
        I smile everytime I say something and I realized I heard it before, when he said it to me first.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #56
      
        
        So sorry for your loss marble falls.   Sorry also that you had the problems with your car and could not be there.  That
        KPN
        Feb 2025
        #57
      
        
        My dad started seeing/speaking to my late mother a few months ago. I knew was starting to transition to the next plane.
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #62
      
        
        I'm so sorry that you lost your dad.  Sorry, too, that you weren't able to be there
        highplainsdem
        Feb 2025
        #73
      
        
        I am sorry your Dad passed and that you couldn't be at his funeral, marble falls.
        Diamond_Dog
        Feb 2025
        #80
      
        
        It's been a different last two weeks. Two weeks ago we had a surgeon claiming a little surgery on a heart valve ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #107
      
        
        You are blessed by the empathy of the father who loved you and who lived it with loving effort toward children.
        ancianita
        Feb 2025
        #83
      
        
        A great dad and a step dad to boot. You never EVER heard the word step in house in relation to children ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #116
      
        
        I've driven through El Paso many, many times. It's always been something almost every time ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #115
      
        
        We've made a mistake in impugning away people's honest wishes because RW others are shallow and hypocrites ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #114
      
        
        "We as a family are more glad of knowing him than sad he's passed: he'll never be gone."
        Trueblue Texan
        Feb 2025
        #100
      
        
        A lot of our lives were about the cars. He chammied his car every Saturday after mowing the yard ...
        marble falls
        Feb 2025
        #111