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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton

"we often think of bygone days
when we were all together,
the family chain is broken now
but memories live forever.
to us he has not gone away
nor has he travelled far,
just entered god's eternal home
and left the gate ajar"

"a light from our family is gone,
a voice we loved is still,
a place is vacant in our lives,
which never can be filled;
your memory is our keepsake,
from which we will never part,
god has you in his keeping,
we have you in our hearts."

"silently the angels took daddy
into the mansion above.
there shall he rest from earth's til
safe in the arms of god's love."

"the blow was great
the shock severe
we little thought the end was near.
and only those who have lost can tell
the pain of heartache without farewell."

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland