Posted by finnegan at alb-24-195-56-35.nycap.rr.com on June 02, 2003 at 20:47:45:
In Reply to: Go give your father's a hug, if you can posted by Kevin on June 01, 2003 at 23:10:01:
: I'd hug mine if I could.
: My father died very unexpectedly this morning around 5:30-6:00 a.m, suffering a massive
: heart attack. He'd just turned sixty seven on May 22nd.
: Very emotional day, to say the least.
: Pop meant the world to me. The man was an excellent father and directly responsible for
: my interest in movies, having taken me out of school early on Wednesdays to hit bargain
: matinees when I was a kid. A quiet man who only spoke when he had something funny or
: insightful to say, my sister often insisted he was the basis for Silent Bob. He'd survived
: congestive heart failure a few months back, and rallied quite nicely to better health and a
: more robust zeal for living than he'd had in years.
: Fortunately, thanks to Wizard World this weekend, my entire immediate family was already
: gathered in the same place at the same time - a feat rarely achieved over the last ten years.
: My sister and her husband, who live in Hong Kong, were in town, and my Dad, Mom and
: brother had flown up from Florida to see the Convention and my sis and me. Last night,
: me, Jen, Mom, Dad, Don, Virgina and Eric had a great dinner at Morton's - talking, laughing,
: and shooting the shit. If he had to go, he chose the best time to do it, surrounded by the
: children he raised, their spouses, and the woman he loved and spent nearly every day of the
: past forty one years beside. In this way, he died as he lived: generously and on everyone
: else's schedule.
: I love you, Pop. I'll miss the hell out of you.