Thank you for your and your Mom's thoughtfulness in sending the heartfelt message of your Dad's passing from this world to the next, Andy. We send good thoughts and prayers for you and your Mom and the others in your family, plus others who cared deeply for your Dad, at this difficult time. May your hours together during the coming days, when you remember your father with gratitude and praise, build an even deeper feeling of love and trust among you. If there may have been some differences between some family emmbers, I hope that, rather than being exacerbated by the raw emotions of this time, that they may find healing. When we honour and respect someone who held an important place in our lives, one of the greatest tributes that we can offer is to choose to live various aspects of our lives in a similar fashion. Perhaps interpreted in different ways, relating to changes in the modern world ... I had never travelled over 30 miles from home until I was 17, just after World War II, when tires and gas were rationed. My farmer Dad, having bronchitis and asthma problems, moved about 1,600 miles from this area to farm on the Prairies, where he enjoyed 40 years of healthy living. While I went to University and seminary, and travelled by ship for 18 days out of sight of land, travelling to Korea to help clean up the mess after the Korean War, including helping some of hundreds of thousands of refugees get their lives back in some semblance of order. When I told Dad that I was considering such, and he said that it seemed so far away, I referred Dad to his credo that when our neighbour was having trouble, we went to help, which partly motivated me. I have often heard family members say, at a gathering when someone had passed away, that it seemed as though the only time that the family got together was when someone married, or died. On Saturday I attended the 110th reunion of my father's family, with about 100 present and within a couple of weeks travel to Saskatchewan where my retired farmer brother will host a reunion of upward of 100 of Mom's family on what was Dad's farm. And I'm hoping to visit a few KT members along the route through MI, WI, MN and ND. Again, the hearts of many here at the KT, as you have seen above, go out to all of you in your family at this time, while you remember your Dad's life with thankfulness, and mourn your loss, together. Many here think of your mother with affection. ((((((Brenda, Andy, families and friends)))))). May God's grace and peace fill your hearts at this time of sorrow, Andy. ole joyful

Thanks for posting the guestbook - I just signed it. Maybe someone can let Brenda know that, for $80, she can make it an eternal guestbook - it will never be deleted. The entries will be deleted in 12 months, otherwise. I eternalized my dear husband's guestbook - now, family and friends can go and write their thoughts forever and they will be saved.

woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that should make his recouperation from bronchitus easier! lol I'm surprised his oncologist hasn't run an PetScan.. or mri!

I'm joining in with the prayers, too. Hoping you will have a full recovery. From the sounds of things, if anyone can do it, you can, Brenda.....so keep on fighting the good fight. Your son and all your loved ones are counting on it as is everyone at the KT!