Howard -Grampac

[lozzy1]

rip howard. thought are with friends and family xxx

[Beki]

Hi Beki

I thought I would send the eulogy my sister and I wrote for Howard. Maybe you could share it with his friends.

Thank you for all of your wonderful thoughts and prayers.

Mandy xo

Hello, we are Howards’ daughters, Rebecca and Amanda. Howard may not have been our father by birth but he has been a father to us for 26 years and we are certainly his daughters.

When we start out in this world there is a plan for us, a destiny, and part of our destiny was to have this amazingly kind man come into our lives and love us and our mother unconditionally.

Howard was a fairly quiet guy and very introspective and yet somehow he was larger than life. He was the life of the party at family gatherings, always made people laugh with his, shall we say, somewhat unusual sense of humour and had an endless well of love that he showed everyone he met.

He had amazing compassion for all living things and would never hurt anyone intentionally.

He was exceptionally smart and fascinated with space and physics. He studied these for fun. He could do anything he put his mind to and if he didn’t know how to fix something, he would always figure it out.

Above all of this, Howard was loved. By his co-workers, who always became his friends, by people he never met in person but had relationships with on different internet forums, by his brothers and sisters, his nieces and nephews, his wife, his daughters and son in laws, his grandchildren and all of his 4 legged children.

He was very much loved and this, over everything else, is the truest measure of the kind of man he was. The truest “gentle” man you will ever have met.

There are so many things that we will miss that we could probably stand here all day to tell you about them but the most important have to do with love.

We will miss the way he comforted us when in need, by a touch of our hair, a rub on the back or his heartfelt embrace. We will miss the way our children would stampede to the door to get the first hug when he came to visit and the look of pure heaven on his face when he got those hugs. We will miss picking up the phone and laughing until we cry because he is in one of his many character modes. We will miss the way he would look at us that showed us that he was proud of who we are and what we had done. Most of all, we will miss having the opportunity to just have him in the room with us and feel the peace that it brought to have him there.

To every life he touched, he tried to bring moments of joy and ease. It is those moments that have ensured he will live on in the hearts of those that were graced with knowing him.

For all that he has done, Howard has finally graduated from this course on life. We know he will continue on as the interminably gentle and joyous soul that is Howard. As Helen Keller said “What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

Grief is the price we pay for love. Howard will be missed ... but not forgotten. We thank you all for coming to celebrate his love and his life with us.

[GSDOWNER]

Originally Posted by Beki

Hi Beki

I thought I would send the eulogy my sister and I wrote for Howard. Maybe you could share it with his friends.

Thank you for all of your wonderful thoughts and prayers.

Mandy xo

Hello, we are Howards’ daughters, Rebecca and Amanda. Howard may not have been our father by birth but he has been a father to us for 26 years and we are certainly his daughters.

When we start out in this world there is a plan for us, a destiny, and part of our destiny was to have this amazingly kind man come into our lives and love us and our mother unconditionally.

Howard was a fairly quiet guy and very introspective and yet somehow he was larger than life. He was the life of the party at family gatherings, always made people laugh with his, shall we say, somewhat unusual sense of humour and had an endless well of love that he showed everyone he met.

He had amazing compassion for all living things and would never hurt anyone intentionally.

He was exceptionally smart and fascinated with space and physics. He studied these for fun. He could do anything he put his mind to and if he didn’t know how to fix something, he would always figure it out.

Above all of this, Howard was loved. By his co-workers, who always became his friends, by people he never met in person but had relationships with on different internet forums, by his brothers and sisters, his nieces and nephews, his wife, his daughters and son in laws, his grandchildren and all of his 4 legged children.

He was very much loved and this, over everything else, is the truest measure of the kind of man he was. The truest “gentle” man you will ever have met.

There are so many things that we will miss that we could probably stand here all day to tell you about them but the most important have to do with love.

We will miss the way he comforted us when in need, by a touch of our hair, a rub on the back or his heartfelt embrace. We will miss the way our children would stampede to the door to get the first hug when he came to visit and the look of pure heaven on his face when he got those hugs. We will miss picking up the phone and laughing until we cry because he is in one of his many character modes. We will miss the way he would look at us that showed us that he was proud of who we are and what we had done. Most of all, we will miss having the opportunity to just have him in the room with us and feel the peace that it brought to have him there.

To every life he touched, he tried to bring moments of joy and ease. It is those moments that have ensured he will live on in the hearts of those that were graced with knowing him.

For all that he has done, Howard has finally graduated from this course on life. We know he will continue on as the interminably gentle and joyous soul that is Howard. As Helen Keller said “What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

Grief is the price we pay for love. Howard will be missed ... but not forgotten. We thank you all for coming to celebrate his love and his life with us.

will never forget you howard xx

[Billy Sitch]

The eulogy is beautiful and brought a tear to my eye. What a wonderful man he was.

[LOVEGSD]

What a beautiful eulogy and made me cry, RIP Howard...xxx

[mog]

A beautiful eulogy for a special man. R.I.P. Howard.

[Overlook]

I feel so awful as so self absorbed over the last year with one thing and another and have only just seen this.

Having read The Lovely Bones more than once I can only surmise that his particular heaven is filled with more dog's than we can imagine and that Keerah is heading the pack.

RIP