Brad’s parents, Wanda and Scott, step Mom Diane and our entire extended families, held Brad’s reviewal, funeral church service and celebration of life event the past couple of days here in Rochester, Minnesota. While it was cold and snowing outside, it was warm and glowing inside wherever we went. The services and reviewal were all beautiful, respectful, and a wonderful time to honor Brad’s life and memories of many wonderful moments with Brad. At the celebration of life event, we shared food and drink, photos, videos and hundreds of memorable moments everyone had with Brad. We want to thank everyone who was able to attend the past two days and be with us for support, fellowship and friendship. Also, those of you that could not attend shared your thoughts, memories, Facebook, email and personal video tributes and well wishes which we appreciate so very much. Thank you.

Cathy and I created a video with some of our photos and memories of Brad and our family and we wanted to share it with you. If you would like to watch it, just click here to download it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmbolajhw6l0dxj/Brads%20Celebration%20Final%20720P.m4v?dl=0

Our family would like to sincerely thank all of you who contributed or donated to Brad’s situation either personally or via the GoFundMe page. It was astounding to see such an outpouring of love and friendship. We are all truly touched by your kindness. We also were amazed to see so many of our friends the past few days, some of who had never met Brad, but knew of our love and commitment to him as our son, brother, nephew, uncle or grandson. Seeing all of Wanda and Scott’s families and extended families and sharing our hugs and tears was so special and meaningful. Watching and reading the words and messages from Brad’s worldwide travel friends was also so incredibly special. Thanks to each of you so much for your kinds words and strong support from around the World.

The family would also like to give our special thanks to Dean, Ann and Keio for taking care of Brad in New Zealand after his illness struck until our family arrived, the Whangarei and Auckland City Hospitals in New Zealand for their excellent care of Brad, nurse Diane for her excellent skills helping care for Brad, the staff and doctors of Mayo Clinic, the Davis Funeral Service in Auckland, American Airlines, the Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Home, Pastor Anjanette Bandel and the Bethel Lutheran Church and Pasquale’s Neighborhood Pizzeria all in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Their support and services were amazing and we appreciate everything they did for Brad and our family during this incredibly difficult time.

                             Brad, We love you dearly and will always miss you.