This past month was so hard for Dad.  He began to have increased pain due to the cancer spreading to his bones.  These past two weeks he also started to exhibit some signs/symptoms due to the mass on his brain.  

This past Friday, we admitted Dad to the in-patient Hospice Unit at St. Elizabeth.  Since Saturday morning, he has been comfortable and essentially out of pain.  

Today...at 2:30pm, Dad passed away peacefully.  He will now be forever without pain and that horrible cancer.  He is now with Mom.  He told me last Thursday evening that he did not want her to be alone anymore.  Well...she's not.  I cannot even begin to imagine the excitement, when at 2:30 this afternoon, in Heaven when they saw each other again.  This past Saturday, September 28th, was their 51st Wedding Anniversary.  How amazing that they are wishing each other "Happy Anniversary" right now.  

There aren't enough words to tell you how much we will miss him.  He was the most sweetest, caring and loving man.  He loved us fiercely (and his grand-babies twice that!).  We will carry on his legacy every day.  

Thank you for being the best Dad and Papaw ever.  Tell Mom we love her and miss her.  

"Well done Good and Faithful Servant"