October 31, 1954 - February 13, 2008
It is with great sadness and tears that I write this post. Today, around noon San Francisco time we lost a great husband, a great father, a great son, a great friend to his long battle with Leukemia. My best friend of over 40 wonderful years (read here). Dany will be missed dearly by everyone he came in contact with.
I have never known somebody who was so well liked by so many people. Every restaurant he went to they got to know him by name. The hardware store, bank, deli, even the local city hall administrators knew him by name. I have been to hospitals at Stanford University & University of Minnesota with him and when he walked in the front door, many people would stop and say “Hey Dany, good to see you today, how ya feeling?” I’d always ask them about Dany, and they all told me, “We love this guy!”
Hey Dano, I love you and will always be there for Peggy and Bronson. I promise.
Memorial Services are probably on Sunday in Pescadero, CA. (20 minutes south of Half Moon Bay. I will update with address and time.
All Is Well
By Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
