Thursday, February 1, 2024
My family and I have been absolutely blessed to have had John living across the street from us for the past 23 years. He watched how our family grew and, as a result, he has been a part of our daughters’ entire lives, from birth to now at the ages of 19 and 21. Our girls do not know life without John across the street and I am so saddened that we have to adjust to this new reality. John was like no other. Not only would he chat with us whenever he saw us and always ask about what was going on in our lives at the time, he was also a huge presence in our girls’ lives, taking our younger daughter fishing for the first time, clipping out newspaper articles that mentioned them and their tennis teams when they were playing high school tennis, and coming to their tennis matches and cheering them on. He would often get to the matches before me, and I would love to watch how he would applaud every time my daughters made a great shot. That is a memory I will forever cherish. There are not many people like this in the world and I feel God blessed us for putting us in John's path. He has taught us that, however few there are, there are some really special and good people in this world. John was certainly one of them and he will be forever missed by us all.
