{"id":14507,"date":"2021-05-04T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=14507"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:11:00","slug":"from-your-daughter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=14507","title":{"rendered":"From Your Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Eulogy read at Dad’s Celebration of Life dinner, November 22, 2015
<\/em>Obituary<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Dad on his 85th birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

My dearest Daddy,<\/p>\r\n

If I were to express all you mean to me, we\u2019d be here until at least Super Bowl 50, and since everyone here has to work tomorrow, I\u2019ll try to be brief.<\/p>\r\n

You made me feel special as your daughter in so many ways. From those first moments you held me as an infant with such a beautiful love, until the final kiss we shared in the hospital, I was blessed.<\/p>\r\n

You were a Daddy who not only eagerly tackled diaper duty, but you fed me, bathed me, and played with me. You expertly built a picket fence, reinforced with steel and concrete, at the Southwood Drive house so I couldn\u2019t toddle out into the street. You constructed a sturdy baby swing from a tree in the backyard.<\/p>\r\n

You brought me to Keansburg, Long Branch and Asbury Park, so I could have a big adventure on the kiddie rides. You took movies as Mom pulled me, giggling on the sled, as I experienced my first snow.<\/p>\r\n

Our trip to the Fontainebleau in Miami in the \u201966 Caddy when I was 4 is one of my fondest memories. Our 1982 vacation to Niagara Falls when I was 15 was reminiscent of that trip, just the three of us, though I helped steer that time\u2014instead of dozing or playing with Franklin the bunny in the back seat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"musicnotes-tiny\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\r\nPhotograph<\/strong>
Ringo Starr<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Ringo Starr – Photograph<\/a>