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ashling

(25,771 posts) Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:55 AM Nov 2017

My dad died 19 years ago

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Nov 28, 1998

I still miss him ... I still think of things I need to ask him and stuff

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My dad died 19 years ago (Original Post) ashling Nov 2017 OP

I've been doing family stories genealogy and wish my mom was still here so I could applegrove Nov 2017 #1

my dad is almost 94 dweller Nov 2017 #2

My dad left us in 2000 MFM008 Nov 2017 #3

So did mine. On this day, November 27th. DFW Nov 2017 #5

I am 76 and my father died years ago.... chillfactor Nov 2017 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author rogerballard Nov 2017 #6

I think that we never really get over the loss of a parent. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #7

My Dad died on November 30, 1990 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #8

I lost my dad six years ago, I miss him all the time. dewsgirl Nov 2017 #9

Mom died 41 years ago. Too Young. Still miss her. So much left unsaid. Fla Dem Nov 2017 #10

applegrove

(118,734 posts)

1. I've been doing family stories genealogy and wish my mom was still here so I could

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:19 AM

Nov 2017

get more from her. Her mother was the storyteller in the family but my mom knew more than me.

dweller

(23,648 posts)

2. my dad is almost 94

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:20 AM

Nov 2017

and his older brother 95... talking to them is a whole nother experience....
I know once they are gone I will have to find other voices to find the insight that generation experienced... frail voices but straight stories, both WWII vets...

MFM008

(19,818 posts)

3. My dad left us in 2000

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:14 AM

Nov 2017

Aged 69. I see and talk to him in my dreams.
You will always miss them and wish....

DFW

(54,422 posts)

5. So did mine. On this day, November 27th.

Reply to MFM008 (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:32 AM

Nov 2017

My mom called me from Washington on the 21st and said if I wanted a last visit, I had better get over to the States quickly. I asked like tomorrow? She said no, but definitely that weekend. I booked a flight for Saturday, the 25th, leaving back for Germany the 28th. On Sunday, the 26th, he was weak, but still joking around. Monday morning, he was gone. My mom was sure he summoned energy from some unknown place in order to hang on long enough to see me one last time.

She hung on for a year and a half after that, got breast cancer and suffered two strokes, the second of which killed her, but she had told me long before that that she didn't see a lot of reasons to stick around without him. They had been married for 50 years, and the world seemed only half there for her after he was gone.

chillfactor

(7,578 posts)

4. I am 76 and my father died years ago....

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:18 AM

Nov 2017

but he was my inspiration...when I graduated with my master's degree I thought the buttons on his suit would bust..he was so proud of me....his inspiration saved my life after my husband died so young..He encouraged me to go back to school and as I said.enhancing my education brought me out of my depressed state and saved my life....I miss my father every day