Message: We are honored to provide this Book of Memories to the family.

Message: Wishing you peace and comfort during this time of loss

Message: My prayers and thoughts are with you all. Richard was a great man.

Message: Melissa and Tanica, this is a beautiful. you will always be in my thoughts and prayers.

Message: Hugs and prayers. I love you all

Message: Melissa - I love this poem & I hope it brings you comfort as it does for me. Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that 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 an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

Message: Uncle Rich will always be thought of as the soft spoken giant to me. He will be greatly missed. Family is in my thoughts and prayers. My fonded memory of him is when I was a little girl and I was able to go to his re-enlistment on his ship. I was so proud.

Message: Rich will be deeply missed. He was a wonderful person and so helpful to mom and dad. All of you are in our thoughts and prayers.

Message: Thoughts and prayers for your family, may your memories carry you through this difficult time of loss.

Message: You will be missed