I don't remember this, but my mom said when I was little, I would almost always fall asleep while on my dad’s shoulders, and he would never let me fall. Back in Cub Scouts, my dad helped me make a Pinewood Derby car. He tried to make the weight as close to the required weight as possible without going over. Late at night, he would try his best to perfect the car in the garage. 

        My dad and I looked at the maps before we went on trips. We went on many camping trips to various places including Crater Lake, Havasupai, Zion, and others. 

        I also remember that he liked to watch “Huell Howser,” and I liked watching movie reviews on “Ebert and Roeper” with him. Dad had many old black and white movies which we watched together.  We thought Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy were really funny. 

        Whenever my dad watched San Francisco teams playing, I liked seeing how excited he got, especially during the game when the Giants won the World Series.  We not only watched sports together, but played sports together. Once in a while, we got the chance to play tennis together on Sundays. During our rallies, dad sometimes pulled off a backspin that I couldn’t hit since it moved toward the net after it bounced. 

        Besides being a protective and supportive dad, he was an avid reader. In the mornings, I would see him read the L.A. Times newspaper. He usually read aloud to me the scores of a recent game, or any news that interested him. He subscribed to Time magazine because he liked to read about news happening around the world.  Because my dad liked to read a lot, I picked-up his habit and started to read the newspaper and magazines just like him. In fact, Dad saved a fortune cookie slip which says "leaders are readers.” 

It was a blessing for us to partake in celebrating Christmas with you.  I delighted in the Lord when you said 1 Corinthians 13 was yours and David's marriage scripture.  Who but God could make such a beautiful memory for you and me of your sweet David.  I was so filled with joy to hear about your wedding verse.  What a blessing to love God together and honor him together with the truth, that is true love, agape love.  Gary and I weren't quite there when we got married, but I have seen in retrospect how God makes good (Romans 8:28) of our shortcomings.  He is an awesome God!!  Thank you again for this sweet memory of you and David.  It fills me with joy because it reminds me of our good and perfect God.  His truth is truly freeing!!!  By the way, 1 Corinthians 13 is my favorite scripture too.  It very clearly defines what love is.  God IS love and I feel he defines love so beautifully in 1 Corinthians 13.  If we want to follow our master and do his will, he asks us to "love" the Lord our God with all our mind, soul and strength and to "love" our neighbor as ourselves.  It's not with the "love" that the world offers, it's not immediate, it's more a purging of our worldly desires to want to be just like him.  It's understanding that love is patient, kind, not boastful...it ALWAYS hopes, trusts, perseveres and NEVER fails.  It also covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 .

                       God is good!!!           
                       Loving you guys deeply, so deeply it hurts!
                       Sandy Chow

I think Dave and I kind of hit it off because we are both from the Bay Area. Dave from the East Bay and me from the Peninsula. We both commensurate with each other about our fate in SoCal. (Where we both met our brides.) Dave and Janice had been dating for a while and a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving we were discussing our plans to make our annual pilgrimage back home to the Bay Area. Dave said he was leaving on a certain day and was returning on Sunday. And I said "and ...." Dave looked back at me with a look of bewilderment. He was always on guard for my sarcasm. I said "and what about Janice?" And Dave said "what???". "Aren't you going to take Janice up with you to visit your parents?" "Well... no I hadn't really thought about it", was his reply. A couple of days later, Dave said he did it. I asked "what?" He had asked Janice about traveling with him to the Bay Area to meet his parents. Of course she said yes. He was really happy when he told me.

Janice you're going to have to proof this because I heard this 3rd hand. And the rest is history, after a few trips to the Bay Area, Dave finally proposed to Janice in the Stanford Quad under a full moon. Tradition is that when a girl is proposed to in such a way she becomes a Stanford woman. True?

There you go Janice. I really can't believe Dave is gone. I was down in the dumps all day at work; with five meetings to go to. Unfortunately I won't be able to make Dave's service. We have too much going on at church (Advent) and the kids are in their last of the semester performances. (choir/shows).

Our families thoughts and prayers go out to you and your children at this time of loss.