Happy Birthday daddy. I love and miss you i hope you are having a great birthday party in heaven. Remember when we would make you your favorite dutch apple cake and make you homemade birthday cards. You always loved the cakes and cards. I miss you so much. I wish you were here now to help me through what we are going through i need my daddy's help i love you so much. I miss you so much. I'm so glad you are no longer in pain and that you are healthy and happy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY.......... 

Daddy i miss you so much it's hard some days to get up in the morning. I still remember you calling me on your dialysis days saying hey darling it's your dad how's your day going... I wish i could hug you and tell you how much i love you daddy, you were my hero my best friend and you were my #1 fan... I wish i could have been there with you to hold your hand and to let you know you weren't alone.. Many says i feel alone and empty inside but then I'll see a canadian goose walking by my truck or across a walk way or just stairing at me and i just know it's you and i feel a little less lonely and a little less empty inside.. See you werw my guardian angel even when you were here and i just didn't know it but i know it now and i feel safe... I just wish you could hug me and tell me everything is going to be ok because you were always right and i want to here you say i love you darling you were my first born child... But i know you are always watching over me and our entire family.... I love you Daddy and i miss you Daddy....

              Love Always Your First Born Daughter

                     Carol Amanda "Doan" Sweat

Daddy's birthdays were always special. We would make homemade birthday cards and bake his favorite birthday cakes... This year is a hard year because daddy you are in heaven and i cannot make you a birthday card or a special cake ir a special dinner.... But i do have a special 75th birthday suprise for you... I love and miss you always.... 

                           Love always,

                             Carol....m

Happy Birthday Daddy i love you and miss you every day.. I wish you were here for your birthday but i know god needed you in heaven... I love you with all my heart....

When i was 5 yrs old me and daddy went to John's store and while we were looking around i saw the most amazing beautiful doll in the world.. I asked my daddy for that doll and he said sorry "squirt" we can't afford it i cried so much.... A couple weeks later was Christmas and after i had opened all my gifts, daddy said hmmm i believe someone has a special gift they didn't see..... So he told me to go look on his work table and to pull off the sheet.... I did and there was my very own handmade cabbage patch doll i named Suzanne..... I was so happy and i saw the twinkle in my daddy's eyes not knowing that the next day he went back to the store to buy her for me.......

In 2012 we had a family camping trip at Old HWY 41 campground #3. Daddy was super excited he loved camping, we had brought air mattresses and a huge 10 man cabin tent. Daddy was going to dialysis in the mornings and would spend the fishing lord I miss watching my daddy fish.. His grandkids my 3 children and my nephew would fish with daddy...  One morning in particular is so clear in my mind to this day.... Daddy was waking up and the air mattress went out of air and daddy was covered up in my daughter's pink tinker bell sheet.. We thought it was the cutes thing, when we asked daddy if he wanted another sheet instead of the pink sheet daddy said quote" REAL MEN SLEEP IN PINK TINKER BELL SHEETS" unquote... I still have the picture.. I thought that's my dad...  I miss you daddy I have so many memories I wish I could write them all down and send them to heaven....

This picture is very special to me. It is the only picture I have of my Daddy and me at my wedding. My dad was so proud to walk me down the isle and give me away on my wedding day...

MY dad was in the Air Force for 21 yes. He was a hard man but he was my dad, when we lived in Hermosa, South Dakota me and my dad ranch handed.... One night he decided it would be hilarious to scare all of us kids(3kids) so he went into the upstairs bathroom closet dressed in a orange hunting jacket with a Beatle juice mask and furry gloves on... When he started crawling in the closet which was HUGE, we heard something and stopped talking and started to listen then he throws the closetdoors open in our room roaring like a big old monster...... Needless to saymy parents didn't have a bit of privacy for 6 plus month's, my mom was like Steve this is your fault.. So he bought lilacroom deodirizer and wrote GHOST SPRAY...... Daddy never done that again..... Daddy I miss and love you so much I miss the funny times the hard times the good times but I know one day we will meet again.......