Happy birthday Daddy
I sit here laughing, imagining what we would all be doing right now on this day to celebrate you. You would've already had your requisite phone calls from your children. All of us racing to see who got you first. There'd be somebody going to lunch with you, somebody being carnapped. Your dinner reservations would have been planned weeks in advance right down to the very thing that you were going to eat. Most likely dinner was a big bloody prime aged steak.
We would've all been scrambling around for weeks prior trying to find you anything you didn't already own or something new that was made of cashmere. I'd like to think I would've made you those chocolate drop cookies that your mother used to make, the ones with the hard white frosting..... it was the last thing you ate...I made sure of that.
I miss you and love you so much it aches my bones. happy birthday I hope you and mom are celebrating together

Happay 87th Birthday!!! 

I had such a great dream about you Dad. I was so real - I could see the color cashmere sweater you were wearing. I put my head on your shoulder and just gave you a hug. I think I needed that. Thanks Dad - for visiting me. 

Oh my Daddy. The ache in my heart from your passing only intensives with time.
Thank you for the wonderful dream last night. I needed your hug.

Remembering you Dad today - You are greatly missed each and every day!!!

When I first met you - oh my gosh did you intimidate me! I didn't know how to read you. But once Scott and I got married and I got to know you better you brought me into your family. Treated me not as a "daughter-in-law" but as a daughter. You were an - but gentile and caring. I appreciated your wisdom, your guidance and love through out the years.

STUEY it is now your time to rest,we gave one hell of a RUN.
  
    REST IN PIECE MY FRIEND.

Stu,

I owe it to you. The opportunity you've given me, this Puerto Rican kid from NYC. You visioned the potential I never knew I had. When the time came you seen the drive I had. You gave me that motivation. The words I always say up to this day that I got from you were quote" GO EAT THEIR LUNCH"! I didn't want to let you down. I know I didn't let you down. I am so blessed you've crossed my path. You are a mentor and a figure of a leader to me in my life.

The tribute song by Frank Sinatra is one of my favorite. I can't stop crying.
We will see each other one day in the big Lumber Yard in the sky!
Wood is Good!

God is Good!

Thank you Stu, I am forever grateful.
Efrain Negron

Stu we have had a great run in life and nothing is forever we enjoyed our friendship and all the good times at the lumber company.   
   You will always be in my thoughts

              Rest in peace my friend
                  Frank Champe