I think about you every day -- not just on this day. Seems like yesterday and yet it seems so far away. I miss you

Happy Birthday and Valentines Day - Always in our prayers and thought on this day. With love - Stacy and the Denver Family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN !!
Gone, but never forgotten.
We miss you.
love, betty and randy

Happy belated birthday Alan!!
We miss you, and we know you are smiling down on us all.
betty and randy

Today would have been your 75th birthday . Missing you much!

Happy 75th Birthday, Alan! Can't get by this day without celebrating you and the laughter and love you left behind. Family and friends has been texting me today making me realize how much you are loved and missed by so many. Wherever you are, Happy Birthday.

Love you much.

Hi Alan,

 Been thinking about you all day. Missing you.
Detty is working so hard to keep your spirit and memory alive.
We had a lot of fun last night reminiscing about her memories of you.
Keep them smiling in heaven and say a prayer for Wayne.
betty and randy

4 years. Someone asked me today if it felt that long. Answer is, some days it seems like you've been gone forever and others it seems like yesterday. For whatever reason, it just seems like I am missing you more and more but that you are still close by and watching out for me. Doesn't matter if you are here or not, I'm still yours and we are forever soul mates. Thank you for the memories we created and the laughter you left behind. Yes, I still have to laugh out loud at times when I think of the things you did. I love you.

Happy Birthday;
It is hard to imagine how fast time goes by.
Miss not being able to share living in Florida with you.
Love, Rick

Alan - Always looked forward to the celebration of your birthday. Miss the humor you always brought to the day. Never knew what to expect from you.
Terri, Detty and I were talking about how we all enjoyed your 70th with you and the family. Maybe the last time all your siblings we were all together with you. Miss our calls and talks. Love ya. Stacy... 

Dear Alan,
I text Det and wished her a happy Valentine’s Day but also knowing it was your birthday. I know you’re looking down with a smile seeing the changes made with Det now living the dream you two had to relocate to Florida, Paul and Shelly soon to be joining her and myself relocating to Tennessee to be with my family while we continue on with your legacy to grow our company. We had to overcome so many obstacles but as you always said, look at them as opportunities. We all miss you very much.
 

Happy Birthday, Alan!! We celebrated in style as we always would and made it a great day. I'm here for good now and I know that would be the best birthday gift ever for you. I have you with me every day, not just on your birthday and still miss you more than ever. Love you!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN.
we love you and miss you.
betty and randy

You have been in my mind a lot the past few days even though I see your picture next to my work desk every day. Miss talking with you, both just for a fun conversation or for advise. Always could count on you through the good and the bad. So, to celebrate our life together I am going to bake some blonde brownies this week. Wish you were here to share them with, and I will be thinking about you in every bite. Love you, Stacy

Hi Alan,

  Thought of you a lot today, as so many of your friends and loved ones did.
Have you ever just looked at someone and thought " I want to know this person" Wish we could have known each other longer. It is so great learning
more about you when I talk to the love of your life. Detty.
You lucked out pal, and she will always be your biggest fan.
You and Bill and Justin stay out of trouble.
love you,
betty

It's hard to believe that you have been gone for three years--it doesn't seem that long. I've sat here all day thinking what to say to you and all I can think of is that I feel as empty today as I did that day. We have so many friends and family that care deeply about you and I and I've spent all of today talking with them. Thing is, there is not one of us that still doesn't miss you terribly -- me the most. You were my best friend, the love of my life and I don't think there will ever be a day that I will forget how great my life was with you in it. Love you always....

Alan and Bill will be with us always.


Terri and Stacy

Happy Birthday, Alan. Dad came to be with you all yesterday and I'm hoping he made it to your birthday party. The more the merrier to celebrate your day. I miss you and you are never far from my thoughts. I know you have been watching over me during this time with my Dad but I really wish you were here with me. Dad could really use a good party so make sure you all have fun. Hugs and kisses on your birthday! I love you, Det

Alan,
Think about you all the time old friend.
Growing up and growing old together is something very special. Was just in Ytown and drove by your house which brought back a flood of memories and laughs.
Missing you, but keeping you alive in my head and heart.

Fred

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN.
AS I TALK TO YOU EACH WEEK AT EVANS PRARIE I FEEL YOUR PRESENCE
AND KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING. WE MISS YOU!
THE LIFE YOU LIVED WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AND THE SMILES YOU CREATED WILL LIVE ON FOREVER.
AS WE MOURN THE LOSS OF BILL TODAY WE KNOW YOU TWO ARE TOGETHER AND "UP TO SOMETHING"
betty and randy

There are just too many things I want to say, want to talk to you about but the sorrow is still so deep all I can say is Happy Birthday. I miss you and all your little notes and hints that your birthday was coming, like I could ever forget that. I'm just so lucky that I got to celebrate 43 of your birthdays with you. I just wish we had 43 more. Love you.

Thinking of Detty and the entire family today on Alan's birthday. The void created by Alan's passing seems to get larger and larger.
Detty has been a shining example of addressing loss with GRACE... thanks for 'showing us the way'.

I get these feeling every time I need a break from work or stressful situations and use to call you that you are still there to talk with, and then an empty feeling that I cannot just pick up the phone to call. Miss you but still feel your presence, partularly lately. Just like the night I went back to the hospital knowing you needed me there. Love you Bro. Thanks for all your support over the years.

I miss you more and more as the days go by. I wish I could turn back the clock or wake up one morning to find this was all a bad dream. but...
Love you forever.

Alan,
  What a sad day this could be for those of us who miss you so.
Randy and I choose to think of ALL the contributions you made to the world and those special people in your life. As you know, I speak to you every week while in your beloved home in Florida.
Our hearts and prayers are with you, Detty, and Bill always.
No doubt the angels are rejoicing in your contributions in heaven
love you.

Thinking of Alan and sending love to Detty on this day of Alan's birthday.
Feeling memories, sadness, loss, and knowing that Alan is at peace, but gone much much too soon...

Happy Birthday Alan.
I am sure the angels are singing. We miss you.

Happy Birthday Sunshine. I love you.

Alan & Detty came in to our lives here in The Villages, FL. several
years ago and became 2 of our favorite people and customers!
It was such a pleasure to be with them We will miss our dinners and
sitting on their lanai having cocktails (more me and Detty having
cocktails) The twinkle that so lit up Alan's eyes and devilish smile are
going to be missed . It was always fascinating to see where that
great mind was going ,and oh the plans..the plans ...
The life Alan led will always be remembered. The way he touched our hearts ( and our funny bones) cannot be erased.
Alan, our friend,we will still be waving at the cameras.
Detty, we love you. Our prayers for you and Bill.

I have known Alan and Detty for almost thirteen years. The day I reached out to Xmultiple to see if they were looking for an experienced connector sales person, was the same day the person working for them gave his notice (which Detty was very excited about hahaha). Alan asked me to come in that afternoon and after an hour discussion he told me I had the job. I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason and meeting Alan and Detty without any question was meant to be. I had over twenty years’ experience in connector sales prior to joining Xmultiple and what I will always remember about Alan is that he was always looking for new ideas, to come up with something new, something that everyone had to have, I respected that, it pushed and inspired me as well. Many people may not know this about Alan but he was the originator of the LED integration on RJ45 connectors, what this means is, every electronic device you own that has a connector that a cable plugs into with those twinkling little colored lights was Alan’s idea. Today this is known as an industry standard all over the world. To think this was his idea he ran with and the whole world used is incredible. Alan was not a boss to me but more of a partner and together with the help of everyone else at Xmultiple, we shared some major success and growth. Both Alan and Detty not only got to know me, but my whole family. Last year My wife Cathy and I went to Singapore with Alan and Detty, our company was awarded the Key supplier award from our customer Avaya. It was an amazing trip for the four of us, Alan and I attended the Avaya supplier appreciation day, it was such a proud moment for us to receive such a prestigious award for our company, many of our major competitors only dream of receiving such an award. Xmultiple is Alan’s baby, he and Detty started this great company and I am so glad I have been on this journey with them and to watch our company grow. It’s still hard to believe he is no longer with us but I know he is spiritually. We are going to move forward and grow Xmultiple because that is exactly what Alan would want us to do. I am so grateful to have known him, work side by side with him through the good and the bad times. Alan was family to me, my whole family loves Alan and Detty and he will be sorely missed. Thank you Alan for your guidance and friendship.

Much love and respect,
Mike

Remembering Alan

We came from a time when our curfew was the street lights and our mother yelling “time to come in. If we didn’t eat what mom made for dinner, then we didn’t eat. Riding a bike without a helmet, getting dirty was OK and we drank water from the garden hose and survived.

I have learned; that being the first-born child certainly, knowing or unknowing, for good or bad; shaped my role our family life. I am not ready for any of us to pass from life; after all, Dad made it to 85 and Mom to 94.

Reflecting on our stations in life, until I was 16, Alan was the baby. Mine was as the oldest and I was already out of the house and on my own when we moved from Sharon to Youngstown. That independence sort of set the stage as my role as, “the big brother”. For Alan, I became a safe zone for his “don’t tell our father” adventures. Like helping him buy a motorcycle to take back to Columbus. Of course; Fred, Renee and Rena took rides on it and Fred drove it to Columbus with him.

Alan was the instigator and always came out as innocent. Like our rehearsal dinner, Alan challenged Fred to a drinking contest. They sat at the bar and had two tall glasses filled with Scotch. They each picked up their glasses, Fred quickly drank his and Alan put his down; “still full”. It took all the Pocrass brothers to get Fred home safely.
My big brother role most influenced Alan’s work career. I introduced him to my counterpart at NCR in Columbus, who hired him out of Ohio State. Later my claim to fame was that I introduced him as the top candidate and was paid a retained search fee for two of his jobs. The second brought him and Detty to Los Angeles.

Once in Los Angeles Alan quickly played a role with Doug and Michael from coach of the Little League Team to he and Detty staying with them when we were out of town. Then there were the Lake Tahoe end of summer vacations river rafting on the American River and Truckee. Alan always had a gang of kids doing mischief on the beach and Casino at the Hyatt in Incline Village.

When we moved in to our house in Tarzana, Alan convinced me we could pull up the marble floor so we could have a wood floor installed. We rented a Jack hammer but did not realize the dining room floor was just over dirt. A ton of jokes later we left a bigger mess for the flooring contractor to fix.

Over the years there were some ups and downs but I most happy for how close we became during these senior years. Alan gave me an unbelievable amount of joy looking forward to retirement in Florida. I am going to miss that the most.

Growing up, Alan was about as terrific of an uncle as any kid could wish for. He was always fun to be around, and many times we just thought of him as being a really big kid. He always had jokes for you to make you laugh. Going to his house as a child was always a blast. Always ahead of the times, before Nintendo even existed, he had Intellivision - all the great video games back in the early 80s, and a big screen TV to go with it (and it was big) - what an awesome place for his nephews and nieces to hang out, especially for a video game addict like I was as a child. Plus, he had all the cool movies to plug into the VCR.  And, again, Alan was always cutting edge. I remember him taking me out to fly his drone (back then it was called a remote controlled airplane), twenty years before anyone knew what a drone was in today's sense. And this was not some small toy, this was definitely a drone (but without the camera).

I have countless memories of my uncle from my childhood, and I have been thinking through them this past week. Of course, all of my cousins remember a family trip to the Boardwalk, and constantly running to him for quarters so we could win tickets and a big prize playing skeeball. He was the coach of my first teeball baseball team, and he made me the pitcher - which is extremely low pressure in teeball. Sometimes, Alan and Detty were back-up parents for us when we were young. I remember my parents went away on a trip, and they came to watch me and my brother for about a week. I was probably about six, and just moved to my own room. But I wasn't exactly committed to that notion, so once I thought everyone was asleep, I decided to stealthily crawl across the hallway to my brother's room. When I was there and thought I had made it, there came Alan smiling and telling me that "he wasn't born yesterday" and knew what I was doing the whole time.

Alan was always a positive and supportive uncle for me both as a child and as an adult. He always seemed to see the upside or humor that he could share with you whenever you had a problem or situation to handle. Alan was always a big dreamer, always aiming high. But not just for himself, as he always encouraged the same in me.

As an adult, the older I got, I saw Alan less frequently than either of us would have liked, and we spoke about that sometimes. He always said that just meant we were busy living life, pursuing dreams, and didn't mean we weren't in each other’s thoughts. Reflecting back, Alan played a big part of my childhood, bigger than I would have realized if you asked me a few weeks ago. His outlook on how to take on life was contagious. Have fun, don't take things too seriously, aim high, enjoy each day, and whatever happens....happens. Alan will always be a part of who I am, and for that I am extremely grateful.

Love ya, your nephew, Michael

Alan was a dear friend for over 50 years. I will miss his smile, enthusiasm for the Buckeyes, and friendship. We grew up together and shared a lot of fun and experiences. So glad we stayed in touch all of these years. My deepest sympathy and condolences to Detty on the loss of Alan. We will all miss him dearly