HI BUDDY YOUR LOVED AND MISSED EVERYDAY

Well, 8 years now and not a day goes by that you're not in my thoughts. Missing you every day but keeping positive thoughts about all the good times. Those always get to stay with me. Say hello to Larry for me.

Cheers my friend!

Dave, always thinking about you, my friend. Hope you are happy up there.

Happy birthday dear friend! I think of you often. I'm guessing that feeling will never go away...in a good way. Cheers to you today and hope you and Larry are having a nice chat together over a cocktail. Peace my friend!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY MARVENS GARDENS FOREVER

Hi Dave
Thinking of you every day in my prayers. We're all getting closer to the day we can sit and having lunch again.

Wow, seven years! Boy, how time flies. Miss you each and every day my friend (and Larry too). My mom passed away last May. Perhaps you've bumped into her once or twice. Say hello to her for me...and Larry too. All's fine on this end. I'll be spinning 'Revolver' on the 'ol turntable tonight or tomorrow, perhaps 'Sgt. Peppers' too! Until next time...Cheers!

Hey Dave,
Belated Happy Birthday in Heaven my dear friend. Think about you every day. Hope you are safe and happy up there. Say hi to Joe Leary, George Weldon and John Casey and Floyd Sheeger. And the Lands (unless someone is covering their appearance). One day we'll be sitting at lunch again and telling jokes.

Hello from the land down below. 6 years, huh? Man, how time flies? I still get to wish you happy birthday no matter what. Doing okay here. Started going back to the gym to get myself back into shape. Zach hooked up with his first "real" job two weeks ago; Jules finished up year two at Stony Brook. Chrissy doing well. Hope you and Larry are having a few cocktails today in your honor. Miss you and always thinking of you. Peace my friend!

Hey bro. Happy Birthday! How happy can it be, really. Well, we are missing you. Could really use your voice, your thoughts and your presence. Hope to see you soon. Love you.

Happy Birthday my friend. I miss our lunch conversations and jokes more than you can imagine. Think about you every day in my prayers. Hate to tell you this, but Tony Bennett may be coming soon, so buy soundproofing headphones.
May the Omnipresent comfort you among the rest of the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem
Hamakom yenakhem etekhem betokh shaar avelay tziyon viyrushalayim.
הַמָּקוֹם יְנַחֵם אֶתְכֶם בְּתוֹךְ שְׁאָר אֲבֵלֵי צִיּוֹן וִירוּשָׁלַיִם

Wow, crazy world down here and a challenging 2021 for me but all good now and there's always time to put everything aside and think of you...which I do often, particularly our chats about family, music, sports. Lots of reminders of you with those subjects. The one thing that'll never be taken from me are the memories between us. R.I.P. my friend and say hello to Larry.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND WE WILL DRINK TO RANGERS GAME AGAIN

Can't believe it's been five years. Thinking of you today...and many days for that matter. Hope you and Larry are hanging out having a beverage or two. Love and peace from here. Cheers my good friend.

WE WILL DRINK AGAIN LISTENING TO EVE OF DESTRUCTION WATCHING A RANGER GAME

Happy birthday in Heaven Dave. Think about you all the time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY  SEE YOU AGAIN ONE DAY AND WE WILL HAVE A BEER WATCH RANGER GAME

Hello dear friend. Thinking of you today and remembering all the good times we've shared as both youths and adults. I miss those Islanders-Rangers and Cowboys-Redskins debates. I suppose I always will. Still trying to do the best I can down here. Every day present it's own set of challenges, some more so than others. At the end of the day, it all comes down to the ones we love and what makes us happy...family time, listening to music, watching sports, picking up a book. Goodbye for now my friend. Until next time...

THINKING OF YOU BUDDY AND GOOD TIMES AT COLLEGE DRINKING AT MARVENS GARDENS LISTENING TO EVE OF DESTRUCTION WATCHING A RANGERS GAME.  BEST OF TIMES.  SEE YOU AGAIN SOON BROTHER 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND
HAVING A FEW AT MARVENS GARDENS

Thinking of you today my dear friend. Happy #55th! You are missed and always in my thoughts. Cheers!

Thinking of you today my friend. Can't believe it's been three years. Instead of the typical tribute, how bout a 2018 roundup. Had low back surgery in April and torn meniscus surgery in November. Recovery from both going fine. Been getting back into albums...something about kicking back with a cold one and reading over lyrics with that vinyl spinning on the turntable. Got REMs 'Murmur' playing right now. Big football weekend with divisional round play, including my Boys...yes, they were actually decent this year for a change. Isles-Rangers go at it today in the 2nd of a back-to-back. Hope you get the MSG network wherever you are (ha ha). So long for now my friend. Cheers!

Thinking of you on this day, my dear friend. Thoughts of our lifelong friendship is what will be with me today. You are sorely missed and I think of you often. For you, today, I will play the only 45 in my record collection...The Beatles "Baby It's You".

Missing you my friend  Marvin's Gardens

Missing you On your birthday. Keith made the Little League All Star Team. Would've made a nice present for you. Hope you're not behaving. Love you and miss you terribly.

It is so hard to believe it has been one year since Dave passed away. Not a day goes by when I don't think of him and miss him. He was that brother from another mother. So many great times together beginning our freshman year at SUNY Albany, thru law school and trips together, Club Med in 1994, New Orleans, where we drank hand grenades and Las Vegas. Seeing him in the hospital about a month before he passed away where he, our mutual friend Howard and I laughed and he reassured us all would be fine. I remember calling him New Years Eve to wish him a Happy and Healthy New Year because no one needed or deserved it more than he did. I consider myself very lucky to know not only his family but Iris's as well and to have been at Keith's Bar Mitzvah and to have had Iris come to my son's 2 months later and to see her have a good time. I could go on for a long time. Rest in peace my friend.

I cannot believe it's been a full year since Dave's passing. It seems like yesterday. I still recall the last time I spoke to him...Thursday, January 7th when I called him from my office. I could sense in his voice that he was fighting but at the same time wouldn't let on so...you know Dave, always positive. The call was brief and I never figured it would be the last time I would hear his voice. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him, perhaps some days more than others. Like hearing a Beatles or R.E.M. song on the radio or watching a Cowboys-Redskins game. His passing has left a sense of emptiness in all of us. For me, it's the happy memories of a true lifelong friend (back to Sherman Avenue in Plainview where it all began) that fills the void. I miss you my dear friend.

Continue to rest in peace brother.. We were blessed by your presence

Austin Idehen

I spent 2 years at Nassau Community college with David

We spent many weekends bar hoping around long Island

with Mike Popski and Wayne Lapinsky

I remember him leaving for Albany and his working part time

in a pizza shop. Then life moved us all along life's journey.

I was feeling nostalgic and started trying to find my old friends,

that I shared coming of age with , girl friends party's and great times with.

I am sorry I reached out to late to reconnect with David and Wayne.

30 years

goes bye with a blink of an eye.


Rest in Peace my Friend

I have and always will hold you

in my fondest memories


Robert Prendergast Theophilis

A true and dear lifelong friend. From little boys to adult men with families, from Creative Day Camp (Little League) to Fantasy Hockey Drafts, from playing hockey and wiffleball in the street to having discussions about sports and music, from arguing about Islanders-Rangers to arguing about Islanders-Rangers, and all the good times in between, it's these memories that will live on forever. Although it saddens me that I cannot call you to talk to or meet you out for a beer, I will cherish the friendship that we had and the good times that we shared. Dave, you are and will be missed. Keep smiling my friend.

Those of us who had the pleasure and honor to share the same stage as Dave for too short a time loved him. He loved his family, his friends and his job. Lunches are just not the same without his smile, his laugh, his jokes and his intelligence. To this day, we look at eachother and say "Dave would have liked that one." He is truly missed.

Dave was an all around good guy who always had a smile or kind word for everyone he met.God bless you Dave, it was an honor to have known you. You will be missed.

“Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.” --Pete Townsend. Dave, for most, this quote is cautionary, but you enjoyed life. You made life enjoyable for everyone around you with your mere presence. You had hundreds show up to honor you yesterday. You have a beautiful wife and son. A family that has as big a heart as you did. You prayed for great things. You got all of them. You have accomplished more in 51 short years than you would have ever conceived of. You were too humble. Too generous. Too good. It has only been a couple of days and I miss you terribly. Missing my bro, in and out of work. I can't go anywhere to escape your loss. The building is much emptier. My back is less watched. You brought me over to the panel. You mentored me. You accepted me as your equal. Your confidant. Your technical support representative. I could never say no to helping you because you would never turn me down when I needed it. You helped me start my law practice getting me to the panel. You covered me when I couldn't make court appearances so I could expand my practice. My successes are your successes. You are reflected in many of the good things in my life and never will your memory fade. You left so much behind. Iris and Keith, and everyone you were close to miss that person watching their back. I'll do my best to watch theirs in your absence. It is the least I could do for my brother. Now is the time rest, the fight is over. May your passing cleanse the Earth.

I will miss you, my brother. I don't know why you were taken from us so soon. I will miss our discussions about music, football and other things...I hope you are at peace and I love you so much.