You are always on my mind and always in my heart.. everyday your on my mind, i miss having you here to talk to..I try to be strong but sometimes i just cant...not having you here by my side is killing me...their are so many things i want to talk to you about.i know your watching over us,and i know you always worried about me, just stay close to me i know when your near,,know that i love you.........

Papa's Eugoly

by matt hayes

My papa ..... we all have different memories of him.... we all know how much he loved being from charlestown... being a townie..... how much he loved his dogs misty and smokey..... all the boston sport teams.... being an elk especially the past exhaulted ruler....... you may remember him playing the horn, softball or the dances he ran for special needs kids maybe you remember how much he loved to swim and the trips to the beaches or maybe you know what a nockel is... some of you might remember what a good dancer he was.....

but i remember my papa having to have atleast one iced coffee everyday... large black drop of milk extra ice no sugar.. he would drink that while playing pogo or while i beat him at jungle gin... or tried too... or while waiting on my dad to fix whatever he did wrong that day to the computer...

my papa had a great sense of humor and we had alot of fun together......we would drive nana crazy whoooooing to each other which only got worse as the nurses who came to the house and started whooing too, as well as the doctors and nurses in the hospitals when papa had to stay there.. my nana would say there going to put you both in the looney bin and we tell her not to worry we had yuko the clown as our lawyer we'd be just fine, plus papa had him on speed dail incase nana ever found out it was papa who broke the new chairs while playing with the scooter chair and couldnt stop so he just crashed into them..... sorry nana

but more then anything papa loved his family best of all :

My Nana, who he would call Maryant, he would tease my nana until she got mad then turn to me smile and say.. see your grandmothers yelling at me again..but papa always knew what good care of him she took and he would worry about her and loved her very much

His brothers and sisters, whenever I fought with my sister Ashley in front of papa he would say to me ..I would never do that to my sisters...he adored his brothers and sisters and was very proud and honored to be their brother

His children, papa would tell endless stories about them to Ashley and I..so yes dad, aunties and uncles..we know everything you did..the good the bad and inbetween, even though he didnt get a chance to see all of them to often they were always in his thoughts and he loved them and was very proud of them

All of his grandchildren, Ashley his Shelly girl and me his partner in crime, papa loved being a grandfather, there isnt anything he wouldnt have done for us, he loved spending time with us, telling stories about his life and listening to stories about our lives, We always knew how much he loved us

My mom, he loved to tease my mom until she pretended to get mad and gave him a poke and told him he was fresh then he would poke her back or enlist the rest of us to get her, he always treated my mom like she was his own daughter

His extended family and freinds, you were all very important to papa and each of you helped to enrich his life

Papa loved all of us and we all loved papa, he touched our lives and lives on through us, papa we love you..oh and papa, yes that is a nice offit you have on, this ones for you woo who woo who who