There is a special place in my heart that holds your memories. You were so special your were my hero and many others .Bass fishing was your hobby. Being with your family and cooking for all of us was your way of telling us you loved us. Sharing your wisdom and your Bass boat was what you loved . There are very few great men in this world , and i believe the saying only the good die young. cause you were the good!! So happy to share my stories about you and so happy to be your daughter! Me and the boys were talking about you tonight . Cory making a joke about you and i said really Cory, your making a joke of your grandpa?  He said yes and Grandpa is laughing. and then i laughed cause i know he was telling the truth. You would have laughed and had a great come back for him. My Children thought of you as their Grandpa and Dad You are the reason i have Great kids. LOVE YOU POP!!!!

its been 2 years . Wow was hoping i wouldnt miss you so much by now. Hasnt been a day i havn't thought of you . hasn't been a day i havent missed you. We all get thru day by day. I appreciate you I adored you. As so many of us have. I will always post about you and will always bring you up to my kids my friends and Our family. I miss you like crazy. Cant forget your smiling face. cant be at you house and cant ride your 4wheeler without  memories of you . (all good , You were one of the good ones).But we all made it thru another year . Dont know how , your were always our rock Our bond for each other. but we are making sure your glue stuck.Joan is surviving , she misses you like crazy. we all help her lol ( who am i kidding she helps us lol) Love you pop always will !!!!!!!!

Being   a kid of a great man how do you put it into words , seing my family that i came from. loosing him and seeing how it effects all of us. his brothers, his sisters his nieces his nephews grandkids great grandkids. all of us loved him.  i can only hope that i effect my family the way he did. We all remember stories about him we all hope that his legacy will go on forever. God he was such a special person. And i  am proud to be his daughter... Im hurt he left me so early and it sometimes dosnt seem fair that i dont have my Dad here with me. but i realize that a great man is better than not having a very good man. I was blessed for the time i had and i know we all were, (anyone who meant something too him), (most of us).how blessed we were. his smile i will never forget, his good nature will be with me forever. he had faults . but i cant tell you any cause he was a hero to me. Daddy i love you and always will...

Garry was born to Billy and Versia Derringer. He was the 5th of 6 kids.He has 4 Children, Christy, Kimberley, Missy and Lonnie. He was married to Joan Derringer for 33 Years. 15 grandchildren and recently became a great grandpa. He has many many nephews and nieces that loved him dearly.He built his house, With the help of family, when i was just a little one. Growing up he and his brother sisters, nieces nephews, kids , wife went camping.(we all had those campers that go in the back of a pickup truck) the same pickup truck all 6 of us rode in. piled in that truck riding back from uncle Larry's riding horses, bailing hail,deer hunting. fixing something on the farm in Rockwood.When we were kids we were always at grandpa and grandma Derringers for fish fry's .Hoping the family didnt get into a political discussion.(or there was gonna be yelling) The Derringer family is all set in their ways and none of them think they are wrong. Most of them would drop what they were doing to help each other out.Bill, Wilma Larry ,Ladonna and dad were very close.
 He recently retired from the Carpenters union. And loved spending his time fishing in his Bass boat.He also kinda enjoyed being the" house bitch " he cooked for his family ,his wife's church. he even learned to run the dishwasher.But he sayed Joan hid the vacuum cleaner from him.(that was his joke)
He was just a kind person. He loved to teach anyone his wisdom of fishing or hunting.Most of the kids in our family who 1st started hunting went with Him. He loved to see their face when they killed their 1st deer, and he would be so proud to tell the story to the family. 
He loved his grandchildren he loved being with them making them biscuits and gravy.And believe me the kids all said grandpas were the best none of us could do it like him.(believe me we have all tried) 
Ill remember holidays at the house.him making sure all of us had a plate before he got his. and knowing that chair at the end of the table was dads. He loved hosting Thanksgiving for the Averbeck family.He enjoyed being with his friends. His Wednesday nights with Bob and Sharon.Of course Joan was the DD. He loved his cold draft Miller light at the bars. and everyone knew he wanted a fresh frosty mug each beer.
He knew all the stories of his family. And recently Christy and i were blessed to go to Cave in rock with him visit family cemetary's hear stories of his childhood.We  had the best time and i will cherish that forever.
I love how my children look like him. (the big thumbs) and those huge paws.I love how my uncles have the same hands.
My father was a kind man he would not hold grudges. my Mother Sue and him were divorced.But he was her friend. He loved her for giving him his kids.He never ever had a bad word to say about her to me our my sister.Nor did she about him.They made being a child of divorce so easy.And besides if it weren't for their divorce i wouldn't have Joan, Kim or Lonnie. he knew life was how it was meant to be.  
He was and always will be loved by his family,and friends.And in all of us we will keep him here with us in our own ways. He will never be forgot.