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This memorial website was created in memory of our Dad & Mom.
Richard, 72 years old, born on August 30, 1949, and passed away on September 2nd  2021. 
Frances Short, 68 years old, born May 16th, 1954, went to be with Dad & Jesus April 24th, 2023. We will love and remember you forever. ♥️
December 31, 2023
December 31, 2023
Mom & Dad,
I hadn't heard from Theresa in a couple days, so I called the nursing home and found out she is in the hospital. I called the hospital and she is on a ventilator. She needs y'all to watch over her. I requested prayers on Facebook. I pray she gets ok. I love y'all and u miss you every single day! I have no choice but to keep going just like you always said Dad. Lord I miss and love you both so much!!!
December 25, 2023
December 25, 2023
Mom & Dad,
This is my 1st Christmas without you. It's so much different. It's very hard. I am determined to make you proud and enjoy it the best I can. I have a new friend named Sarah and she is awesome. She just lost her mom on the 22nd. Here name is Kathleen. I have a feeling you all have met in heaven. We feel that you all brought us together to help each other through the grief. I hope you are enjoying Christmas in Heaven together. I love and miss you both more than words can ever describe!!! Please keep an eye on me.
Love always,
Your Baby girl
November 25, 2023
November 25, 2023
Yesterday was my 1st Thanksgiving without you both! It was horrible. It's so hard to celebrate or even get into the holidays without you! I wonder how you celebrated up there. I love you and miss you both more than words can describe!!! Everyday is a hard day.
Love,
Your Baby girl
September 2, 2023
September 2, 2023
Dad, I can't believe you've been gone 2 years today. My life has forever changed without you. I miss you so much everyday. I love you so much. Your memory will always live and be alive. I love you Daddy.
Love,
Your baby girl
August 30, 2023
August 30, 2023
Happy Birthday in heaven to the most wonderful dad ever!!! I miss you so much. I miss everything about you. I miss your love. I know you are celebrating big. I love you always, your babygirl.
August 23, 2023
August 23, 2023
Happy 51st Anniversary Mom & Dad!! I love and miss you both beyond words. Life here is just not the same without you!!!
July 24, 2023
July 24, 2023
It's been 3 months without you today Mom. It's been 20 months without you Dad. 
It's not getting any easier without you guys. I love and miss you all more than words. Words can't express how I feel. I'm lost and broken. I know y'all are happy in heaven together and that gives me peace. I love you both!!!!!
June 18, 2023
June 18, 2023
Happy Father's Day to you Daddy! You are the best Dad ever and always will be! I love you and miss you so much!!!
June 11, 2023
June 11, 2023
I'm so lost. I've had a so many meltdowns lately. I'm trying my best to get through this. I need you both and God to help me. I love you both and miss you more than words can describe.
May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023
Mom,
It's your 1st Heavenly Birthday. I miss you and Dad so much! Life is so different without y'all
I know y'all are happy and together, but its so hard without y'all.
I'm just so lost without you both.
I love you both so much
May 14, 2023
May 14, 2023
I love both of you and miss you very much. But I know you're happy being together once again Love and miss you. And pray for you both everyday.
May 14, 2023
May 14, 2023
Mom,
I don't know how to feel since you've been gone. It's my 1st Mother's Day without you. I'm broken and beyond devastated without you and Dad. I know I have to go on and be strong, I'm trying my best. Im happy for you 2 to be back together again. I know you were broken without Dad. I love and miss you both so much words can't express. Happy Mother's Day
May 13, 2023
May 13, 2023
Together Again ❤️
I love and miss you both so much!!!
December 24, 2022
December 24, 2022
Christmas will never be the same without you. There’s not a person who came into contact with you, that wasn’t impacted by your life. You are the true example of a man who was committed to his family. Your legacy reminds me that everyone is the author of his/her story. As your life continues to ripple in our daily thoughts and memories, I am so very thankful to have had the privilege of not only knowing you, but calling you family. Every time I think of you and that ornery twinkle in those blue eyes, I can’t help but smile. You are forever loved and missed Please tell Jesus Happy Birthday. I know that you’re somewhere in the middle of that party making everyone laugh ❤️
December 23, 2022
December 23, 2022
Of course u know this but i miss u so much. U were a wonderful man and i loved u just like a brother. It's Christmas and i still miss the candy canes i know it's a silly thing but to the point u knew i liked them and u gave them to me because u cared about me.
December 23, 2022
December 23, 2022
Dad, I can't believe its my 2nd Christmas without you. Theirs not a day goes by that I don't miss you. I know you see my Christmas tree. I miss you more than words. I love you Daddy!!!
September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022
I miss you so bad words can’t explain you were my whole heart and now it seems like half of me is gone
August 24, 2022
August 24, 2022
Dad,
Thank you so much for coming to talk to us tonight. Me and Mom both feel alot better. Our sadness for losing you and missing you will always be here. It's nice to know you are ok and happy. I love you!!! ❤️ We got her ;) 
August 9, 2022
August 9, 2022
Dad we were supposed to be having so much fun right now planning your and mom's 50th wedding anniversary. This time last year we were talking and laughing and making plans for the big day y'all waited 50 years for. I miss you so much and I'd give anything if you were here with us. I'm not me since you've been gone. I'm so lost. Your baby girl misses you so much. Life is so hard without you. I love you with all my heart and soul
July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022
Rocky misses you so much and I do too today is a especially hard day our anniversary will be coming soon and I have no idea how I’m going to handle that I miss you so much
July 10, 2022
July 10, 2022
Richard i think of you all the time. Your were truly my male best friend and of course i miss that friendship. I try to help Fran with all the hurt and loss she has in her heart but dont think i do any good helping her dont think anyone can
But just know my friend i an and will continue to be there if she needs my i love and miss u my friend
June 21, 2022
June 21, 2022
Happy Father’s Day in heaven Richard I couldn’t have picked a better dad for my kids and my fur baby you were always the best and spent your whole life showing your family how much they meant to you I will miss you until the day we meet again I lo
June 16, 2022
June 16, 2022
Hey papaw i miss u to death boys bc u were like a father a good one and u taught me abt life and how to live and i wish I could hug u again bc i love your hugs and u taught me to look at the world like present u haven’t opened yet but in all i hope your dancing with the real elvis and your tell him storys abt your life like u did with me i love you Pappaw with all my heart love your grandson troy boy or bubby❤️
June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022
I I miss all our teasing together all the bingo always telling me come on Theresa were we going you our the kindness and loving person I ever new you always welcome me as family i miss you so. Much you will always be in my heart my friend you our my angel now and you will be with me always'
June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022
Dad,
I don't know how to express the pain I've been feeling without you. The pain is so deep and hard to even begin to deal with. You are an amazing daddy and you are my hero. I miss you more than words can ever express. I miss talking to you everyday so much. Something is missing. Thank you for always being there for me in all the times in my life when you were the only one who could make it better. Thank you for being a wonderful husband and showing us all how a man is supposed to be. I will forever love and miss you with every breath. ❤️ Thank you for loving your family.
June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022
You leave behind a legacy that shows the true depth of your integrity and devotion to family. It shows in the family that lives on to remember and honor you. 
June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022
From the first time I seen you I knew you were the man I wanted to marry and spend the rest of my life with and 11 days later we did marry and we stayed together 49 years and I would’ve spent eternity with you I love and miss you every day life seems so useless without you I love you forever

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December 31, 2023
December 31, 2023
Mom & Dad,
I hadn't heard from Theresa in a couple days, so I called the nursing home and found out she is in the hospital. I called the hospital and she is on a ventilator. She needs y'all to watch over her. I requested prayers on Facebook. I pray she gets ok. I love y'all and u miss you every single day! I have no choice but to keep going just like you always said Dad. Lord I miss and love you both so much!!!
December 25, 2023
December 25, 2023
Mom & Dad,
This is my 1st Christmas without you. It's so much different. It's very hard. I am determined to make you proud and enjoy it the best I can. I have a new friend named Sarah and she is awesome. She just lost her mom on the 22nd. Here name is Kathleen. I have a feeling you all have met in heaven. We feel that you all brought us together to help each other through the grief. I hope you are enjoying Christmas in Heaven together. I love and miss you both more than words can ever describe!!! Please keep an eye on me.
Love always,
Your Baby girl
His Life

50th Wedding Anniversary

August 23, 2022
It's here. Your and Mom's 50th Wedding Anniversary.  I always love hearing you're love story from you're point of view. You are always proud she is your wife. I always watche the way you are with her, and I'm grateful I got to see 48 years of the truest love I'll ever see. I love you so much Dad. I miss you!!! I wonder how today would have turned out with our planning.

From Feedsacks To Suits

June 16, 2022
From feed sacks to suits. Not in the clothes aspect of it so much. So to begin to tell you about my dad I won’t start at the beginning of his life but at the point where he was born again.  Let me tell you of some moments my dad enjoyed because of that decision:
13,505 days to be a husband, father, friend and neighbor 
Lived to celebrate 49 years of marriage and love his best friend. To be loved by his best friend 
Watch all of his children hit 40 years of age 
Got to meet and hold his latest great grandson and namesake 
Seen his grandson graduate high school 
Watch his daughter finish nursing school and witness her success. 
Attend his sons college graduation 
Got to ride on an airplane, something he said he’d never do. 
Watch and admire his baby boy become a man others would envy 
Beat a lung cancer diagnosis 
Out live 8 of his siblings 
Seen the turn of a century 
Seen the ocean and put his feet in the water 
Made friends with an impersonator of one his lifelong idols (Elvis)
Because of all of these along with more to mention. My dad gave me and my family one of the greatest family experiences of a lifetime 
If anyone ever met, talked, or had any kind of an experience or interactions with my dad for the last 35 years. Little some may have known witnessed a miracle.
My dad made a decision in 1984 to give his life to Jesus. Make Him Lord and Savior of his life. He told me the story of when and how it happened. How that he asked God that if He would give him his family back he would quit drinking. Yeah my dad was quite the drinker. Kind of ironic with his job of parking cars. If you had your car parked in Cincinnati between the years of 64’-86. It may have been dad and a good possibility not a sober one. I remember the story of him riding a bicycle. My sisters ten speed to be exact. But he rode it across the Big Mac bridge more than likely around 11-12 at night. He would say I was drunk as a skunk. Anyway he ended up wrecking the bike somewhere between Cincinnati and Newport. He Warped the tire so bad he had to carry it and couldn’t remember the next morning what and how it happened. Yeah this was the kind of lifestyle we had come accustomed to. So This wasn’t the first time my dad has promised to quit. There were many empty promises made before. So many my mom probably lost count. My dad knew this time something was different and he knew deep down something drastic had to change. I’m sure in that moment he remembered a story that he has heard so many times. About the love and forgiving grace of our Heavenly Father. He then made the decision to put his trust in something other than the thing keeping him from his family. That’s the difference. My dad found Jesus when he laid his burdens at the cross. When my dad went into the woods and sat on a rock, that summer day in 1984 he came out a different man. You don’t have to be an educated man. My dad had a 10th grade education. And made the right decision when it came to the biggest choice in life. Because of that decision God held true to His promise to be faithful and just. For the extra 35 years and Gods transformation that my dad and my God gave me. He became the dad who’s ready to jump when his kid called. Like at Ray’s wedding my sister called our dad and proceeded to tell him about a big boy statue. All dad heard was there was a big boy after your sister and we need to go. Well it was a whole 200 feet away and when we arrived. Me and dad find an actual frisches big boy statue. We laughed of course but that was the dad that came out of the woods those many years ago. And our whole family is so thankful for that unselfish decision the man we called dad and husband. Jesus suffered the things of this world to be a personal savior to all. He even experienced the loss of His Father while on the cross. We love you and will always honor your memory and look at your life to be an example of how to live.
Recent stories
July 8, 2022
I miss you so much Dad. The emptiness I have inside is so hard. I've never been so broken as I am without you
It's so hard, our family is missing a huge peice,  we'll never be the same. I love you so much!!! Your baby girl
June 21, 2022
Every day seems to get harder going on without you I never dreamed I would have to be without you I’m getting so weak and lonely without you to keep me going I love and and miss you with all 

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