To you daddy on this Father’s Day 2019. Almost two years without you. I know you do not want me to be sad or even remember that sad day, but you know me better than anyone, I can’t help it. So bear with me please. Do you remember I came over and gave you the dolphin blanket? I put it on you and you loved it because you smiled and nudged your chin into it and said “I luff you”. I remember helping you eat, steak and potatoes. I knew you’d rather just have a beer. So there, I’m done reminiscing sad stuff. Happy Father’s Day papa and I love you so much! I sure hope you are spending today in the great South Bay with Grandpa Gunther and Great Grandpa Bruno fishing! Oh how I miss bringing you your “medicine”!!!! Someday again I promise!!

It will be 2 years since you left this place to go fishin' elsewhere. We will never forget your stories, ideals and unique way of getting your point across. We know how much your loved ones miss you, but we also know that we will all be togehter again in another place where we won't age further, won't know pain, won't know anything other than love and peace. We can share stories and memories about military service, aviation, being cops and how much we love our families. Know you are watching over those you love! See ya again.

Well bill it’s almost two years since you went back to heaven I miss you so very much it’s very lonely without you here just not the same old world we were together in. I hope you are with all of your buddies and family still in love with you your girl jean

It's nearing the 2nd anniversary of your gone fishing. Just want you to know I miss you so much it still hurts so fresh in my mind. I quote a phrase from a song..Take me back, country roads, to the place, I belong.. I love you Daddy with all my heart! Your little girl, Veronica Leigh

Thinking of you on this day the Titanic sunk. I remember when I was a little girl how intrigued I was as you would tell me the story of the great ship that sunk. Loving you always. Your little girl.

Happy New Year Dad! We ate lobsters for you as was your tradition with Mom. They weren’t as good as Maine lobsters of course, but the evening was great spent with the family. We thought about you and how you should have been here, but I’m sure you were in your own special way. I love you daddy, always and forever. Your little girl, Veronica Leigh

Miss you more and more Bill love you jean

Hope your Christmas in Heaven was more beautiful than anyone can imagine! You are missed here more than you know, but sure left your mark for us all. Your wife and children and grandchildren are living testimonies as to your character, the goodness instilled in them, and the love shared for so long. You were an honorable man in every way and we were blessed to call you 'friend'.

Merry Christmas Daddy. I Love You and will be thinking about you today how wonderful you made our holidays. Warm, funny, loving, giving. What a great man and I promise you I’m doing my best to live by all the things you’ve taught me to be. Forever missed papa, Merry Christmas to you. Always love you, Veronica Leigh

Happy 54th Anniversary in heaven I Love you and miss you love your girl Jean

December 12th, 1964 - 54 years ago you married Mom and I want you to know how blessed I feel to have had the most beautiful and wonderful parents in the whole world. Mom misses you terribly, but I told her you don't like it when she cries, so I told her to "Knock it off" just the way you used to say it! She laughed, but I'm sure you saw that and laughed yourself. Oh Daddy, I miss you and Love you very, very much. Happy 54th Wedding Anniversary Daddy! Thinking of you all the time..

PS.... Hope you are having a "Cheeseburger" in Paradise for your birthday dinner tonight! Love you Papa!

Daddy, wishing you a Happy Birthday in Heaven. Your second one I can't believe how time flies. You are missed every second of every day. I repeat that over and over because it's true. I miss you right now like I did the day you went away. I love you so much my heart breaks everyday missing you. I will continue to celebrate you through this website, through stories told to your grandchildren and the love I give to each of our loved ones in your absence. Hope you are still proud of me. I still need that from you. I love you Daddy.

Happy Birthday Bill! Miss you here, but we are sure you are in a glorious realm sharing stories and still teaching others the meaning of trust and truth.
Have a beautiful birthday!

Happy Birthday Papa! Miss you horribly! Hope you are saving me some bait so when we meet again I can join you at that awesome fishin’ spot. I’ll bring the beer!
Miss and love you my friend.

Celebrating Independence Day with all our family together. Missing you every moment of my life. I love you always Daddy. Your little girl forever, Veronica Leigh

It’s one year today Bill miss you love you only wish you were here for my cancer problems could have used your big shoulder to cry on love your girl jean

Daddy, it's been a year, I can't believe you are gone this long. I know that you are with all of your cherished family and friends, so I will not be sad for you. I will only celebrate the wonderful life you gave me and Billy and all of us. We will celebrate your life always together. I love you very much Papa. Always & Forever. Your daughter, Veronica Leigh

Lots of things have changed since you left us, but we hold on to your words, stories, unique perspectives and truthful analogies. You are missed. When we think back to our Florida time, you are one of the best memories we share. You had a genuine caring for those around you and leave that legacy for your family and all who knew you. Thanks friend. Hoping to see you again so we can go fishing and swap stories again.

Happy 1st Fathers Day in Heaven Dad. I know you are somewhere fishin’. Love and miss you every moment of every day. Love your daughter, Veronica Leigh

Thinking about you Papa. I love and miss you so much, just can't believe you are gone. You were just here yesterday. It's never going to feel real.

Still think of you often and all the time shared and lessons learned. Save us a seat up there!

Happy Easter in heaven Bill love and miss you your girl Jean

Happy Easter Daddy. Last year this time you were in the hospital. This year I know you are in a fabulous place, perhaps fishing, perhaps strolling through the pines in Maine. Wherever you are, know that we love you and miss you every moment of every day.

Happy New Year Dad. Just heard "Margaritaville" on the radio. I know you are here with us. Forever missing you. Love you my sweet papa.

Happy New Year in heaven my guy bill we had 54 together and I remember all of them we were lucky to be together that long but I sure do miss you this season. Our first without you. 
Love your girl Jean

Merry Christmas Daddy. Your first in Heaven. Our first without you here. I thought about you every second as we celebrated opening gifts with laughter, hugs, kisses, and having our Christmas feast. I thought about the "roast beast" you used to call our dinner meat. I missed watching A Christmas Carol with you. I did and felt like you were with me just the same. I love you more than I ever did before and somehow I know you are here with me all the time. Thank you Dad for giving me 47 years of fabulous Christmas memories that I will cherish for as long as I live.

Merry Christmas in heaven my guy Bill missing you love your girl Jean

Bill today is our sons birthday billy we will miss you so much as we celebrate his 41 st birthday we love you and will be thinking of you love jean

Happy Anniversary in heaven to a very special friend, I miss you and love you dear Bill !!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Bill, We will fish again someday in a much better place.
When I get to Florida next Monday, there will be a big hole in my visit,
I'll see you another time in another place

Happy 53rd Anniversary Dad. I brought Mom some flowers and a card with butterflies on it this morning. She cried for you. I cried for you. We know you are close by, but it still hurts. Love you and miss you still so much. Always in my heart and thoughts. Your little girl.

Happy anniversary Bill my guy love your girl jean

Daddy, I know this is late, but I just wanted to let you know that as we celebrated Thanksgiving, I thought of how blessed I was to be with you for that year. Everything and everyone came together to make it possible. What a gift I shall treasure forever and ever. I love you always. Your daughter, Veronica Leigh

Jean and Veronica, I just thought of an incident Bill and I shared several times.

In Catania, Sicily was the Excelsior Hotel. A very elegant place, I don't remember how we got there the first time. But the European's have the Continental Breakfast.

This one had a large pot of coffee(very strong),heated cream(we mixed it 50-50 (cafe e latte), Sicilian bread(hard crust-soft center) about 1-1/2" in diameter, Real butter(that was curled from a cold bar of rich butter, Home made marmalade containing rind and seeds from whatever fruit is was made from.

We shared the first serving that came with linen and real silverware. It was meant for two people!

Subsequent visits called for; un Altro, Per Favore! This was soon redundant as the Waiter knew we each had our own serving!!

This was a morning thing, but just down the alley was a small Mom & Pop eatery(4 tables). He did the cooking and she waited tables.

Once again, they soon learned to bring us servings of; Pasta al Forno  ( Baked Pasta) it was somewhat like Lasagna with peas, mushrooms, olives and onions, We'd go through a couple loves of Sicilian bread with the delicious butter! Bill had beer or vino. I drank Coca Cola(Original Recipe- now the Pepsi-fied crap of today.

Oh yeah, we rode our motorcycles, our only transport!

Wiley E.,!

Bill and I was stationed together at Naval Air Facility Sigonella, Sicily. Circa 1960. He worked in Ground Support(Meeting visiting aircraft in the yellow FOLLOW ME truck. Among his other duties. His Rating was AMH, which is Aircraft Mechanic Hydraulics. In the Navy you would be placed where you were needed or exploited any skill you had.

I am Bill Thom; AMSC(retired). Aircraft Mechanic Structures Chief Petty Officer. I served 21 years. Some of the most memorable times was spent with Rock E Python, alias William Gunther Wahler.. His concoction!

I have many stories of our exploits in terrorizing the Sicilian country side on our motorcycles, flying the HU16 Albatross sea plane to Tunisia to the USAF Wheelus Air Base's 'WASH RACK'! IT was a Drive Thru! The Air Force Base Exchange was as big as Sig's Admin Area! I flew as Bill's "Second Mechanic' Crewman. Thanks, Bill!

We rode our Motorcycles up thru Europe! I had $184.00 and Bill had $84! That's a story for another time.

As with True Friends, Bill and I stayed connected(we still are) no matter how much time elapsed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY< ROCK!!!

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Happy Birthday Bill 76 today all my love your girl Jean miss you babe

I'll always remember Bill as one of the really great solid guys who I met when I first came to the Eighth Pct . He had a calm reassuring presence and was one of the funniest people I knew . Billy rest in peace , see you down the road .

My husband Larry was friends with Bill for years, he worked with him in the Police Department and always spoke very highly of him, and always commented about how smart of a person he was. I knew how special he was after hearing many stories from Larry and I grew to love him, just as Larry did. I miss Bill very much on my email, and his ability to write stories about loved ones and friends, I even have printed some of his stories he's written and saved them, as they meant so much ! I love you dearest Bill and miss you tremendously. God Bless you and your special family. Remembering you on your birthday of 76 years.

Happy 76th Birthday Dad. So for your birthday we got decals made and named our boat the "Dixie Bull" crossbones and all. Just for you. So no matter where we are, you'll be with us on the water always!! Missing you terribly on your special day. We love you so very much! Veronica Leigh & Brian

Naming our boat the Dixie Bull Dad. In memory of you and your favorite pirate! Love you always..

Daddy - Missing you everyday of my life. I see you in the yard as that grayish monarch, is that Grandma with you too? Love you always.

I first meet Bill in 1963 when we both worked at Grumman Aero Space Plant #4. As we got to know each other, we found that we had the same interests, that's where our friendship began.
We both liked working on aircraft, cars and fishing. We both were in the Navy. Sharing some Navy stories , when he said he was stationed in Italy and some of the characters he was stationed with, a name came up of a shipmate I was stationed with at Naval Air Station, Virginia beach.
I remember after our shift on Fridays, we would go into Corona, to some of the clubs be knew.
That's where he meet Jeannie. I don't remember the exact time frame, but on one occasion, Bill spilled a drink all over Jeannie's white pants.
The rest was history..
He was my best man at my wedding and he and Jeannie are the Godparents to my daughter.
AS time went on, Bill stayed at plant #4 and I moved around. One day he said to me Tony, I'm going to take the Nassau County Police Test, why don't you join me, I said NO not interested .
He persisted and i filled out the paperwork.
If it wasn't for Bill's persistence I would never had a career as a Nassau County Police Officer, I am and always will be grateful for that.
Bill, enjoyed reading the dictionary, and it showed in the way he wrote. I often told him, he should have been a writer.
When Bill and Jeannie moved to Florida, he use to tell me about his fishing adventures and how much he enjoyment he had taking Emma fishing.
I could just seem now. in his boat with his captains hat on a cigarette in one hand and a beer close by motoring into the sunset.
Miss you Buddy

Tony

Went outside to sit with Buddy in the sun and started thinking of you and how terrible it must have been for you not to be able to speak clearly what was on your mind. So I looked up and a single big yellow butterfly flew from the right to the left passed me and I swear it just *poof* it vanished right in the air. Was that you? If so, thank you Dad. Thank you for always letting me know you are never far from me.

Saw you today as a small monarch butterfly flying through the yard. I love you so much, visit me everyday if you would please. Always loving, Veronica Leigh

Bill and I met in 1968 when I was assigned to the Eighth Pct. We remained friends, working together, car pooling and spending time
at each others homes. For the past Eight years my wife and I spent at
least 3 months a year in Palm Bay Florida. This gave me time to be with 
him at his home and on the Beach fishing. I'll still go to Palm Bay but there will be a big part of it missing. I Loved William Wahler.

I worked with Bill over 16 years in the 8th and had the greatest times with him. I am sad to say the least . I know we will see each other again in the Big Precinct in the sky. Rest well till then.

Missing you Dad. Love you so much. Good night.

I miss my "ole email pal" very much. His insight and stories added greatly to my day.

Bill was a coworker at FIT Aviation, a constant reminder of what was truly important in this crazy world, a true friend, a compassionate father and husband. He loved his family and was so proud of each one! We would talk about our days as cops, time served in the military, and the changes we had seen during the course of our lives. That New York strength was always there, and we all knew that if we asked him what he thought about something, he would tell us in his own unique way. He loved music, the arts, and was quite gifted (which many did not know). This world was better for having Bill in it. He will be missed by many, but I am hoping when it's our turn, we will see him again and share more.