Thanksgiving Memorial thread...

[thom1102]

I was posting in another thread when something reminded me of my father. So I wanted to start a thread where we can memorialize our family members who won't be with us at the table this year...

My Dad
G (my mother's mom)
P-pa (my mother's dad)
Fletch (my father's mom)
Grumpy (my father's dad)

I miss you guys!

Love,
Thom

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. My cousin's mom

We like her more than the woman my uncle married . We miss her . She departed from this life 4 years ago this month . We always think about her around this time :)

[qanda]

2. My two uncles, James and Joseph

They were with us last Thanksgiving, but are now gone. Makes me dread the thought of who won't be here next year this time. But, makes me appreciate every moment I spend with my loved ones.

Rest in Peace, You Are Missed!

[TheZoo]

3. Marie

[SiobhanClancy]

4. Too many..

My Dad
My Mom
My brother
My son
Grandparents,uncles,aunts
I'm thankful for them,and for the ones left..mainly a sister and a daughter(and two cats:)

[Rainbowreflect]

5. My sister-in-law.

She passed away in August.
I was just thinking how this time last year no one didn't even know she was ill and now she is gone.

[thom1102]

6. That's how it was with my father...

He started feeling sick in January, they diagnosed him in May and he was gone in June. This was eight years ago... he was only 49. It's a shame.

[UrbScotty]

7. My dog, Bonnie.

She wouldn't be at the table, of course, but she would always ask for food.

My grandma would often give her some! ;-)

[thom1102]

8. God! How could I forget!

My Calvin's brother- Hobbes, who passed away last year!

I miss you buddy!

Thanks for the wake up call, ih8thegop.

[supernova]

9. My Mom, My Dad

Both sets of Grandparents. But I do have my sister and her family and my brother and his family.

[LuLu550]

10. My father Frank

has died, all three of my brothers live far away, and my children usually go to their father's family.
Thanksgiving is never very much fun for me.

[Faygo Kid]

14. My sympathies. I am with you.

See my later post. I always loved Thanksgiving; now it is a reflection of what has been lost.

[thom1102]

17. The spirit of thanksgiving is to

reflect on the positive things around us in our lives. I started this thread to take a moment to remember those who aren't with us, but as sad as these losses make us, we should remember and celebrate the things in our lives that we have: health, love, a home, family, friends. There are so many people in this world who are much less fortunate than even the least fortunate of us, and TG is a time to reflect on that.

So while we may not have everything that we would like, or even need, I am sure that all of us can find something we can be thankful for.

Have a peaceful and Happy Thanksgiving.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Thanks for reminding me. This year is tough.

At 52, I have a lot of memories. I didn't expect this year to be as tough as it has been regarding Thanksgiving. I feel a tremendous sense of loss and mortality this year. Not able to do much today. I am surprised at myself. Some tears may fall; but as a native Detroiter, I always have a Lions loss to bear me up. Strange how important that game has become, as part of continuity in my life. So many friends and family gone, yet that is a constant, going back to when I was a kid and went to the games at Tiger Stadium. More than a game, I guess.

[VOX]

29. Right there with you, faygokid. It has been a *tough* year...

My Mom's death, disposing of all her stuff -- a lifetime of accumulation -- and selling her home, hers since 1948.

This all allowed my wife and me to get into our own house, but the price is that my mom's not here anymore. It's such a total disconnect -- holidays?? No mom???

Hang in there, it will get better -- :toast:

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

11. My wife's Aunt and Uncle...

Both very robust upstate New York folks. Both passed away out West in the early part of the year. We saw Aunt Carol last year twice, and some wonderful pictures of her with my daughter we taken (but not yet scanned.) Seeing Ms. Charlotte made Aunt Carol very happy indeed.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. Too many!

Mike (my brother)
All 4 of my grandparents
My dad
Randy (one of my best friends)
Michael Richman (my "Supreme" friend)
David Sudjian (my high school best friend's husband)
Mickey (my beloved kitty)

[Faygo Kid]

13. Mom (died in September)

The woman could cook. Nursing home last few years. A great woman; first woman in Detroit to win War Production Board award in WWII(Eleanor Roosevelt came just to congratulate her).
Also, Uncle Bob and Aunt Kay (went to the Lions' game with Uncle Bob every year. Long gone, but miss them both).
Great aunts Edith and Anna
My grandma, who died in 1975
Long ago friends from 30 years ago who were regular visitors
The begging dogs: Tippy, Penny, Mitzi, Portia and Sasha.
Will be spending Thanksgiving with friends (thank God), but miss family, especially my 27 year old daughter, now in Tampa, who watches one football game a year: the Lions on Thanksgiving Day. A family tradition. Bless you all!

[Bunny]

15. My dad.

He died in February. I miss you dad.

[Booberdawg]

16. My son

But we'll say something to remember you, honeybunch. :hi:

[VOX]

18. My Mom (died last Feb.) and my aunt Jo (Mom's sister)...

These two gals could whoop it up.

Although my aunt was two years older than my mom, they were like twins -- they had to touch base every single day or things wouldn't feel right for them.

They both had a great run of it. They were intelligent and hip, silly and elegant, funny and profound -- and they are deeply missed.

We will raise a glass to them both at dinner.

:toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. My Grandfather Veryl (Bud), my father in law Bill, a friend from

high school's daughter Jamie, and little 3 year old Cameryn, lost to a brain tumor last week.

Great thread idea Thom

[Faygo Kid]

21. My deepest sympathies.

We all have to put it in perspective, I guess, but I don't think that makes it any easier on an individual basis. Bless you, and take care.

[terrya]

22. My Dad.

My Dad died of cancer this past June.

I miss him so much.

Love,
T

[buddhamama]

23. my Mother

my Grandmother
my Grandfather

i would not be the person i am today without them.

[flamingyouth]

24. Thank you for posting this

I'm getting very teary-eyed reading about the people we've all lost (too many have lost children). I want to wish you all peace for this holiday and to say that I for one am very thankful to the admins here for all of their work keeping DU going, and especially to all of the wonderful folks here whom I love so much.

And, I will remember my dear, departed grandmother who always made the driest turkey (think Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation) and always laughed about it. She had the biggest heart in the world and after she passed away all the neighborhood pets came looking for her (she was well known for giving them, as she put it "a little extra something.") :loveya:

[Faygo Kid]

25. Tears: It's not just politics here. So many memories.

I have never been as moved by a thread on DU as this one. We all suffer losses, I guess, and we all treasure memories. And that is life. Damn. But, isn't it worth the tears to have been able to have had these memories, and these people in our lives? It makes us human. And it drives us to value life, and to stand for what we stand for, and against the injustices we see all around us. Without these experiences and memories, we just wouldn't care. And that is the greatest thanks we can give to those memorialized here.

[Coventina]

26. My mother

Who died of a long illness in June.
Her passing has profoundly affected me in ways that I never anticipated.

I am also holding in my heart my Great-Aunt Virginia, who is dying of cancer. I lived with her while I was going to college, back in the early 90s. Funny how when you are young you think people are going to live forever. I am very afraid that this is my Great-Aunt's last Thanksgiving....

[nini]

27. I like to think they're there in spirit....

My Dad - left us 5 years ago. Still miss him.
My StepMom who died about 8 weeks after my dad.

all 4 grandparents and some aunts and uncles.



I will also remember all the families of the troops killed in Iraq - this has got to be a hard time for them with the holidays coming up. To feel that loss over such Haliburtons' money - I don't think I could ever get over that.

[Kahuna]

28. My Dad, Brothers Eddie and Mike, Nephews Eric and

Jeremy, dear friend Sammyrah, Uncle Larry, Aunts: Doris, Jessie, Lillian and Ruth, my ex husband Greg.

You are all remembered at each gathering and greatly missed.

[Logansquare]

30. Dad, gone 12 years

I still miss you, and wish I could feel your strong arms wrap around me. Your earthly remains lie on the hill under the tulip tree, but I hope you are with us in spirit at the table tomorrow.

[thom1102]

31. kick

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. kick

[solinvictus]

33. My Granny

I miss her every day. She was a New Dealer who helped show me the error of my Republican ways. :-(

[thom1102]

34. Kick for the evening crowd

[Padraig18]

35. My mother and father, and both grandfathers.

May they rest in peace.

[scarlet_owl]

36. My great-grandmother who we lost this year.

Her name was Clara Brown, (or NuNu as we all called her), and she was wonderful. I look exactly like she did when she was young and I miss her terribly. I still dream about her and I even asked her advice while making her favorite cookies the other day. They came out great! She really was the head of our family and now she is with her husband and her son. God bless you, NuNu.

[Philostopher]

37. Thanks so much for thinking of this, Thom.

Strangely enough, one of the people I always miss around the holidays is my late ex-mother-in-law. She was a great woman and I still miss her, even though I split with her son seven years ago, and she's been gone for over fifteen years. She died very young, I think she was only 45, and my ex's whole family fell apart once she was gone.

All my grandparents were gone by 1982, my maternal grandfather died ten years before I was even born -- all four were born in the 19th Century, though my maternal grandmother did make it to 96. She couldn't boil water without burning it -- somebody else always cooked holiday meals while she sat and reminisced, and that was okay with all of us.

My father's mother was a grand cook in the old, Depression-era Midwestern style. Which is to say, everything was deep fried or cooked with lard. Hazle, you didn't even think much of me because I looked like my mother, but I learned more from you than my sister or my brother, and I still remember to put ice cubes in the pie crust water. Works like a charm.

I desperately miss my father, who was already dying the last Thanksgiving we were able to spend together as a family back in 1996. He wasn't ill long before he died -- he found out he was terminal in August and died on December 20th.

As my father's headstone says, 'See you later!'