Hi Dad! Wherever you are.

In Honor and Memory of

My Father who passed away on August 14th, 1997

Carl Edward Smith, Senior

In 2003 our family was faced with an additional trauma.

The angels knocked on our Mother's door and wanted her to come home to be with Dad.

The doctors took to long to finalize their diagnosis.

Mom is not with us any more, but I know that Dad was waiting for her.

Dad loved Mom with all his heart, and even though he was not always good at showing it, I know that his love was genuine, as was Mom's.

Mom is now with Dad, so we all have to accept this fate.

I have wept, but I know that it will was God's will, and that Mom and Dad were always meant to be together.

Our hopes that Mom would pull through and live for quite a few more years was not as great as the need of our Father who art in Heaven, who has matters which Mom needs to help with.

The Lord calls home those who he needs to fulfill his promise, that he has went to prepare a place for us.

If it were not so, he would not have told us it were so.

God Bless our Family, and help us to endure what lies ahead, as we work on accepting our Mother's fate and God's will.

Click here to go to a memorial page for Mom, just as this one was created for Dad in 1997.

There will be a link from this page as well as from our family web site to get to Mom's memorial web page.

Poem below by Nicolas Gordan

Here are all your children in one place,
Enshrined behind some glass within a frame.
A picture's like a word, a sign, a name,
Symbolic of a much more complex grace.
Years of memories lie behind each face,
A wild sea no blessing can contain;
Years and years of love, of joy, of pain,
Of mysteries no heart can hope to trace.
Here are all the objects of your love,
A frozen section cut away from Time,
A summit between dreams and memories,
Which you need only look this way to climb;
An icon for domestic reveries
Through which a thousand answered prayers move.

Dad,
You were not always easy to love,
You did things sometimes that we did not understand,
We still knew that under your gruff exterior,
Beat the heart of a great and caring man.

We did not always make your life easy Dad,
But you were the Greatest, Dad.

You loved us the best way you knew how,
We all realized it then, we realize it more now.

Even when it seemed we did not care,
You were always there.

You were there when we made you proud,
You were there when we let you down,
You were there for all of us, your voice strong and loud,
With caring advice that was always safe and sound.

Sometimes we thought your ways were old and outdated,
And at times we could not reason,
There were times without you, we would not have made it,
You helped us make it through season to season.

Even though you were not always easy to love,
And you did things sometimes that we did not understand,
We still knew that under that gruff exterior,
Beat the heart of a GREAT and CARING man!!

With All of Our Love

In Memory of
Carl Edward Smith, Senior

Passed away on 8/14/97

We Love You Dad
And
We Miss You