Happy Father’s Day to all Dads in Heaven

Philip d · Jun 21, 2020

Here is my Dad, Erwin Phillips. He loved his family,friends, farming and a good yarn (story) in that order! We miss him and his contagious laugh every day.

Mark-Ia · Jun 21, 2020

My Dad has been gone since Jan 2019. Happy Fathers Day Dad.

john in la · Jun 21, 2020

My Dad. I miss him; his wisdom and leadership every day.
Oh what I would give to just have one more chat with him.

DPittman · Jun 21, 2020

8 years since we laid our Dad to rest. Still miss him, especially when I need someone with more brain than I got.

Steve@Advance · Jun 21, 2020

Lost dad December 24 94.

Happy fathers day!

Repairman60 · Jun 21, 2020

My Dad went home to Heaven 12/26/19. Miss him every day. Love you Daddy.

AzPeapicker · Jun 21, 2020

Can t post pictures but I lost my Dad in 1985 . Miss him as he was a great prankster . Also for his Great knowledge

AZPeapicker

Repairman60 · Jun 21, 2020

Oops can the pic be rotated?

JoeM(GA) · Jun 21, 2020

Amen, lost my Dad in 1992, only got to hold his granddaughter one time, miss that man so much!

islandgreen · Jun 21, 2020

Lost my father in july 1987 still miss him.

John T · Jun 21, 2020

Nice post, here's mine in heaven, raised without him due to effects of The Battle of the Bulge, but had three WW II Vet Uncles who loved me as much as their own........All them and my aunts uncles and even three older or near same age cousins all long gone but the memories I have remain as long as I live.

God Bless America, Happy Fathers Day, I look forward to all of my kids calling me today........

John T

Crazy Horse · Jun 21, 2020

My dad's been gone 23 years this September, photo below was in September of '43 aboard the HMCS Hepatica, a flower class Corvette in the Canadian Navy. Middle sailor on top of the gun. The day of Italy's surrender actually, an extra "tot" of rum for the crew that day.

John T · Jun 21, 2020

Great picture. Reminds me of the Tom Brokaw book "The Greatest Generation"

John T

centash · Jun 21, 2020

My dad passed in Jan 2012. His love for old tractors continues in my brothers and I...just not so much the Case tractors!
Thanks, Dad.

Ben

Crazy Horse · Jun 21, 2020

Well, things were certainly different then John. A pretty young group, my dad would have been 27 and probably older than most of those guys. I think Corvettes had a crew of about 75 sailors. Rum tots were given to every crew member once daily (I think) in the Canadian navy, a British tradition. I don't think it happened on US ships. I recognize my dad's writing along the bottom of that picture, "Splicing the Mainbrace" ..... here's what it means, a Royal Navy term (from a web search).

"A sailing ship's main brace is a rope attached to its main spar. Splicing it (making a connection in it by interweaving strands) would have been a particularly onerous task, and the phrase probably arose from the custom of awarding sailors who did it an extra ration of rum."

Goose · Jun 21, 2020

My dad died on Father's Day, 1985.

One thing he was known for was his sense of humor. For instance, back in the days when no one had a loader tractor, if a farmer had to lift something heavy he rounded up a half dozen neighbors to hump it by hand. My dad had perfect timing. Right at the crucial time when everyone was starting to lift, he'd crack a joke that would immobilize everyone with laughter. They would then have to wait until everyone was composed again to start to lift.

My family has set an interesting pattern. Not all the same year, but my father-in-law died on New Years Day, my mother-in-law on Palm Sunday, one of my uncles on Good Friday, my father on Father's Day, and my sister on St. Patrick's Day.

used red MN · Jun 21, 2020

If there are gravel roads in heaven, which is a stretch, they will have no pot holes. My father who passed away unexpectedly in 2010 at 75 loved his second job of running the township road grader. He loved farming, but I really think he loved the road grading more. He had great pride in sections of the road where he had ..rebuilt the road.. which meant reshaping the ditches and usually raising the road surface. Years later when driving by one of those areas he would comment how nice it is and then explain how it looked before. A devote Christian man willing to unselfishly help anyone in need. In conversation with someone at his funeral I remember them saying if he thought you needed it he would give you the shirt off his back or his last nickel. This is terrible but I can’t post a picture because I didn’t have a smart phone until 2013.

Paul from MI · Jun 21, 2020

Dad passed in Sept.1995 @ 95 years old. He was a poultry farmer and left a legacy of hard work and common sense for my brother and I. Doesn't get any better than that!!

Pete in MD · Jun 21, 2020

My Dad passed away 54 years ago at age 66 when I was 26. I still miss him and think of him often.

37 chief · Jun 22, 2020

Dad died in 1992. He was a farmer all his life. Miss you Dad. Stan

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