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My father passed away yesterday.

Sorry for your loss, lost my Dad at 52 and my Mom at 92, enjoy them when they are here, have many fond memories of both,
 
Very sorry for your loss.
My condolences to you and your family.
May your dad Rest In Peace.
 
Sad to be reading of your loss.

Try and keep his voice alive in your head for as long as possible. He will be missed and things will come up and you will want to hear his thoughts on.
Trust me he will still be there for you.
 
leesonic said:
Good morning,

Yesterday afternoon, I received the sad notice of my father passing. He was 71 years old. I spoke to my aunt in Wisconsin, she had received word from my dad’s cousin in the UK. He was diagnosed with COPD last week, and they found cancer spots on his lungs. When my aunt spoke to him Tuesday, he sounded sick, and had gone into hospital Wednesday night. He was apparently up walking around yesterday, but collapsed and could not be resuscitated. One of his friends was present at the hospital, and told my cousin he had stage 4 lung cancer. That doesn’t happen overnight, so either he didn’t know until it was too late, or wasn’t telling. I found out today that the cause of death was pulmonary embolism.

He had been a smoker since he was 18. We have all tried to get him to stop, but anyone that smokes, has been a smoker, or knows someone who is will know how that goes. I would joke that he would get Christmas cards from his favorite brand of cigarettes, because he was their best customer. He once took a vacation to Spain because the cost of cigarettes there was cheaper than in the UK, so much so he could pay for a flight and hotel as well for the same money.

He had good taste in music, and good taste in cars. As well as classic rock before it was classic (Pink Floyd, Eagles etc.), he also liked funk and soul like The Average White Band, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye etc. He took me to an AWB concert when I was about 11 years old. He owned a bunch of cool cars, probably rare outside of the UK, but he had a couple of Ford Capris (sold as Mercury Capris here from 70-77). Somewhere there is a picture of him in full 1970s regalia : platform heels, wide flared pants, wide lapel shirt and a kipper necktie.

I haven’t seen him since pre-Covid days, for at least three years, but we would speak on the phone every couple of weeks. I spoke to him a few weeks ago, he never mentioned any health problems. I meant to call him over the weekend just passed, but didn’t, and now I wished I had.

My mom is due to arrive here on Sunday for a week, so I have next week off. Her and my dad got divorced when I was very young, my dad remarried 15 years ago. I may end up jumping on a plane when my mom goes back or soon after, to take care of some things.

Lee.
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Sorry for your lose sounds like he lead an interesting and full life may he Rest In Peace
 
leesonic said:
Good morning,

Yesterday afternoon, I received the sad notice of my father passing. He was 71 years old. I spoke to my aunt in Wisconsin, she had received word from my dad’s cousin in the UK. He was diagnosed with COPD last week, and they found cancer spots on his lungs. When my aunt spoke to him Tuesday, he sounded sick, and had gone into hospital Wednesday night. He was apparently up walking around yesterday, but collapsed and could not be resuscitated. One of his friends was present at the hospital, and told my cousin he had stage 4 lung cancer. That doesn’t happen overnight, so either he didn’t know until it was too late, or wasn’t telling. I found out today that the cause of death was pulmonary embolism.

He had been a smoker since he was 18. We have all tried to get him to stop, but anyone that smokes, has been a smoker, or knows someone who is will know how that goes. I would joke that he would get Christmas cards from his favorite brand of cigarettes, because he was their best customer. He once took a vacation to Spain because the cost of cigarettes there was cheaper than in the UK, so much so he could pay for a flight and hotel as well for the same money.

He had good taste in music, and good taste in cars. As well as classic rock before it was classic (Pink Floyd, Eagles etc.), he also liked funk and soul like The Average White Band, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye etc. He took me to an AWB concert when I was about 11 years old. He owned a bunch of cool cars, probably rare outside of the UK, but he had a couple of Ford Capris (sold as Mercury Capris here from 70-77). Somewhere there is a picture of him in full 1970s regalia : platform heels, wide flared pants, wide lapel shirt and a kipper necktie.

I haven’t seen him since pre-Covid days, for at least three years, but we would speak on the phone every couple of weeks. I spoke to him a few weeks ago, he never mentioned any health problems. I meant to call him over the weekend just passed, but didn’t, and now I wished I had.

My mom is due to arrive here on Sunday for a week, so I have next week off. Her and my dad got divorced when I was very young, my dad remarried 15 years ago. I may end up jumping on a plane when my mom goes back or soon after, to take care of some things.

Lee.
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So sorry for your loss, Lee. May your dad rest in peace.
 
My prayers and condolences for you and your family, may he rest in peace.
 
So sorry to hear about your Dad. My prayers go out to you and your family. I lost my Dad a year ago and so I try to think of all the good times we had. God bless.
 
Thank you for sharing your grief with us. My beloved father died at the same age, suffering from blood cancer.

May your Dad rest in peace!

Chris
 
Cigarettes are an abomination.

So sorry to hear this but it's all to common, lost my bride of 32 yrs to lung cancer, Nanette was only 52.

All of my childhood friends that smoked are all now deceased except one, all of the non smokers are still alive, none of the smokers made it to 60.

My Lady Renee lost her brother to lung cancer 5yrs ago, John was 52, in the time since 4 of his close friends have also passed from smoking, none made it passed 55.

We don't need a pandemic, we already have cigarettes.
 
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