Mike's Obituary

[Pete53]

Dear Hadit Friends:

I cannot tell you how much your support has meant to me these last few days. As of today all of Mike's Brothers and Sisters are here in El Paso as well as many friends and as his funeral is expected to fill the Church.

I plan to go back to Dallas on last plane on Thursday and on Saturday drive to Oklahoma to attend graveside services. After it is over I will return home and hibernate for a few days.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/elpasotim...p;pid=137958840

My Sister in Law is doing better now and so are the rest of us. The one thing we have is Love and we are strong enough to get through this together.

Thank you all.

Pete

[Capt.]

Hello Pete,,,,, I just got on to see this as I am fighting another infection over the last 3 weeks and have not been on the board and just did not know what was happening. I am greatly saddened and offer you words that only God can use to fill the heart of someone or those who have suffered a lose like you and your family. "Be strong and of good courage....." for the battle is not ours but the Lord". He will get you thru this Pete. I know there are so many around you right now that are counting on your strength to help them get thru this extremly difficult time. Rest in the Lord.........This will be on my prayer list and the church prayer list this week. If there is something I can do or that you need me to do please email me privately and I will do what it takes. God Bless and keep you and your family safe. "Let not your hearts be troubled, in my fathers house are many mansions .If I go , I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also." John 14 from our Lord himself.

[navydoc2]

Pete I want to say I'm sorry for your loss and you and your family are in my prayers. I know what its like to lose someone close to you especially during this season having loss both my parents on Thanksgiving day twenty years apart. You are right the love that you have for each other is what sustains you, that and the memories that you can hold onto. God Bless

/doc

[Wings]

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Thank you Pete. I took a moment to sign the guestbook. I lost my baby brother 3 years ago, and can appreciate the depth of your feelings at this time. Love to you, ~Wings

[free_spirit_etc]

A Hero Going Home

"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

Tecumtha (1768? - 5 October 1813)

[Pete53]

Free thank you and very fitting his wife and her family are from the Nation and his resting place will be with her tribe.

Mike had no enemies and he was a good friend and a better brother. They expect that his funeral will be a large one. All of his Brothers and Sisters are gathered to offer comfort and support to his wife and his two sons.

Tonight I will return to Dallas and on Saturday will leave for Shawnee Oklahoma with my wife and all my kids and grand kids in a caravan.

We will miss our dear Brother and today I hope that we all do him proud.

[free_spirit_etc]

Pete,

Speaking as a widow, Mike's wife is blessed to have you and your family surrounding her with your love and protection right now. Even with your own grief, you have done so much to comfort her. It adds a touch of sweet to that overwhelming bitter sweetness that death brings.

And I am sure the holidays make it harder. I found myself missing my sister so much this Christmas.

My avatar right now is my sister and I saying goodbye when I went to see her in Oklahoma Christmas 2004. (I am the one in the pink hat ). Though I didn't know it at the time; that was our last goodbye. My sister died the following February, about a week before I was going to be able to visit her again.

I am so glad my husband snapped that picture. Because when I look at it I think, if I knew at the time that would be the last minute I spent with her, I would be spending it exactly the same way.

My thoughts and prayers stay with you. And I admire how you honor your brother.

Free

Edited December 31, 2009 by free_spirit_etc