Condolences
 

To all the wannabees and willabees out there, this thread only confirms the kind souls that we will meet in The Villages! Unbelievable! Our sympathies and prayers to Steve's family

Peg & Bob
CT

Rip
 

You can never retire to early. Enjoy life while you can. Steve was way to young! RIP

"vio con dios"

Pauline and I send our condolences to his family

We think it is an appropriate way to honor our members no longer with us for a multitude of reasons. What do you think, Talk Hosts???

There have been a few times in my blessed life when darkness fell and it seemed there would never again be joy. This poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has eased my soul countless times.

I didn't know Steve or his family. But like many here, my heart grieves for his family because we know the mournful pain of loss. Love nor money can help us escape this truth. These memories of loved ones passed are but reminders to us all that we have no promise of tomorrow.

Enjoy life my TOTV friends. It goes by fast. My prayers go up for Steve's family and friends that they can find comfort in each other in each passing day.

The Reaper And The Flowers

There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

``Shall I have nought that is fair?'' saith he;
``Have nought but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again.''

He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
He bound them in his sheaves.

``My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,''
The Reaper said, and smiled;
``Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child.

``They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear.''

And the mother gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.

O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

my condolences to Steve's family, he will truly be missed. it would be nice to hear from jan regarding the change to a members status after they have passed....RIP Steve.....gn

It's has already been done.

I know we don't say this often enough, but thank you, Jan, Tony and Darrell...you have made my very unpleasant beginning of my day, so much happier at the end of it.

Thank you also for this wonderful forum and for the friends we (I) have made over the past 3 years and for allowing us to take pleasure in using the vision that you had in creating this forum. This fantastic suggestion from Frank has developed another milestone in the history of TOTV - a great milestone.... that of recognizing and remembering our departed members in memorium.

I love this too!

I really don't have the words to say how saddened I am to hear about Steve. He really was a nice guy and will be sorely missed.

Rest in peace Steve.
My thoughts and prayers to the family.

Tony, Jan, Darrell??? What about Muncle, I know you changed Steve's title to Eternal Member but can we do the same for Muncle?? He was sooo loved by so many of us!! Pleaseeee, pretty pleeeaseeeee.....???

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