July 21 2014-8

From Jeni

Dear All,

I only hope that all these emails are as comforting to all of you as they are to me. I was so happy when I heard Diane baked a cake for Dad as I so desperately wanted this day to continue to be about Zaida....then I saw all these unbelievable, heart warming emails full of love and laughter. Thank Gd the tissue box wasn't far away.

I wish I had that one story I could pull from the memory bank.....

Maybe my dad as a HUSBAND...It could be watching my Dad take such amazing care of Mama always and forever as the "Coffee Fairy" or the grocery shopper (who had to call Mama from the grocery store incessantly to make sure he didn't bring home the wrong thing) or getting upset if she was upset or laughing until he cried just because she found something funny, or covering her with a blanket because she was cold or getting frustrated like a little kid because for some reason or another mama wasn't happy about something and he just couldn't be happy.

Or maybe it was him as a FATHER, tucking me in at night as a little girl or sitting on his lap or watching him fold his hankie (as someone else said) or being very careful that his pants not get wrinkled if a grandchild wanted his lap, or his morning/ or post laughter cough (which i have unfortunately inherited) or the smell of his aramis aftershave wafting through the house or the checks he would leave for mary nelson consistently on the counter in the kitchen throughout my life, that then became two checks because he bought her a car and was paying the car payments (but not sure we were ever told that because he just did things with no fan fare because he felt it was the right thing to do) or really never remember having been denied anything and always knowing that my parents were behind me 100%, and my dad sitting at the type writer typing/"correcting"/ writing my papers for me!!! Or the penny he returned to the store where we purchased something because it wasn't honest to keep it.

Or my dad as a BUSINESS MAN and COMMUNITY SERVANT! Honest, upstanding, loved by all, a proud Jew, meticulous, lover of jokes (that were so embellished each time he retold it that it had almost changed from its original telling),lover of people and loved by all, but most of all by all of us!!! Who love him and miss him and take great comfort in knowing that his incredible, quiet and noble deeds have given him a front row seat right next to Hashem!!! How lucky can we will be to have merited having a father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, husband, uncle, friend and boss like our ZaidA!!!

Happy bday dad! Hope the pizza is good up there!!!