Cameron’s Remembrance
of Dan

Thanks everyone for being here. It’s real touching to know how many people really cared about my Dad. Instead of thinking about this as a funeral or a memorial service I’d like to think of it as a celebration of his life. Although my Dad was only 44 years old he lived a very full and complete life. He always told me to live each day as if it were my last and that’s exactly what he did everyday. I mean he surfed, snowboarded and wake boarded until he was 44 years old. He definently lived life to its fullest.

A few months ago we had a huge party that a lot of you were at with about three hundred people and my Dad told me afterwards “that’s what you get when your always nice to people and you don’t have an angry bone in whole body.

Besides being everybody’s friend he was a really great father. He provided a great life for us while finding time to coach us in baseball, soccer, flag football, basketball, and high school football.
Besides being one of my best friends and just hanging out, he also taught me a lot about life. He used to tell me I only had one life to live and ask me what I was going to do with it. This is where I got my work ethic from. I chose something I wanted to do which is to play football and my Dad and I looked at every goal I had to achieve physically and mentally to play at the next level.

My Dad did everything for me. He took me on a trip to Oregon to check out a few colleges and meet some coaches because he cared so much about making sure my life would be set up the I wanted it.
I loved my Father more than anything. I just consider myself very blessed to have such a great Dad for 17 years of my life.
You know, you guys have no idea how much he and my Mom loved me and my brother. And how he made sure we had every opportunity at a quality life.

I am so lucky to have had my father in my life and I know he had accepted Jesus into his heart and I thank God everyday that that happened. I’m sure he’s in a better place today and I know we are going to do fine without him because of how he raised us and how he gave us every chance at the best life we could possibly have.

 

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