It just might feel unbelievable that we are really here today for this reason of saying our Earthly goodbye to Dave Thomas to your husband, dad, grandpa, and friend. Yet here we are…and today we want to celebrate a life that touched so many. This illness yes, was not fair, was beyond frustrating, but Dave was so much more than this illness.. Mary, Davey, And Pam, we will not pretend that everything is just fine. We lost a beloved man. And we know we will feel this loss for a long time. God made us so that we can have relationships with one another and when that relationship is lost we feel pain. Together with everyone here, we join you..in grief. We know that your dad would enjoy a room filled with the people he loved so much. So, yes …show more content…
You see, their children came into the family in a very special unique way. Dave and Mary wanted children so much and when he could not happen biological they trusted God had another plan. LOVE opened their hearts to create a family that was not biological, but one that was incredible special. Dave was so excited with they Davey arrived. They wept with joy and the next day Dave went to work and passed out cigars to announce his new baby boy. Everyone asked how much does your baby weigh…well, 17.5 lbs…Everyone gasped and said your poor wife. Davey was already few months old when he became a Thomas. Dave loved his little daughter just as much. He was so proud of her accomplishments in swimming and basketball. He never wanted to miss a single meet or a single game. They even drove to Vincennes for every home game when Pam was in College. Children given to us through adoption are extra special children and parents who welcome us to be their family are God’s gift to us. DAve knew and practiced the importance of love. Dave knew God…He knew God through love…through loving his wife and children..through the listening, the concern and kindness, and through the goodness he received from others…all of you. This is a great way to know God, for the Bible says, “God is
and Dave did not know how to deal with it. He did not know whether she was
David is the author of this auto-biography. He lived the perfect life up until his mother took up drinking at the age of four. Dave enjoyed school and had a wide imagination. He lived a perfect life and was blessed with perfect parents. Everyday was a new adventure filled with fun. He loved his life and his family.
Dave and his brothers Stan and Ronald lived a normal happy life while still young. They lived happily with their m...
It is gratifying to know that you are finally on an Honor Flight; a much deserved token of respect for your service! Hopefully, it proves to be a source of wonderful memories for years to come.
David Berkowitz was born David Falco, the son of Betty Broder. She had married Tony Falco, and had a daughter, Roslyn. The Falcos ran a fish market together, until he left her for another woman. Broder later had an affair with a married real estate agent, Joseph Kleinman. When she became pregnant he threatened to abandon her if she kept the baby, so when David Falco was born, she gave him up for adoption. Three days after Berkowitz was born he was adopted by his adoptive parents Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. Berkowitz was raised in a middle-class home in the Bronx. He had what seemed to be a normal childhood but Berkowitz and his family knew there was something different about him from an early age and at the age of ten Berkowitz started seeing a therapist. Because of adoption policies Berkowitz’s family told him that his birth mother had died in childbirth with him. This haunted Berkowitz his entire life making him suffer from horrible nightmares as a chi...
The boys' environments and mothers have had a significant influence on their maturation. James's poverty stricken conditions and disciplinary mother have caused him to be wise beyond his years. However, Dave's lifestyle and his ability to recognize his mother's weaknesses have been the major causes of his immaturity and irresponsibility.
On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank all of you for your compassion and for being present here today. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Mauri-Lynne, and I'm Lionel's daughter. Dad was devoted to every one of you. We all hope that you'll share your memories of him with us, if not today then in the weeks and months to come.
As a new born, David was adopted and grew up a troubled child. He grew up with the thought that his biological mother had died during childbirth with him and he lived with the guilt and anger of that which is believed to have caused his mental illness. He suffered from depression
Dave was placed with many foster homes, until they finally found a good one for him. He stayed with Turnboughs until he was eighteen. He worked part time jobs most of his teenage years. He eventually started calling the mom and dad. They became his family. He loved them like the where really his family. The meant the wo...
When Dave was younger him and his brothers, Ronald and Stan were happy in a normal family with a loving mom and dad, but as years passed things started to change. Dave’s parents became alcoholics. His father never came home and his mother had lost her brightness and love of life, resorting to alcohol to get through the day. She became miserable to live with. Although she became mean to the kids she focused her anger on Dave. At first she would pit his brothers against him or make him do many chores, but soon her meanness turned to hatred towards Dave.
Dave Pelzer is the survivor of the third worst case of child abuse in California's history. Dave grew up with his two brothers and two parents. Catherine, Dave's mother, loved to cook exotic meals for her family and decorate their home in creative and imaginative ways each holiday season. She was full of energy, often taking her kids on tours of downtown San Francisco while her husband was at work as a fire fighter, exposing them to Golden Gate Park and Chinatown. Once, while on a family camping trip, young Dave was watching the sunset when he felt his mother embrace him from behind and watch the sunset with him over his shoulder. "I never felt as safe and warm as at that moment in time," he recalls.
Dave keeps secrets from his own wife we first see this when Dave tries to talk about what happened to him all those years ago. He says the name of the people that took him for the first time ever Dave says he has never told anyone their names before. Dave also says he had to pretend to be someone else and that’s why part of him died.
Dave's punishments began to evolve. It started with having to sit in a corner of the bedroom, and progressed to the "mirror treatment," in which she would smash his face against the mirror and force him to say he was a bad boy. One Christmas, he only received a couple of gifts, and none from his immediate family. His mother told his brothers that Santa only brings gifts to good children. Things went a step farther when she turned on the stove and held his arms in the flame, telling him, "You've made my life a living hell, now it's time I showed you what hell is like!”
Before I begin I would like to thank all of you here on behalf of my mother, my brother and myself, for your efforts large and small to be here today, to help us mark my fathers passing.
... members I found a way out of the sadness and focused on the happiness of how my uncle did not have to suffer anymore and that he was finally pain free from everything. My uncle was a very loving man and although he did not have much, he always found a way to give everyone a gift on their birthday and Christmas. Although he will be missed greatly I know he is always with me and my family in everywhere we go and in everything we do. I know thinking about death is a scary thing, but the truth is that it happens every day of our lives. The only thing that matters is how you choose to spend the time while you still have it. You should never let a minute go to waste because tomorrow is never promised and you want to cherish every moment while you have it. I will never forget my uncle and all he stood for he was a great loving man who will always be missed greatly.