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IN REMEMBRANCE OF CAR WASH MIKE
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Colorado Springs
"Loney Queen"
"Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE
for having known Mike McKernan...and help to ease the pain so many here feel in his untimely passing!
Again...thank you!
Evans
Amen
This was a fantastic idea, bill. I think it helped those of us on the Forum and definitely was appreciated by the family.
Thanks to all who contributed!
I'm still pissed at Mike, but the healing has begun thanks to this weekend
I am finding myself exhausted and drained tonight and wish I had better words to offer here to express my heartfelt thank you and appreciation for the love and support you have shown my brother. Someone commented about this being a celebration of life and that is truly what it has been. My family has talked about the going on's of this thread the past few days, and please know, it has meant a great deal to us, and given us comfort that he had such fine and loving friends in his life.
I can't name only one memory of my brother, but he was the oldest of 4, and I am the youngest(he still treated me like the "baby"). He really was an incredibly giving and sweet brother growing up. I looked up to him, as he did everything well. He has a great student, son, athlete, and brother. All things worthy of looking up. As sweet and generous as I remember him to be, he also roughened me up and taught me to play 3rd base "better than any boy", taught me to play poker with his friends, let me smoke a cigar, and could tease me until it hurt and then laugh at me when MY Irish temper flared - yeah, I have a little of that too!
As a man, he passed my college algebra class for me, when he realized all his patience in the world wouldn't help, so he just did it himself. He was the Godfather to two of my children, loved all of his nieces and nephews with all of his heart, shared the joy of cooking with me (only I not on an egg), still teased until it hurt, liked to engage me in debates of politics and other touchy subjects, and often talked about his egghead friends
We had his funeral today in the Catholic Church we grew up in. The church seemed nearly filled for a Monday service, and while the service was ritual and somber, it was also meaningful and touching.
My family is heartbroken, thank you for the prayers, the kind words, the private emails, the flowers, and for your presence.
Peace and Love to you all,
CWMSIS
Patti
Wichita, KS
These stories and threads have been a joy to read.
Peace and love to you all.
Joe
Never met Mike but knew him from his many posts here. He will be missed, yet I feel that his legacy will live on.
Tim
I like Pig Butts and I can not lie.
"Barbecue is a journey, one meal at a time."
Sometime last year someone had posted this photo of Mike that was as crooked as a dogs hind leg. I copied and straightened it and am sure reposted it to the original photographer and thread. I regret that I can not remember who took the photo and wish they would step forward and claim it. I have not seen it posted in the past week and thought I would add it to the collection.
Gator
John
never can get those straight
Now I remember why I straightened it!!! It puts a crick in my neck to look at the original. :laugh:
That's a great picture DOW . . . no matter how you look at it! :silly: :side: :huh:
Gator
You can close your eyes and pray that he’ll come back, or you can open your eyes & see all he did.
Your heart may be empty because you can’t see him, or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday...
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember him only that he has gone, or you can cherish your memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.
Or, you can do what he’d want; smile, open your eyes, love & go on
found this online and thought it fit..
gee, you sure have heard a lot of rumors :evil:
hey, that WAS Denver
got it later that night... he said he never opened his "big" bottle of Kaluha "just put it on the shelve with my collection"