Sorry for your losses, lost a very good friend Saturday last week to complications to Rheumatoid arthritis.
Below is the beginning of what I will say at the funeral Tuesday.
Ma Z that is how I know her, the best friend anyone could have. Pat had the brightest eyes and a smile that made you know that you were loved, that her strong hug just confirmed. She and Howard by their example showed how to be loving and caring friends. They taught a lot of us that and to remember that will always keep her alive in my heart.
Forty years of unconditional love of a friend is something of great value to a shy and unsure teenage boy and to this man. Always there if you needed someone to listen.
Mark