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June 24, 2014 Last Updated January 31, 2015

As we are missing my husband, Gilbert Ives, your Dad Ives and your Grandpa Ives, I have some thoughts to share with you.

When we were married, you accepted him in as part of our family. He had expressed to me with tears in his eyes, how well you treated him and how much it meant to him.

Throughout the years he felt apart of and enjoyed:

 The new babies as they were born into our family.
 All the birthdays parties.
 Grandparents Day at school.
 Band concerts.
 All the ball games:  T-Ball, Softball, Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Volleyball. 
 Church plays.
 Graduations both high school and college and graduation parties.
 Weddings.   
 All of the family gatherings for picnics and dinners on holidays.
 The many dinner invitations. 
 The trips we shared with various family members, such as:
      Houseboating
      Western trip
      Ohio
      Texas
      Tennessee
       Kentucky
       North Carolina
       New Hampshire
       Northern Michigan
       Amish area in Ohio
       Shipshiwana, Indiana
       Cincinnati, Ohio

Many thanks for the help so many willingly have given over the years:

 For our yard
 For our garden
 For our house
 For repairs
 For being chauffeurs
 For help in several emergency situations and you so willing came to help.
 For being listening ears, when that was needed.
 For caring for cats and getting the mail and paper, when we were away. 
 For the prayers, help, loving support through his surgeries, illnesses and his last months of life.
 For the grandsons serving as pallbearers.     

He loved each and every one of you.

Lots of love to each of you. Mom/Grandma Ives