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I lost my best TigerFan friend on Thursday morning.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 12:39 am
Posted on 6/5/20 at 12:39 am
He was @ 91 years, 4 months and 12 days old, a two-time graduate of LSU in Physics, B.S. 1949, M.S. 1951, football season ticket holder/attendee for over 40 years, lover of all things purple and gold. He was a girl's best date on a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. When Mom "retired" from going to games, Dad and I started sitting together.
He saw 4 National Championships in his 91 years.
He and my mom met when they were 14 and 15 years old. They knew each other for 76 years.
Please pray for my mom; she has been silent and I know she's heartbroken (Also please pray for my dad.) There are more siblings. We will be strong for her and will get through this.
Reality won't hit me until I can't watch anything LSU with him. The other night, we watched 2007 LSU Florida game on with Jacob Hester, Flynn, Dickson and Steltz commentating and telling stories. Dad laughed when it was revealed that it was Flynn who had found out and released Tebow's phone number.
Thank you for teaching me love and to show passion for LSU sports.
R.I.P. Daddy-O.
He saw 4 National Championships in his 91 years.
He and my mom met when they were 14 and 15 years old. They knew each other for 76 years.
Please pray for my mom; she has been silent and I know she's heartbroken (Also please pray for my dad.) There are more siblings. We will be strong for her and will get through this.
Reality won't hit me until I can't watch anything LSU with him. The other night, we watched 2007 LSU Florida game on with Jacob Hester, Flynn, Dickson and Steltz commentating and telling stories. Dad laughed when it was revealed that it was Flynn who had found out and released Tebow's phone number.
Thank you for teaching me love and to show passion for LSU sports.
R.I.P. Daddy-O.
This post was edited on 6/8/20 at 10:25 am
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Posted on 6/5/20 at 12:51 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sorry for your loss
He got to witness a championship :champ:
He got to witness a championship :champ:
Posted on 6/5/20 at 12:53 am to Red Stick Tigress
Damn. Sorry bro.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 12:57 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sorry for your loss.
Condolences and prayers to you and your family.
Condolences and prayers to you and your family.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 1:00 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sounds like an amazing man, father and husband. He lived a long life!! Praying for you and mom.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 1:00 am to Dlab2013
I assume the tigress is female. Lol
Posted on 6/5/20 at 1:03 am to Red Stick Tigress
Very sorry for your loss. Prayers and support to you in your time of need.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 4:06 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sorry for your loss.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 4:13 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sincere condolences, he will always be in your heart.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 4:22 am to Red Stick Tigress
Very sweet post. You honored him well. Prayers sent to you and your family.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 5:35 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sorry for your loss
This post was edited on 6/5/20 at 5:36 am
Posted on 6/5/20 at 5:46 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sounds like a grand life they had together. My sympathies and prayers.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 6:07 am to Red Stick Tigress
Sorry for your loss. Best wishes for you all.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 6:31 am to Red Stick Tigress
My condolences to you and your family.
What a great tribute to a man, a daughter who writes something this wonderful about her dad. I hope my daughters can think this kindly of me when I pass on.
What a great tribute to a man, a daughter who writes something this wonderful about her dad. I hope my daughters can think this kindly of me when I pass on.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 6:54 am to Red Stick Tigress
So sorry for your loss.
So glad the two of you got to share all those times together
So glad the two of you got to share all those times together
Posted on 6/5/20 at 7:09 am to Red Stick Tigress
So sorry for your loss. Prayers sent. I lost dad when I was 35. I will be 70 this year. Tough losing him that early.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 7:22 am to Red Stick Tigress
Wow, that was a tear-jerker! Sorry for your loss, but congratulations on a beautiful relationship. 
Posted on 6/5/20 at 7:23 am to Red Stick Tigress
Thoughts & prayers.
Posted on 6/5/20 at 7:37 am to Red Stick Tigress
I am so sorry to hear this. Looks like he and my dad attended LSU at the same time. (My dad would have turned 90 this year. He started LSU in '47 and graduated in petroleum engineering in '54 after having to take a couple years off due to medical issues.)
Oh, the games they must have seen in Tiger Stadium in those days with Y. A. Tittle playing! Two events I know your dad saw happen as a student at LSU included the first day of classes in 1947 being cancelled due to a hurricane, and a stripper by the name of "Stormy" from New Orleans being brought to perform on campus by one of the students who was running for student government president. (I think you can still find articles and photos of the mild riot that caused when she and her band set up at the Greek theater.)
I can only imagine the stories he had to tell of The Ole War Skule.
Yes, I know what you mean about what you perceive it will be like watching LSU play without him right there. I still think of Dad before and during every LSU game even 27 years after his passing. It's like he's somehow still here with me and right by my side at certain times.
I will definitely keep you and your mother in my prayers here. It's a very hard thing to lose your father. Especially when your father was as good and loving as yours obviously was. Your mother was blessed with a wonderful husband and you were blessed with a fine father.
Forever LSU.
Oh, the games they must have seen in Tiger Stadium in those days with Y. A. Tittle playing! Two events I know your dad saw happen as a student at LSU included the first day of classes in 1947 being cancelled due to a hurricane, and a stripper by the name of "Stormy" from New Orleans being brought to perform on campus by one of the students who was running for student government president. (I think you can still find articles and photos of the mild riot that caused when she and her band set up at the Greek theater.)
I can only imagine the stories he had to tell of The Ole War Skule.
Yes, I know what you mean about what you perceive it will be like watching LSU play without him right there. I still think of Dad before and during every LSU game even 27 years after his passing. It's like he's somehow still here with me and right by my side at certain times.
I will definitely keep you and your mother in my prayers here. It's a very hard thing to lose your father. Especially when your father was as good and loving as yours obviously was. Your mother was blessed with a wonderful husband and you were blessed with a fine father.
Forever LSU.
This post was edited on 6/5/20 at 8:11 am
Posted on 6/5/20 at 7:46 am to VermilionTiger
thanks for sharing him with us ! prayers already sent !
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