Father’s Day cheers! — with James Gill, Daniel Oxendine and Zack Gill

What a guy! Cheers brother!

This is how I will always think of him…

Holiday party with the church crew — with Beth

Just hanging with our crew — with Rob, Beth, Stephanie, Jamie and Suzie

Best Friends — with Tom and Jamie

Summer Fun with our church youth group! — with Jamie, Stephanie and Beth

Christmas Dance — with Tom, Jamie (as we knew him then) and Dave

More Senior Prom photos

More Senior Prom photos

Jim’s high school graduation

Jim’s Senior Prom — with Jim and Lori

Posing with Jim & Sarita before their WMCHS graduation… 😊

Jamey – Born a few months after you, I came into a world to find you already waiting here. We met three years later, and I literally haven’t known life without you in it. We were inseparable as kids and even though years, careers and miles tried to keep us apart, technology and love enabled our connection to remain strong. If there was ever an embodiment of “brother-from-another-mother,” you were that brother to me. It seems just yesterday I was recording a video of memories as a surprise for your 50th birthday celebration. The challenge with that task was distilling 47 years of our laughter and tears into a short video without your help. One memory which kept coming to mind was how we’d ride down the road together with the radio up and belt out our favorite songs in an epic duet which wouldn’t earn us any place in a talent competition but earned us a first-place trophy in friendship – every time. The funny part was that you often needed my help to get the words right. However today, it’s you who is guiding me with the words to write as I remember our time together. These memories include your charming charisma and easy smile, genuine humanity and warmth, your quick wit and hearty laugh and your boundless generosity. You also had an uncanny ability to make life and “things” just a little bit easier by helping everyone else with their journey. These are but a few treasures you gifted us in your time in this life, and I’ll never have another friend like you. You were an authentic one-of-a-kind man, husband, father, brother and friend. And so, it seems, true to form and much as you arrived in this world before me, you moved to the next realm first too. While you’re gone too soon, I appreciate you always paving the way for all of us. And “I will see you again…but not yet. Not yet!” – Juba (Djimon Hounsou), Gladiator 

Work friends

With nephew Harrison

Adventures