My father was anything but conventional and because of that, he did not want traditional services. In an effort to respect his wishes, we are celebrating his life privately, in our own way, with tears and his dose of inappropriate humor. If you’d like to honor him, please consider donating to the Alzheimer’s Foundation in his memory or sending condolences to my mother, who fell in love with him when they were children, cared for him each day of this devastating illness, quit her job to stay by his side and watched him take his very last breath.