time he's really going to be missed there was a very special fellow modest in so many ways yet did so many wonderful things here and i'm reverend david alger and today as you've gathered together is that the space between you will be kind of secrets but there are sacred space between you where you share with each other to share openly with one another and perhaps meet some new friends not all of you know each other a lot of your way to say hello to somebody new because they knew larry too and maybe you knew him in different ways and i think it's really important for you to take time to do that pray with me for a minute would you please good and gracious god bless this occasion in this time that it may indeed be for us a time of remembrance a time of joy a time of thanksgiving for larry's life we have to this week as we come together as we break bread together this bread my nurse your bodies and my strength in us and it might lead us into more fellowship with one another so dear god bless us all each and every one amen amen thank you in everyone there's saint thomas this day oh pierce the good friend of larry's i think we determined i am the oldest friend here and i'm like john we were golfing buddies together and we also had fishing trips up and just every year my sons and one of their friends and we always got patience and took them we had family and lakes and crab and bakes and everything going on and i brought him a plant significant of all the plants up there we had by our motel huge flowers rhubarb family so we'll miss him but we'll get by i hope you're doing down there oh boy hello my name is an apple and it was a pleasure anointing larry i was able to spend a couple hours with him my husband and i and we had a very good conversation w it's a great party larry and thank you christie will remember you forever remember you from hands on and how you cared for the people and community thank some of the things like i has it on camera that you're a butthead he knows now everybody know they're going like we play it back and forth e him in his life in boys i love you guys you guys been in my life for over fifteen years twenty years and that first night i stay the night and poppin want me to i never went home and i appreciate that i'm still here i love you guys with all my heart  that they ended up together wonderful for her and she for him to good people and i'm jenny and this is the lady and she's next you know because the day before i didn't get any response from our so i was happy to get a response larry no any continually ok we always picked on one and so i would go to the house and pick on him there too also you know it was great it was great i'm yeah yeah from layers he's i'm sending each and every one of these was a brother and sister something i learned from him years ago this is called the pile of prayer and it was very near and dear to his heart  forget i want to thank each and every one of you for coming i will get back because i have a few personal thank you that i would like to do for the football team football the can i awesome season that's all i can say so ok i'm going to pass the suppress and for those of you that are over like thirty that's how before television stocks started going twenty four hours a day that's how they get to television around two o'clock in the morning and they had high flight and so close but i first  just a little bit just a little bit ok this is a time she had to get approval for all that i what i do remember about my papa getting very intelligent and he listened to not only my words my stress and everything else i brought to him he made sure he has something positive to set me to leave with and that's something i will always need anything you know i'm here so i just like to thank everybody for coming out today and being able to share the memories about the special man that everybody to love and to know the memories that i will always sure there are so many but  this picture right here that he's making the funny pose he's mimicking me and it was easter we went to the park and you know i was trying to be cute i did a little pose and this is what you mean that got me posing as a very funny spending a lot of the memories and stuff like larry you know they're just really dear to our heart a lot of good memories about education he made sure the education was really really a big factor with myself and also the boys with marcellus and i'm not going to take the speech of that book a but i remember i just recently started going back to school some of you know to further my education able to be in the know the male role model in my life the father that you know i never had the grandfather that my kids never had and you know there's not enough things that we could say just about him he's just a remarkable man he did a lot he accomplished a lot and you can truly say that he lived his life from you know being in the air boy to saving lives to being a father to being you know a husband to being a dad i mean all that so i'm i'm just really glad that we're able to come here and not warn him but really celebrate him you know this is representing the virgin islands this is well who he was this yard the plants you know the love and the friendship and stuff this is really who he was and he was about so you know i just hope that everybody leaves here you know i'm feeling really good that they were able to meet this wonderful man and you know he's resting he's not in pain or anything like that anymore and again i just think everybody for coming out to actually kind of got me because my master's degree we talked about that and also talk about going to japan and teaching and stuff so he sent rock you know you know you got to finish that because you make more money over there if you have a masters degree and by the way if you go back to school for your and i my name is anna carr and i am very thankful to be a it was a long marriage for the start time that idea i can say that he was the greatest grandfather to my two great grand nephew and i know that i have seen him come when he was really realistic and made sure that he was at every or page and that these two years had birthdays it didn't matter what it was but no matter how he felt the pain he made out of they do in the car live with he always made his appearance and i think that was the most wonderful thing that i can see in a grandfather and i think he was the greatest he so cool to be able to watch football with him and him being we call them the super fans and just a couple of one of the things i remember is i have a vuvuzela that will blow the little tykes i have these wow all right there you go ok i will work on that we're just going to really miss him and we're going to love on you guys and we know i wrote i know that he's looking down and he's watching us and he's going to keep all the kid safe and rooting for him and and wow what an opportunity for us to be able to get to know him and and smile with him and laugh with him with his big open laugh thank  ok i know we've got a lot of football family here today the reason why so many of us don't know because from the third or fourth grade year all the way up to last year's championship he was there for everything  i prided myself on making every single practice every single day whether it was raining or not i would show up and i would lay out my little and i would sit down to watch practice and every single car and just was walking down the field to sit right next to me with larry so he didn't miss now one second of his grand kids every single game he was always there like that every practice no matter what it was where he was and the boys  always thought some was wrong or wonder where he was that he was always standing right next to me or were broke out there watching the practice and watching the game so he'll be very well miss by everybody on the team and i know this year they're going to go i was supposed to be a caregiver but it didn't turn out that way i came to visit and i hear your grandmother and grandfather and funny because he was so determined to get it to work and to prove us wrong because we're winning and we couldn't do it without him and we're always going to do without him but it was it was really nice to get to hang out with him when he was because he was amazing like he was always talking and telling stories and really about who is going to school who finish school and i would come over and he would do your homework do your homework leave allows us to be here dad i don't have and you know you will be missed and you know all of them a lot i mean like a lot lot like he's always been there since i was a kid you know and you big but yes i'm special people when i say your name if you stand up precious and my daughter have something to give to you there's no words to say thank you for people who have put in a hard time and these last six months i'm going to say is the hardest time that i've ever put in in my life and so there is nothing i can say or do or give you to show you from my heart to your heart that i could not have got through these six months without each of you i mean you've always done something i've got family members who sat with them i've got a friend who he he wouldn't eat until she came over and she makes him laugh which is carol i've i've got people like kevin kevin myself and misty it's no one will understand the hard times no one no one will understand it so that when i call your name missy and precious are going to hand you something you don't have to open it now all you have to know is it is from larry and i and we love you ok and how to do it right pastor hall he was here he was one of the ministers here that was near and dear to larry's heart and he came but he had already he's been very sick and his wife has to so i don't even know if my daughter knows he came in and then he turned around and left the pastor hawley will be sent barbara is i don't know if you just got to be near food ok longer than him in this short time and i was ready i've always been excited to try a new adventure and my kids are grown and even can't go you're going to stay here and you're going to put in a couple more years so you know when i'm gone you start your treatment i just want thank you from my heart to yours i'm i'm alive because of  you we have there are friends there is somebody elaine here there's always a few of my friends that what i'm in bed everything is shut down they knock on the door and i don't even answer the door now we know why she's not here  come this evening knocking on the door if you know if i have missed anybody it's not because i'm not grateful but these are the people who did the last like i said put in some hard hours of hard times that we'll never be able to explain or talk about because those memories are a truly are we grown he was my he was my friend before he was my husband when i met him i said when i grow up i want to be able to be just like him because he loves hisself he look in the window when the mirror and it wasn't looking for his self he knew who he was he knew where he came from he knew what he had accomplished so he could have his flag and he a lot he could step back and allow me to grow up and be the woman that i am there are so many things we have accomplished and i have i'm a better woman because he was a better make and i will always love you honey i will try not to fall out again like i did yesterday and embarrass our family and this yard we're going to take care of it ok we're going to take care of a baby i love you i talk to you every day i love you  so we're going to put on our own school in the hard on people when they go by but it was a good