Larry Gail Dickerson 11-20-40 / 09-05-05
My dad would have been 70 today.
He was not perfect, he made a lot of mistakes.. (a LOT) but he was my daddy.
He was a career Navy man. We traveled a little, he traveled more.
We lived in California (Dublin, Santa Paula, Oxnard, Alameda) ,
Guam (where I was born),
Kodiak, Alaska, (My favorite place!)
Carswell AFB, Fort Worth (where our house was, is now a strip mall)
And then Everman, Tx, and Kingsville Tx. Where I got married.
My parents and sisters moved on and lived in San Pedro, CA, Guam again, Mississippi, Virginia,
And then when Dad retired they came back to Texas.
My dad died Labor Day weekend, 2005.
8 weeks after my mother died of cancer.
Dad's death was a suicide.
I was the last person to see him alive. I had no clue....
I miss him a lot. For years I struggled with the guilt, that "I should've known"
I forgive myself now. It wasn't my fault.
But I still miss him.
Happy birthday Daddy.
Love, Stevi
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