Today is Christmas and this is the first Christmas that he hadn't been here for 51 years......This is JRs first Christmas without his dad in 30 years so i imagine this is hard for him....He was here in 2006 and he was a healthy man...he bought girls a doll house and Lawton a basket ball game. Jalie wasnt born yet..oh the peaceful times...Larry Sr's life turned upside down the day after Christmas in 2007 with his surgery to remove is gallbladder..that was the day it all started the sickness and a life changing experince for all of us and ecspecially for him.. then he found out that he had cancer....the year 2008 is one of the worst years that i have been through that anyone that was close to him has ever been through...August 11th 2008 Larry went to be with the LORD though we all want him here we all know that he is not suffering, hurting, and being miserable anymore he is in Heaven fishing, picking, and being care free and happy...So please don't ever forget how great of a man he was and always will be... lets remember him for the crazy, sweet, loving, and a well respected man that he is, well we love him and miss him very much and i hope that he is having a good Christmas up there and i hope that he is watching down on his grandkids this year while they open their gifts and everyday for the rest of their lives God Bless you Larry Don Smith Sr and God Speed Rest In Peace Larry I LOVE YOU
we love and miss you everyday and that will never change for the rest of our days on this Earth....
i will never forget his smile, he had the prettiest smile. i am setting here looking at a picture of him, setting in his huge chair. He had the sweetest, kindest, the most contagious laugh that anyone could have. The last time he was at my house i had just made some homemade soup and he dropped a bowl of it on my living room floor. He felt so bad about it. i told him i have four kids that was nothing, well five if you count your son. He laughed well i can't make myself clean it up. this week is going to be tough for me cause i will be cooking some of his favorite chili, he loved my chili. the day the i found out that he had cancer Jr told me that he wanted me to make him some of my chili and you know i never did. and it breaks my heart when i think about it. Larry Sr. is gone and never will he be forgotton, one day we will see him again. Smiling, picking, making us laugh. Oh i can't wat to hear that sweet laugh again, and to hear his voice. HE WAS TO GOOD OF A PERSON TO BE PUT THROUGH SO MUCH PAIN, now he is pain free, and fishing, picking, aggravating, up there enjoying life with out pain. I just hope that he isn't driving them to crazy. i will love and miss him for the rest of my life
I only knew him for two and half years, but it felt like a life time. The first time i met him Jr and I was at the Prosecuters office, i had the worst headache, he asked me if my head hurts real bad i said yes sir. he shook the car and said does it feel better, and then he laughed and said i'm sorry. i had to do it, but that was him, he always joked and made me laugh. it isn't fair that everyone else got to know him longer, but i promise you that i will cherish every minute that i got to spend with him. He would always come to our house, and want me to cook him chilli. i will not cook chilli again without crying. His favorite thing that i would cook would be train wreck, i was told that he talked about that all the time. Trish can't remember what is called so we changed it to Larry wreck. That was his favorite, but he loved my chilli. i will never forget the last week of his life, it was the hardest week that i have ever been through. I didn't go ever there much when he got real sick, cause i didn't know if he was sleeping. i didn't want to be the one to wake him up and make him hurt. Well on August 3rd i went to his house and I woke him up and guess what i made him hurt, but i am gald i woke him up cause i finally got to tell him how i really felt about him. He was lying on the bed on his right side and he saw me and he said hey Chass how are you? I said fine, then i apologised to him for not coming around more i told him that i was scared that i would wake him up and make him hurt, and he said oh! no you wouldn't hurt me, it is always nice to see you, then i told that i loved him very much then he reached his arms out and gave me a hug, and he said i'll be ok i am onary. i said i know with a lil laugh. That was the best moment that i had with the best fathernlaw in the world. On August 6th he proved just how onary he was he got up out of bed i was there by myself, he wouldn't lay down for nothing, he was going to the bathroom, it took me and a nurse that showed up at the right time to get him there, but we got him there. Then Kim sat on his cat. It made him laugh. My sweetest moment was when Jason came and played Every Rose Has its Thron. That was very sweet. Well JR and I will be getting married soon, and you know i dread planning it without him, cause he was going to be the best man. i will miss him everyday for the rest of my life.
Lawton, Kelby, Karter and Jalie will always miss their Papa Smith. Jr has alot of memories that he will get to cherish for the rest of his life, things that a father and son share. I myself will miss him terribly forever and always. it is hard writing this about him, cause he shouldn't be gone, he needs to be at his house in his recliner watching ghost hunters, or the history channel. But i know that he is in a better place he is not hurting anymore, but there are so many hearts out here that are braking without him. i know that he is up in Heaven wishing that everyone wouldn't be so sad, but we can't help it. He had no idea just how many loved and cared about him, there are several people that do. He was a fighter and a strong willed person. It is honor to have him introduce me to people as his daughternlaw. i will always speak of him as my fathernlaw, cause he was. well i know that i will always miss his beautiful smile and his contagious laugh. well i will always love him, miss, and cherish every moment i spent with him, God Bless and God Speed 1902
