From Uncle Jack

Dear Richard,  My heart is heavy and sad to hear your news.  I  pray for your comfort and peace.  It seems like yesterday when I met you and Dion in June of 1962 before our wedding and what a handsome boy participated in our July 28, 1962 event.  I have attached a picture from the wedding and hope it comes through intact.  That was the beginning of 56 1/2 years of joy ending in a painful loss but I treasure our lives together and my wonderful connection with the Thompson family, a family that I love.  Thank you for being Richard and following your heart and for being a loving father and husband. I am too familiar with your illness, I lost my father at 91 and my brother at 60 from pancreatic cancer.

I offer my love and support to you, Jillian, and Zac,  --Uncle Jack

Richard and Dion - 07/28/1962