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Douglas R. Maze Jr.
August 15, 2008
First my family and I would like to thank you all for coming here and paying your respect to my father. Looking around the room it is easy to see how well thought of he was.
Dad was a lot of things to a lot of different people; to many here he was your coworker, your friend, your brother, your grandpa, father and devoted husband for over49 years, but he was more than that.
He was also your golf buddy, he was your painter, and he was the person you knew would be there if you needed a hand doing anything. To our family he was our provider, our teacher, our protector, our rock and last but not least who could ever forget him as Santa!
I will forever be indebted to him for giving me not only his name but by also acknowledging me by several others like: Jesus Christ, Apple knocker, you Dumb SOB, and the forever infamous Indian nickname, Running Dumb Fudge.
When remembering my father I was trying to think of a few words that best described him and here are the best ones I could come up with: quiet, proud, humble, generous, a fighter and last but not least a family man.
Quiet because anyone that knew him would tell you he was a man of a few words.
Proud not only as a man but very proud of his family.
Humble, he didn’t want acknowledgement for his deeds, just seeing the pleasure or satisfaction in others was enough for him, which is connected to his generous side.
We all know how much of a fighter he was. First being shot as a teenager and being told he would not make it, to two colon cancer surgeries, COPD and too many other battles to mention them all, but he never gave up. He loved life and his family too much.
I personally think being a family man was the most important job my Dad ever had.
He didn’t have a very stable family life as a child and I think that was why it was so important to him for his kids to have that.
It was about 9 years ago when I wrote a letter to my father telling him how now that I had my own son I realized why he was not there for those little things that at the time that seemed so important to me. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to be there, he couldn’t be there because he was working so I could play in those leagues. Or he was working so we could get away for that one week down to Disney World that to this day means the world to me.
Even thought he never graduated high school he taught me more than any college professor I’ve ever had. Because he did not have the education other people had he always felt he had to work longer hours and harder than other people and even thought he might not have been there for my little league games or school activities, he taught me more about being a man and a father than anyone else ever could.
He was a wonderful husband, a great father, a proud grandfather and a generous friend to all. Thank you.
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