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for Daniel McDonald
St Columbkille's Alumni
July 23, 2008
To Dan's family ...Our thoughts and prayers are with you...
Melanie Trodella
July 23, 2008
Hello to my long distance Irish relatives! My name is Melanie Trodella, daughter of Marijane Anzalone/Trodella. My Auntie Charlotte Boyland told me a lot about Daniel McDonald (the last McDonald to our family tree). I am sorry to hear about your loss. Although I never had a chance in getting to know Daniel, he sure sounds like a special man. Times may be hard, but at least we have an extended family, in which we can keep his memories alive!
God bless~
Melanie Rose Trodella
Charlotte L. Boyland
July 22, 2008
Dear Cousin Michelle,
I just want you to know I sent a donation to the Elizabeth Seton Residence/Sisters of Charity last nite in memory of your Dad.
Love to your Mom,
Counsin Charlotte
Melinda Gaspari
July 21, 2008
Dan and Family,
May the strength of your family and your memories be of comfort during this difficult time.
With Deepest Sympathy
Charlotte L. (Anzalone) Boyland
July 20, 2008
Dear Aunt Virginia,Young Dan,Virginia Marie, Michelle and Maureen, I am very sorry to hear of
Uncle Dan's passing. He was a very classy man thoughout his life and was a man that always tried to do the right thing. I always likened Uncle Danny's love for his wife as that between Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Totally loyal to each other and always by each other's side. Most people who marry never experience that kind of love for each
other and if so only in the early years of their marriage. Theirs was a the kind of love not everyone could understand as most couples get so involved with pleasing their children they put each other aside. Many others envied the loved they had because they did not understand it. Their love was the
love a man and wife are suppose to have for each other as is written in the Bible.
Thankyou Auntie Virginia and Uncle Dan for the times you let me into your life..........Like the time you
let me come on vacation with you for an entire week when you already had four kids of your own to support and pay for and you took me to the Fair, and Benson's Wild Animal Farm, and Auntie made up a picnic basket with delicious sandwiches. Thankyou for being so generous to my family...I remember how you used to invite us to Greenridge Turkery Farm, my Mother,(AuntieRose), my father,(Uncle Charlie), and my beautiful sister Marijane,and paid for everyone, you,your wife, your four kids, my mom, my dad, and me and my sister.
My mother adored you and called you
"Son" That was your nickname.
Being a kid from a struggling family and living in the Medford projects I really never had been to a "fancy" restaurant before that and when they brought the menu around and you let us pick out our own dessert, whooaa.......a totally new experience...I remember seeing the word "parfait" for the first time and asked you "What's a parfait?" and then all the kids ordered one......I remember you on vacation another time in Marshfield and invited all your 3 sisters, their husbands and all their kids to come to a birthday party and you "hired a majician", wow I thought to myself, How rich are these people that I'm related to.
I remember sitting in your beautifully decorated living room with the art deco lamps as a little girl,and the fancy couch and mahogany coffee table and learning what coasters were for.....as I had not at that point ever lived in a house that had end tables or a coffee table. ............I have some wonderful memories of you and Auntie Virginia ............and I will never forget..........I will always love you .......and all my cousins even when we are not together they are always popping up in my memory and I will always be linked to them in my heart...
your niece, Charlotte
xoxoxoxoxox
Charlotte L. (Anzalone) Boyland
July 20, 2008
Dear Aunt Virginia,Young Dan,Virginia Marie, Michelle and Maureen, I am very sorry to hear of
Uncle Dan's passing. He was a very classy man thoughout his life and was a man that always tried to do the right thing. I always likened Uncle Danny's love for his wife as that between Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Totally loyal to each other and always by each other's side. Most people who marry never experience that kind of love for each
other and if so only in the early years of their marriage. Theirs was a the kind of love not everyone could understand as most couples get so involved with pleasing their children they put each other aside. Many others envied the loved they had because they did not understand it. Their love was the
love a man and wife are suppose to have for each other as is written in the Bible.
Thankyou Auntie Virginia and Uncle Dan for the times you let me into your life..........Like the time you
let me come on vacation with you for an entire week when you already had four kids of your own to support and pay for and you took me to the Fair, and Benson's Wild Animal Farm, and Auntie made up a picnic basket with delicious sandwiches. Thankyou for being so generous to my family...I remember how you used to invite us to Greenridge Turkery Farm, my Mother,(AuntieRose), my father,(Uncle Charlie), and my beautiful sister Marijane,and paid for everyone, you,your wife, your four kids, my mom, my dad, and me and my sister.
My mother adored you and called you
"Son" That was your nickname.
Being a kid from a struggling family and living in the Medford projects I really never had been to a "fancy" restaurant before that and when they brought the menu around and you let us pick out our own dessert, whooaa.......a totally new experience...I remember seeing the word "parfait" for the first time and asked you "What's a parfait?" and then all the kids ordered one......I remember you on vacation another time in Marshfield and invited all your 3 sisters, their husbands and all their kids to come to a birthday party and you "hired a majician", wow I thought to myself, How rich are these people that I'm related to.
I remember sitting in your beautifully decorated living room with the art deco lamps as a little girl,and the fancy couch and mahogany coffee table and leaning what coasters were for.....as I had not at that point ever lived in a house that had end tables or a coffee table. ............I have some wonderful memories of you and Auntie Virginia ............and I will never forget..........I will always love you .......and all my cousins even when we are not together they are always popping up in my memory and I will always linked to them in my heart...
your niece, Charlotte
xoxoxoxoxox
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