Daniel C. "Dan" Petrie Jr.

I remember the great times we had traveling through Mexico during the summer between the freshman and sophmore years of college. We had a great apartment in Mexico City, had a portable battery operated record player, and Dan's guitar to sing folk songs to the ladies in Acupulco.

May God help you and yours through this time.

My sincere condolences to Danny's family. I attended Sunrise and Ft. Lauderdale High with Danny. He was a great guy and he will be missed by all of us.

Although he was president of our senior class I'll always remember Danny for his music. We sang in Choristers together for two years and got to make the incredible trip to New York to sing at the '64 World Fair. He also was a part of the Gleemen's "90 Bod" trip to Jacksonville in January of '65. I also remember the trio with Gary Gendron and Carl Colby. Hard to believe that two of them are gone now.

I send my deepest sympathies to all of Dan's family, particularly his children, Dylan and Danielle. I had the pleasure of teaching Danielle in kindergarten and remember her dad, Dan, as being a loving and kind parent, sincere in his efforts to guide her in the best possible way. I know he will be missed by so many.

I am sorry to lose an old friend and extend my sympathies to his family and friends. I fondly remember the many thrashings I received during junior and senior high school from Dan on the tennis and basketball courts and sometimes catching his laser-like football passes. I crack a Dan-like smile when I recall our shared summer adventures traveling in Mexico, singing and guitar picking for meals and occasional tips along the way. Then there were those college and law school adventures on the...

I had the pleasure of working as Dan's paralegal when he was with the Weaver firm. He taught me so much and I am grateful for the opportunity I had to work with him - he was a brilliant attorney. I then made the decision to move back to Indiana and I was there for ten years. Last year I returned to South Florida and Dan and I developed a very special relationship, one that I will never forget. Some people touch your heart in such a way that you are never the same again. I am blessed that he...

Although, I had not seen Dan for some time, I still remember him as a leader throughout our Lauderdale High years.

Sincere condolences to the entire family.

While employed at Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, I was Dan's secretary from 1976 until 1981, when I moved out west. He was probably the best "boss" I ever had. I found him to be hard working and very diligent at his job, but very funny when it was appropriate. Dylan was quite young and Danielle was born during this time. He really loved his kids and told me once that children were just "small adults" and they deserved to be treated as such. I never forgot that. Although I hadn't been in touch...