Nancy A. Gallagher

Hi, mom! Happy Birthday - our second one without you and they don't get any easier. I hope the heavenly angels have a big cake in your honor. Maybe you, dad, Uncle Frank and the poker club in heaven will play some cards in celebration of your day. Well, mom, this will be my last entry to you in this guest book, as it goes offline in a few days. Just yesterday evening, Dan, Karen and I signed the final papers to close your estate. Thank you for your gifts to the three of us! The attorney...

Hi Mom,

It's been a year and it's not getting much easier here without you. We think of you and dad often.

Siska and Angel are with me now. Sure wish you could have met them. Siska put out the Christmas cards you gave to them last year and we always talk about you.

Missed you a Christmas this year, and except for a little lift given by Angel's and Siska's 1st Christmas with me, I feel very empty inside.
I suppose that will change over time.

Your missing a very...

Dear Mom,
I can't believe it's been a year since you left us. Yet some divine intervention has allowed us to continue to laugh and love as a family, which makes us Gallaghers the luckiest people in the world. We talk of you and dad at every occasion and just recently watched some of Karen and Rick's wedding video with Siska and Angel so that they could see what you both looked like and how you talked. There were a few tears, but mostly smiles! Amy's baby's due in six weeks and I hope...

Dear Mom,
This weekend we celebrated your youngest child's (Karen) 50th birthday with a surprise party for her in Willoughby Hills. It was a work of love from her family and I think she was very surprised. The only shadow on the night was the obvious absence of the loved ones we've lost this year: you, Uncle Frank and Cindy - but I know you all loved Karen too much not to be there in spirit! I felt your presence more than once! Keep a watch on us from heaven, okay? Love, Nancy

Hi, mom! It was our first Thanksgiving dinner without you, but I pictured where you would have sat at the holiday table in Rocky River (Aunt Helen and Uncle Bill's house - now their son's). You sure did like to hang around the table after dinner and talk up a storm!! Back in the "day" all the grownups would light up a cigarette and talk for hours around that huge dining room table. I'd give just about anything to have, say, Thanksgiving 1968 back - I pick that particular year just because...

Hi, mom! Last night the family had our first (her fourth) birthday party for Dan's little girl, Angelina, who has finally come to Ohio to live. Oh how we wish you could have lived to see and hold her. She's a real beauty (like a China doll)! She's not afraid of us in any way and likes to hold my hand when she sees me! And you'd love Siska and would see why Dan married her. She's going to be good for him - he needs someone to take care of him, he just doesn't know it yet!! I know in...

Dear Nancy, Danny, Karen & Family,

I talked to Nancy this morning and she told me it was 5 years today for your Dad and I just wanted to let you all know I was thinking of you. I also think about your Mom so much. I watch the DVD we have from my Dad and there is a picture from when we met your mom & Uncle John for breakfast, it is one of my favorite pictures. I just wanted you all to know that you are always on my mind and in my prayers......
Love,
Frankie

Hi, mom! Today's the 5th anniversary of dad's passing, and I'm wearing one of the two shirts he wore the most (I kept the light green one and Karen kept the light blue one). It's so nice to feel dad close to my heart, but you're both never far from there anyways. I love and miss you both very much. Love, Nancy

Hi, mom! Well, your oldest daughter turned 54 last week, exactly four months after God took you home. But it didn't feel like a "happy" birthday because the person who gave "birth" to me was missing. And, you know the "family" lost Cindy on May 5th - I hope you and dad were there to greet her like "second parents" as she passed through the gates to heaven. Her time came suddenly and too soon, so maybe you can reassure her that everyone will make sure her family is taken care of in her...