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Dad may not have been connected to me by genetics but most certainly was by love. He never made me feel less that his own. From the moment we met he made me feel wanted. Family was his motivation, regardless of how you became part of it. If God had allowed me to hand pick the man that I would call my father, Russell Smith would have been my choice. Kind, gentile, understanding and ever patient. I am grateful that I had this time to know and love him. He gave me a gift that noone had...
Mary Ann Sheppard
October 18, 2008 | Lackawanna, NY