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Mary
May 13, 2025
Hi Mike. Five years-doesn´t seem possible. Still miss you all the time. Rest peacefully. Love, sister Mary T.
Marilyn Higgins
May 17, 2024
You are in my morning prayers Michael. Remembering a Trailways bus ride to Auburn, grateful to have spent some of my youth with you.
M Gillings
May 17, 2024
I miss hearing your voice and seeing your Irish eyes smiling. Until we meet again.
Margaret
Mary
May 16, 2024
Hi Mike: Difficult to believe four years have passed already. We all still miss you so much. Hope you're in heaven having a grand old time with all of our loved ones. Much love, Mary T.
Neil Black
May 13, 2024
Still remember Mike and the fun we had growing up
Diane Dooley
September 23, 2022
Happy Birthday... a little gift for you... part of a poem from The Kabir Book which we read together in 1977...
" How lucky Kabir is , that surrounded by all this joy, he sings in his own little boat. His poems amount to one soul meeting another. These songs are about forgetting dying and loss. They rise above both coming in and going out."
Diane Dooley
May 16, 2022
Michael,
I think of you (and Patrick) often.
Two years in, I hope, as much as ever, a place exists where souls meet again. XX
Marilyn Higgins
May 13, 2022
Thinking of you Michael. Grateful to have been your friend.
Cathy Brochu
May 13, 2022
Michael,
I think of you every so often ....... I smile ....... I chuckle and dry the tears. I know that you are looking down from heaven with that wonderful smile and wishing us all a good day.
Miss you!
Marilyn Higgins
September 6, 2021
I was sad not to be there yesterday. Michael brought so much joy to this world. My memories of him are precious happy ones.
Diane Dooley
May 14, 2021
Michael, you provided so much for us to treasure: your irrepressible smile, your kindness, generosity, sense of humor, your gleeful appreciation of irony and so much more. In your presence, life was an adventure. So many of my happiest days were spent with you. I envision you now, on the other side, smiling again, with Patrick close by. Love you both.
Mary Gillings
May 13, 2021
Difficult to believe it’s been almost a year since we lost you, Mike. I miss not talking to you and hear you call me MT. I’m sure you’re making friends and regaling them with your many stories. Rest in peace, sweet brother. Mary T.
Thomas Gillings
June 3, 2020
Brother Michael, I miss both you and Patrick, but hope to be with you when my time comes.
Mike Malone
May 24, 2020
My best memories of Michael are from way back in the days before California. He was an uncommonly gracious and gregarious man, a deep soul who within moments of meeting you could put you at ease and make you feel special. Laughter came to Michael as easy as breathing and he was always generous with praise and warmth. In those early days it seemed that the world was his oyster. On the long and winding road from those days till now there have been victories and disappointments, angels and demons, love and heartbreak, but Michael carried the weight as good as any and he kept the faith better than most. One of the last times I saw him was at his mothers 90th birthday party. He still had his boyish good looks and those unforgettable penetrating prankster eyes and within moments, as always , he put me at ease and made me feel special.
My condolences to Tom, Peggy, Mary, and Kathy.
Peace and love,
Mike Malone
Margaret Gillings (Peggy)
May 24, 2020
Thank you to all who posted. I know he felt the same way about you, Diane. He will be sincerely missed, but never forgotten.
Neil A Black
May 24, 2020
Michael, his brother Pat my brother Ted and I spent much time at their house forming many fond memories. A sad lost but they will remain in my mind.
Colleen Havill Reed
May 23, 2020
Mary, Peggy and Gillings Family, I am so sorry for the loss of your brother. My sincere condolences.
Colleen
Cathy Brochu
May 22, 2020
Michael was kind, sensitive, and had a great sense of humor. He could make anyone laugh.
My sincere heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.
Michael - spread your wings and fly!
Diane Dooley
May 21, 2020
Will always remember Michael as one of the loveliest human beings to have walked this earth.
Patricia Howe
May 21, 2020
Mike was a nice guy and great classmate... my condolences to his family
Pat Dawley Howe
ACA Class of '68
Carolyn Stillman
May 21, 2020
Peggy, I'm so sorry for your loss. Thinking of you and your family as you celebrate Michael's life.
Denise Pagano
May 20, 2020
He was a classmate and friend of mine. He was a real sweetheart and will be missed. ♥ RIP.
Chuck Lincoln
May 20, 2020
Rest in Peace old friend. I still laugh at the jug wine incident, I always remeber your great sense of humor.
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