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STUBBY O'DONNELL
August 17, 2003
Hi Mike STUBBY O'DONNELL here just wanted to say that i just came home from our buddy dave's wedding and we all had u in ours minds and prayers but the best thing, your seat was there burning high and bright with a candle.my friend i love u and will miss you, just remmember ON THE WAY TO CAPE MAY/AND THOSE WILDWOOD DAYS
Tina Faleshock (Collins)
August 14, 2003
Just a quick note of "thanks" to those of you who have written in Mike's online guest book, as well as the many friends and family members who paid their respects to the Collins Family during Michael's viewing and funeral.
Our family cannot fathom that Mike is gone. We miss him terribly. Your sympathy, prayers, hugs, cards, mass cards, letters and phone calls are such a comfort to us at this time.
Mike was a wonderful father to Shane. We know that he misses Shane terribly. He was a caring and loving son to his mother, father and step-mother. He loved Jen and I so much and was always very protective of us. He was a great friend - always ready with a joke - the life of the party.
We've been reminiscing so much about Mike - my father still recalls teaching Mike how to fish off the railroad tressel in West Wildwood. One time a swarm of green flies attacked Mike - he was about 9 years old - I still remember him running into our shore house screaming with fright. To this day, he still would talk about the time when the green flies attacked him. My mother recalls Mike's happiest time - when he and Michaelene got married and then when Shane was born - he was so proud to be a father. My step-mother loved Mike like her own. She is Italian and makes homemade gravy for Sunday dinner - Mike was always on hand to eat - and no matter how the gravy turned out - he always ate and always told Ann how good it was. My sister, Jen recalls so much about Mike - when they were younger, he always wanted her to scratch his back. "You scratch me", he would say "and then I will scratch your back next". Dutifully, she would scratch his back and when it came for her turn, he would always renig on the deal. As they got older, Jen got wiser and always had him scratch her back first! Christmas was always a wonderful holiday in our home - our parents always made it special for us. Mike would always size up the piles of presents to make sure that his pile was just as high as mine. Sometimes he would count the presents and make sure that they were even! In the summer, the two of us would go up to Kensington Avenue with our wagon and purchase soft pretzels. We would sell them up and down Wensley Street - I would always make Mike sing the soft pretzel jingle - "Fresh Pretzels, already for fresh pretzels"....and he did sing it, at the top of his lungs....
So many memories - but these are a few that our family wanted to share.
Thank you so much again, for all of your thoughts and prayers. Please feel free to email me.
Tina Faleshock (Collins)
Michelle Streeter
August 13, 2003
My dearest cousin,,, may you now know peace... I hear "TAPS" and I think of you~~ You are loved and missed~~ I salute you!
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