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for Adolph Moret
Timothy Gabriel
June 11, 2020
To my uncle and fellow pilot...Uncle Dolphe
In these trying times I often think of you and what you had to endure to become a pilot ...and to live life itself. We look at our lives now and complain... But then I imagine what you had to go through. All of us Americans.... And to this day not treated as equals. All we really have is each other. Maybe one day we all will figure that out ....
I often brag about you...and think about you every time I fly...and every time I thank our vets for the privilege of being an American and... what you have given to us.
Love,
Tim
George Bogue
June 4, 2006
My GOOD Friend Gerry (and of course Edie and the girls), I can't begin to express my sorrow at hearing of your Father's passing. Gerry, I didn't really know your Father very well, but what little I do remember (mostly from when we were in High School), was that he always had a smile (and you always had a smile when you talked about him), was always working on a wood related project (a boat I think when I first met him), and came across as caring and fair and of someone to be instantly respected. I don't know how I got all those impressions of him in the few times I saw him, but He was one of those people who created a strong impression. I do know he was one of the very few really "good" people I have ever met.
Please express our deepest condolences to the rest of your family as well.
George, Julie and Georgie (the Bogues)
Lynda Adams
June 1, 2006
Dear Chris and Susan and the entire Moret Family,
I never met your father but remember Susan speaking of him several times and saying what a wonderful man he was.
May he visit you in your dreams real soon and let you know he is okay.
When reading thru the entries of this guest book, it's unanimous that he was a wonderful human being to all who knew him.
Peace be with you Mr. Moret and God bless your family during this very difficult time.
Ivar Bolander
May 30, 2006
Jerry, Edie and Family,
I lost my father a number of years ago and understand what you are going through personally and as a family. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Jeff/Shelly Bolander
dave and Pat Grundman
May 29, 2006
Dearn Eline and the Moret Family,
Dave and I were very saddened to hear of Adolph's passing. He will be missed at St. Elizabeth Seton Church. You were so much a part of it.
I know Dave will miss working with him a lot. I will miss his cheerful greetings and genuine caring.
Our prayers and thoughts are with you now and always.
We're sure that Adolph is telling stories and cheering up those in heaven and maybe even building something up there.
He was one of the good guys and has left a true legacy.
Ted Keys
May 29, 2006
Jerry,
Im sorry to hear about your sudden loss. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.
God Bless,
Ted Keys and Famnily
Andrea Finerty
May 27, 2006
My thoughts and prayers to the Moret family. Dwight, I have prayed for you in the past and do so now. Andrea
Hedley and Shannon Lawson
May 26, 2006
To the Moret Family,
Our thoughts, prayers and sympathies go out to each and all of you during this time of mourning. May you all find peace in the passing of your husband, father and grandfather, and in celebrating his life.
Gisele Perez
May 26, 2006
There were so many chapters to Doffie’s life. When I was a child and the Moret’s lived in Los Angeles, I rarely saw Doffie even though I spent many an afternoon at their home on St. Andrew’s, playing Old Maid, Battle or Go Fish with Mel and Teresa. With 10 children to care for, he was almost always working at one of his jobs.
They lived in a small house in what is now considered South Central L.A. They ate in shifts. All the girls slept in one room, and all the boys in another. The older kids, helped with the younger ones- getting them to table, making sure their homework was done, getting them off to school on time. In 1969 they moved to Sonoma County where they purchased an old chicken farm, at the Petaluma- Santa Rosa border, on about an acre of land with a 500 year old oak tree. It proved to be a very good move for them. On my last visit here, Doffie talked about what the property in Santa Rosa had cost then, and what it was worth now, and seemed proud, pleased and even a bit amazed, in his low-key, matter of fact way.
Perhaps because it was an old chicken farm or because of her tremendous green thumb, Eline has always had a great vegetable and herb garden. She loves working in the soil, although it seems she barely works at it, just sticking cuttings and seeds in the ground, and effortlessly, a full bountiful crop grows up. Doffie built her tidy raised boxes for vegetable beds which are full of cabbages, tomatoes and squashes, depending on the time of year. She always has something on the stove to feed me when I’ve visited, usually a pot of some vegetable soup or some wonderful creation from her garden.
It was in the later years, when he was retired and able to enjoy some free time, when I began to know Doffie. In the years since my own father died, he became a sort of surrogate father to me. The first Father’s Day year after my father’s death, I was living in Berkeley and attending culinary school. I drove to Santa Rosa, bringing a cake I had made with me, to spend with the Moret family. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who was looking toward Doffie as a surrogate father that year. His own father had died in the previous year, and while I was at their home, his brother Roy called to wish him a Happy Father’s Day. He said “all my life I’ve had my father to call,” and feeling the loss, he said “so this year I’m calling my older brother”. I took particular note that day, of the measure of admiration and respect with which Doffie spoke of my own father.
I visited regularly over the last 10 years. Doffie came and rescued me once, when my car broke down in Sonoma County. I was on my way to a friend’s wedding and carrying her wedding cake with me, so she owes him a debt of gratitude, as well. He stayed up late waiting for me when I’d be out late working a catering job in Sonoma. Doffie read quite a lot in his later years and often, had some interesting book or chapter of something he’d read recently, to share with me when I ‘d come. If it was a book I had read too, we’d compare notes. And I, in turn, began to sometimes bring him a book I enjoyed.
On my last visit, Doffie had plans to attend an airshow the day I was there, and asked if I would like to accompany him. I’m sure all his family had been to many an airshow with him over the years, and no one was joining him on that particular day.
As we walked through the airshow, he talked about the early chapters of his life, his marriage and learning to fly, going off to be a flight instructor.
He was greeted by so many people that day. I was struck by the great measure of respect with which everyone treated him. There were two former Tuskegee Airmen manning a table at the show, and although both the men were surely younger than Doffie, they both seemed older and feebler. They sprang to their feet with attention though, when Doffie approached the table. Those wartime experiences seemed fresh to them still. Tears welled up in the eyes of one of them as he spoke. He listened quietly and attentively to what they were saying.
There were others who walked up to Dof during the day to introduce themselves to him. Men much younger than he, men who were veterans of wars later than WW II, seemed to know him and ascribe to him some sort of mythic status. He even told me of a man he’d come to know through the airshows, who on the day they met, was wearing a baseball cap with a Confederate flag on it and a T-shirt depicting a lynching. But even this man seemed to bestow Doffie with a respectful kind of friendship when he learned of his Tuskegee background. Doffie never seemed proud or haughty, but was open to everyone, accepting their recognition in that same low-key, matter of fact way.
Well, the book of Doffie’s earthly life is over now, and his name is written in the “Book of Life”. I take comfort in the belief that he is greeted by my father, by his father and all the others gone before him. I, along with so many others, will miss him. The visits to Petaluma Hill Road will never be the same. But I hold the belief (and find comfort in it) that we’ll all be united again one day, where there will be all of eternity to share our new discoveries.
Paul DuPlessis
May 25, 2006
To Eline and her family:
When Mark Anthony eulogized Julius
Caesar, he said: "The evil that men do live after them, and the good is often interred with their bones." This could never be said about Doffie! The good that this
gentle and giving man mnifested in a single lifetime will live for generations to come!That Good,
Eline, is reflected in you and the offspring that you and Doffie gave to this world. I loved him as I love you and your entire family. God bless all of you.
Warren Spikes
May 25, 2006
Jerry, Edie, and Family,
We are sorry about the loss of your father. We both know how it feels.
God bless his memory.
Roy and Jerrie Burgess
May 25, 2006
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
Wayne Whittaker
May 24, 2006
I have thought of you and Dolph many times over the years, and of how radiant you were together. The world is a better place because Dolph was here.
Paul and Gloria Skanchy
May 24, 2006
We are so sorry for the loss of your wonderful husband and father. He touched the lives of the St. Elizabeth Parish family (and all who knew him) in a very special way. God bless you all.
Reiss DuPlessis
May 24, 2006
I've known Doffie as long as I've known myself. He was everything a human being should be.. bright, generous, interesting and fun. His was a perfect example of a life well lived. He was the epitome of what a successful man should be. Everything he did, he did well. He was the perfect husband to my cousin and Godmother, the perfect father to my cousins, the perfect neighbor to those fortunate enough to live close by and the perfect role model for those of us who admired him.
Someone once sent a card to me that said, "To Love is to Remember." Everyone who knew Doffie will always remember him.
Hilton Simon
May 24, 2006
Jerry,
I am awfully sorry to hear about your father.
Mike and Susan Harrow
May 24, 2006
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
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