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Susan Schwartz
August 1, 2025
I miss you hermano
Jeffrey Gale
January 28, 2025
ROY CHARLES SCHWARTZ
March 31, 1947- August 23, 2004
He is six and so am I. We throw stones at each other across a narrow street, never hitting the target. I know his birthday, he knows mine. I know his middle name.
We both have younger sisters and ignore them as best we can. He plays the clarinet, is a master at scrabble, cheats at cards, and talks too much. I watch and laugh, laugh a lot.
We survive the pre-teens one grade at a time, in a grammar school with slate steps, and real blackboards. We play baseball under the chestnut trees at the train station. We wade into the bay and drag horseshoe crabs onto the beach. We live in Keyport, and we think it´s paradise.
We attend different colleges, we make different friends. He makes the drive to Pittsburgh, sits on my couch and we re-live two decades of history in a millisecond. I listen and laugh, laugh a lot.
Then it´s my turn. Fifty-six hours of driving to visit an old friend. Can this really be Mexico, am I really here. Guadalajara changes him...not at all. We take turns telling jokes and I laugh, laugh a lot.
He becomes the Florida swipe card doctor with a plan, always a plan. He knows the genes, his DNA, are against him. He can do the exercise, just not the diet. Then it´s a bout with gout; a bypass, or two or three.
He is only fifty-seven years old and Roy is dead. There is no more last get together, there is no more Roy. It has been twenty years. Who will tell the next joke, who will lead the laughter?
susa schwartz
January 1, 2019
He was my best friend and brother. Since 2004 I have talked to you,screame st you and forgav you. I cant forget uo
Bernard Gross
September 11, 2004
My sincerest condolences to your family. What a shocking loss of a really good guy!
Dr. Schwartz had been my physician for over 20 years. We became friends and shared additional connections in that we both grew up in the same area of NJ and appeared that we had a lot in common.
He will be greatly missed.
JOHN CAHILL
August 31, 2004
TO THE FAMILY;
MY DEEPEST SYMPATHIES TO THE FAMILY. ROY AND I WERE FRIENDS AS
KIDS AND WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER. IM SO SORRY.
JOHN CAHILL
Donna and Ken Chesler
August 29, 2004
Our condolences to you all. (Ken and Roy became acquainted in college thru David Goldstein.)
Alene Fishbein
August 27, 2004
WE are so very sorry.
Allison Silver
August 26, 2004
Dr Schwartz had been my doctor since I was a young child. He always took special care of my family. We will miss him deeply.
Allison Silver, Lauderhill
Lois Silver, Coconut Creek
Dawn & Larry DiMeola
August 25, 2004
To the family,
In the quiet times to come when the hurt is hard to bear, may the memories you hold dear bring you comfort and your love be your shelter. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Robert Moody
August 25, 2004
Please accept my deepest sympathy and prayers.
John and Marilyn Gwathney
August 25, 2004
Our sincerest sympathy.
John and Marilyn (former patients)
Joan Roberts
August 25, 2004
My deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Dr. Schwartz.
Frank
August 25, 2004
A great Doctor who always took the time to listen and understand.
He will be missed
Nance Cordeiro
August 25, 2004
My deepest sympathies go to Dr. Roys family.
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