Dear, Aunt Stella, Sharlene, Melissa and Derek/ family, our thoughts and prayers are with you all, I never got a chance to say goodbye to you uncle, and thats my biggest regret, I was always thinking and praying for you. I have many uncles, but were the one i grew up with, You were a great husband and father and even as a child I saw that, althought you were the strict one, it never took much for you to give in. I remember one time, mom was babysitting Derek and he had done something, she told him she was going to tell you when you got home that night, but being the protector she was and she knew you meant business, she told all of us to not say a word, so when you got home that night and asked how her day went with the kids, she said everything was fine, those were the days!!!!!I knew you and Aunt Stella were one, when while visiting mom in the hospital, you looked at her and said hun who does she look like, she immediately said Joedee Messina, nobody said that to me since. I will miss you always Rita, Deejay, Tyler and Cougar, xoxoxoxoxo
