Here is my eulogy for my Great Uncle Bob who passed in January.

It’s hard to talk about Uncle Bob without talking about Aunt Marilyn, the same way it’s hard to talk about Aunt Marilyn without Uncle Bob. Fifty years of marriage’ll do that. The two of them were so much in love you could just tell it by looking at them. Their love is the sort of love I hope to have myself some day.

I will never forget the kindness they showed me, how much they helped me, and how much they wanted me to succeed. I look back at what I knew of their lives, and granted it was only the tail end, but I see the kindness and love they spread as far and as wide as they could, happy in the knowledge that they had found each other. I saw Uncle Bob only once after Aunt Marilyn passed, at her memorial service here in this church. He was heartbroken, yes, of course, who wouldn’t be, but I confess it seemed to me he was lost. I gave him a eulogy I wrote for Aunt Marilyn and he texted me a story from the last week of Marilyn’s life. Time passed, he sent me a Christmas card and I texted him to thank him and soon after I made a Ridiculous Music Video of Lawrence of Arabia set to Bowie. Awhile back I started making mash-up videos of movie and TV clips set to different music. Now, I only make them every now and again. Uncle Bob told me once that Lawrence of Arabia was his favorite movie. I sent him this Ridiculous Music Video and we texted a little back and forth and that was the last interaction I had with him. I didn’t realize until after he passed that I had to make that video when I did, so that I could talk with him one last time.

It’s hard to talk about Uncle Bob and Aunt Marilyn separately because they were never meant to be separate. They were a team. Marilyn went first on that next great adventure and Uncle Bob needed to join her to see what the next life is all about. They’re together again, you see, and we must take comfort in that. The adventurers are reunited in their next great adventure.