Thursday, December 31, 2020
To my dear and best friend Gordon,
We have shared so many precious moments over the last 26 years, from the hunts on Eddie's farm, to the trips to Newfoundland, New Mexico, New Brunswick, Maine, Long Island, Upstate New York, not to mention the long car rides to whereby we had so many intimate and personal talks about so many different topics in this life. I'll never forget how excited you'd get when I'd call you up at ten o'clock at night and tell you I killed a deer and you'd say, excitedly, 'bring it over", and we'd start skinning it together in your garage. You were a very best friend to my family and me, and known and loved by so many of my friends and workers whom came to know you through me. You built a great life for you and your family, and so many times we talked about how you worked 18 hour day for years in order to save for your family's future. You were there when I met my wife, (you told me to marry her) and we shared our lives through love and the ups and downs that come along with it. From a simple cup of coffee in your basement or in my office, just being together for you and I was enough. We shared our lives, and had a genuine love for one another. You are my best friend, my brother, my father, and my family.
We had a special connection, and I believe it was grounded in one simple word, "love". The Bible teaches us through Christ to obey two commandments, to love thy neighbor and to love God. For this we have a promise of a resurrection to a new life, whereby there will be no more pain, suffering and struggling. So although it will be good bye for NOW, we have the hope and promise of our Dear Lord and Savior that one day we will be united again in much better times, in a more perfect world, free of aging process and all the trials that came with it. I look forward to seeing you again in the paradise.
I will sorely miss you Gordon, words alone are inadequet to describe what a loss to the world your passing is. There will be a void that will never get filled, and it will take a long time to get used not being able to dial the phone and get you on the other end. To Elisabeth and Christopher I say this," your father and grandfather was a special man, a loving man, one who touched so many lives, in so many positive ways, and this is how we should remember him". May God in His infinite wisdom grant you strength, hold spirit, to endure this grave loss, that you may be consoled with the promise (and God NEVER lies), that you will be re-united with Gordon at the time of the resurrection. May Gordon's memory be eternal and may he rest in peace.
With love and sadness,
William Dean Callas and Lisa Callas and Family
Better known to Gordon as "Bill"
