Q: How would you describe Phillip to someone who had never met them?

A: Phil was – A happy person, a good person, a good husband, father, grandfather, a friend. He never met a stranger. He loved to help. Didn’t matter if he knew you or not. He was compassionate, a good listener, a humanitarian. He was a family man. He loved to watch sports with his son’s. He loved spending time with his friend at a bar called Blarnyes Stone. He started going there after work and he started meeting all the regulars and boy did he love to spend time with them and they with him. They became his very good friends.

He raised two step children and he loved them immediately as his own. He went to their parent-teacher-conference when I couldn’t attend. One time, their biological father showed up at the school to pick them up and they refused to give him the kids because they had never seen him around; and they had to call me to verify. Next day, they told me they were dumbfound it because they always thought Phil was their biological father. He was always involved.

Phil was a good provider to me and very generous to all who needed anything; money didn’t faze him. One time he had a student who had a young boy, and she was a single mother. They were not doing well financially, and the little boy had broken his Nintendo switch joystick and was very sad. He called me from work and he asked me to please order this little boy the Nintendo switch joystick. How could I object?! That’s what I loved about him. That’s who my husband was. Money didn’t matter to him if he could put a smile in your face.

He was the best part of me.
My better half. My best friend, my partner, my safe space, my keeper. He babied me and spoiled me. He loved me.

There are no words to capture the essence of how much I miss him.
Until we meet again my beloved. You will always be in my heart and in my thoughts. ❤️❤️