[Woodcarver] Chat about my brother Mike .

[Donna Menke]

Joe,
Your brother must have been a wonderful person. I'll bet your parents were very proud of all their children.
Donna Menke
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--- On Sat, 1/2/10, Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net> wrote:


> From: Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>

> Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Chat about my brother Mike  .

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> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 2:52 PM

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> Thanks Pat and others, for your prayers on my

> brother's passing. My brother 

> Mike (59) died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease only a few

> weeks after his 

> diagnosis. (This is not my brother Pat who sang here with

> his family here at the 

> GPO.) Mike was a very religious man, a good father to

> his 12 kids, a 

> successful business man and a soccer coach who touched

> the lives of many. 

> There were two thousand or more people at his wake and

> about 1,200 at 

> his funeral. The only funeral I know of where police

> had to direct 

> traffic. Mike really set the bar high as far as

> funerals go. I'll be lucky 

> to get 20 at my funeral. LOL. He was a man of few words who

> taught 

> by example. Simple things like when one if his kids

> spoke unkindly about 

> someone Mike would take a stone out of his pocket, which he

> carried with him the 

> last 30 years of his life, and put it on the table. All the

> kids knew the 

> parable, in the bible, about casting the first stone

> which stopped any 

> unkind words or gossip. When he heard his diagnosis, which

> is always fatal, he 

> said that's ok with him. However he did cry for his

> family. He was very cheerful 

> and grateful for the few weeks God gave him in the end. He

> had a very 

> peaceful, beautiful death. I'm very blessed

> to have Mike as a 

> brother.

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>  I'm sorry to hear about the cut on your

> hand. I hope you can get 

> back to carving soon. 

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> I got the altar and ambo (pulpit) finished for the new

> church, in time for 

> Midnight Mass. It was good. I haven't taken any

> pictures yet. When I do I'll 

> post them.

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> Joe Dillett

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>   joe so sorry to hear

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