I year ago today my sister’s and I were sitting by our loving dad’s side saying goodbye. I miss him so much and it is the small things. I miss his surprise visits to the house just ’cause, Sunday dinners, him whistling while he worked, him yelling at the guys to get back to work […]

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Today we laid Les Mielcasz to rest. After? It was only appropriate to have lunch at Scott’s Seafood, where he took all his dates. Now we just need a martini.

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Having a wonderful week at the cabin for the 4th! Missing an important part of our time up here, my dad. Love you dad. I miss you!

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href=”http://www.mcclellandfamily.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/dad.jpg”>This if the eulogy that I delivered at the St. Anthony’s church at Les’ memorial service. I post it here mostly as a way to preserve it for the future, but also for the few people that have asked me for a copy of it.

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We are deeply saddened to report that Lester Mielcasz lost his battle with cancer at the age of 83. He spent the last few months of his life at home under hospice care while family and friends visited regularly. His cancer was ultimately not diagnosed, but it was believed to be lung cancer or Mesothelioma. It was his second battle with cancer.

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It took a bit of digging (my Polish ain’t so great), but I was able to figure out that this document is Lisa’s grandmother’s birth certificate. What fun. Now I want to do some more work at Geni.com.

Here’s what my research uncovered (very rough translation):

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District Honor Roll, President’s Academic Award and a special commendation for winning the spelling bee as a 4th grader against 5th and 6th graders: We must be doing something right. Way to go graduate, Patrick! We’re proud of you. Now on to middle school!

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I’ve been having a blast lately going back and reading old posts (for some reason I’ve been focused on 2005 and 2006) and adding pictures to them.

Take a look at crazy cruise pictures from “Hot and Weary in Acapulco”, or look for a great shot of Les getting snockered in

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While memorial weekend at our cabin in Serene Lakes admittedly didn’t bring a lot of tearful memorializing of our men and women serving our Country, it was celebrated the way so many American’s celebrate: with family, barbecues and food. A few of the kids brought friends up which brought our numbers to

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Celebrating Lisa and Karen’s birthdays kid-free at P. F. Changs downtown: Les, Karen, Lisa, Steve, Amy and Steve

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