Love Of His Life

Jim & Donna Haren

It's impossible to think of Dad without thinking of Mom. The two grew up close to each other in South Buffalo and according to Dad were inseparable from the first time they met. He was a paperboy for the Buffalo Evening News. One day while doing his weekly collections he stopped at a customer's house. He knocked on the door and the customer's youngest sister, who happened to be visiting, answered. That customer eventually became my aunt Grace. Dad never said it was love at first sight, but it certainly was interest at first sight, and that quickly blossomed into love.

Sadly we lost Mom in 2007, but I know Dad's love is undiminished. As I write this I'm sure he's sitting in his favorite chair at Moira's with his favorite picture of Mom by his side.

Mom

Dad

Dig the 70's era avocado! This picture was taken at our house in Maumee, Ohio
Dad spent as much time in the kitchen as Mom did - he loves to cook!
Moira, isn't that your dog in the lower corner?

Left-to-right, Lucille Sass (my mother-in-law), Dad and Mom
This was Roberta's first trip back to the US from Germany,
bringing along a very young Elizabeth to meet her grandparents,
sometime around 1984

At an impromptu family reunion in Ohio back in 1992