Raymond "Dutch" Patten

In loving memory of Raymond "Dutch" Patten, March 20th.

Thinking of you on your birthday.

We thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.

We think of you in silence, we often speak your name.

All we have are memories, and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake, with which we will never part.

God has you in His keeping, we have you in our hearts.

A million times we've wanted you.

A million times we cried.

If love could only have save you, you never would have died.

It broke our hearts to lose you, but you didn't go alone.

For a part of us went with you... the day God called you Home.