Precious words from Jim's daughter

Lauren (Jim's daughter) read this at the memorial service:


My name is Lauren. My sister Dana and I would like to share a few of our favorite memories with our Dad….


Every Saturday morning we would make Aunt Jemina pancakes and sausages for breakfast. Then it was time for chores. We called this “Dump and Donuts” because we would always take our trash to the dump, stop and deposit our allowance money at the bank, and then get a Dunkin Munch-kin for a treat!


We loved playing with Dad. He was the best Scrabble and Monopoly player we knew! He could make really cool snow forts and snowmen, and it was SO fun to go sledding with him. All winter long we couldn’t wait for summer so we could go tubing with him behind Grampie’s big blue banana boat! In the Spring, Dad passed down his family tradition of the Ehrlich Easter Egg Smashing Contest, which we look forward to every year.


Our father taught us many great things, like how to fish, how to solve tricky math problems on our homework, how to swim and dive, and how to properly decorate a Christmas tree with globs and globs of tinsel! Most importantly, Dad taught us how much God loves us, and wants us to be like His Son Jesus.


We are going to miss doing lots of our favorite things with Dad, like snuggling together and reading books, dancing to silly songs and watching our favorite movies “Jungle Book” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, and vacationing at the Cape and the lake. We will miss his hugs goodnight and his big smile.


But we know that Dad’s in Heaven, probably stuck somewhere on the back-nine looking for his golf ball, and that he wouldn’t want us to be sad--just remember him and love him forever. And we will…