Eulogy (by daughter Karen)

Eulogy 

Thank you all for coming today to honor my father.  It means a lot to me and my brother.  My father would have been very happy to know that his family, friends, and colleagues are here today to say farewell.

My father loved his profession.  He loved being a teacher and a mentor.  He was very proud to be a professor.  When my brother and I were little children, my father would bring us to his classroom and show us around.  We would hide under his podium and watch him teach.  For as long as we could remember, my father had always valued a good education and often urged my brother and me to study hard and to do well in school. 

However, he was also just a “dad”.  On many nights, he would come home late from work and see me sitting at the dining table struggling to finish my homework.  He would look at me and laugh but feel slightly sorry for me and say “do you want me to write a note to your teacher to tell her to stop giving you so much homework?”  Perhaps this was why he moved us to the United States so we would have less homework to do. 

My father instilled in us the importance of education and the love of learning.  For this, we will always be grateful to him.

Again, thank you everyone for coming today to my father’s funeral.  We really appreciate your kind thoughts and words of comfort. 

Karen