I'm inclined to think that condolences are less called for than congratulations on the blessings of a long and good family history.

One would hope for the good things in this life to go on forever, but they don't. Time passes and this life passes.

As my Father, Mother, friends and relatives have passed on, I choose to think of them as having "gone ahead," to wherever we all shall go in time.

Your Father's and your family's time here was good. And that is a blessing. Wherever he has gone, so shall we all, in time.

Jeff Smith