Richard Gierloff

 

Today we went down to cousin Richard Gierloff's place near Yacolt for his celebration of life.  They had a lot of pictures and drawings he had done for people to take.  Vera chose this one of him hiking.

Not long after we got there Richard's brother Raymond and family arrived.  They are being greeted by Richard's kids, Alisa and Todd.

They had pictures of Richard's life hung all around this tree.  I took pictures of all of them but there were just too many to include here.

Alisa is doing a reading about Richard.  Then she invited others to share funny stories.  One of his classmates from high school had several very funny stories he told.

In the background of the picture above you can see these sacks they wanted everyone to take, the sign was labeled "Richard's Favorite Candy Please Take One".  We took one and there is lots of good candy in it.

This is some of his coworkers from his TV channel 44 days.  Two of them also shared some humorous stories about him.

Raymond's family got together for a four generation picture.

This is called the Club House by the family.  Richard would have groups of kids up there for events.

This is the drawing by Richard that I chose, it kind of reminded me of a pilot in a plane.  We had a very good time, it was a nice relaxed afternoon.