The eulogy I was HONORED to be able to write for my Daddy, Steve Pardee. Patty Pardee, Dani Pardee, Mike Pardee, Darin Edwards, Jeremiah Edwards, Nathaniel Edwards,Thank you for coming to honor this great man who I am so proud was my dad. Victory. That is the word that sums up my daddy’s existence on this earth. He was a good man, heart and soul. He did everything in this life that he wanted to do. He taught his children everything we needed to know about being honest human beings. About honest scales and measures and about hard work. Most importantly, he taught us everything we needed to know about the narrow path that leads us back to him again. Daddy taught us that the meaning of life itself was to know and love God and to bring HIM glory. It was his life’s greatest passion in his later years and I’m proud to say that my dad wasn’t just a man of God, but that he was and IS a friend of the Lord’s. And this is the most concrete evidence we have of the blessing that was his life: Christ had victory in him and Steve Pardee overcame the world. He checked all the boxes! And he did it with a smile that we all loved to see so much. My daddy was a good man. A good man! And he lived a life that is worthy of celebration and great joy. He is the template against which I will always hold every other man and none will ever hold a candle because Steve Pardee didn’t have to be my daddy, but he was. Unimpeachably, Unswervingly, And as he liked to say, “Indubitably”. He was everything a man and a father should be. Everyone who was blessed to share any time in this life with my father knows that he had a peculiarly brilliant sparkle to his eyes. The kind of sparkle that only comes from a deep peace, from a man with a clean conscience. His laugh was jovial and robust, And when you asked him for advice he would become serious and his brow would show signs of being deep in thought. His advice was always sage, the right thing to do. The hardest thing to do, because it was always in line with God’s word. I will miss his council sooo, so much, But my daddy, Steve Pardee, He didn’t leave a stone unturned!! The mark of the life he lived so well lives in me, that because he lived his life the way he did, I will always know what he would have said anyway. And so I finish with this: Victory. That is your legacy, dad. Thank you so much for being our father, our friend, our brother. For being the man you were, Not a man of words, but of deeds. We love you sooooo much, We will see you again. I love you daddy all the way up to where you are and back again. Thank you so much. I’m so proud to be your daughter. It was an HONOR.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:09:56 +0000
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