Tonight, I thought of my very good and long time friend, Rick Helm, aka Richard L Helm, who died suddenly and unexpectedly from unknown causes.
The only reference I could find.
HELM- Richard Helm passed away March 27, 2012. A.B. Coleman Mortuary, Inc. 5660 Moncrief Road, Jacksonville, FL 32209 (904) 768-0507 Published in the Florida Times-Union on Mar.28 2012 http://www.legacy.com/obi...
This is a picture of Rick and I. I'm so glad I had my hand over his heart. He had such a good heart. I guess I just wanted to feel the love of life he carried around in there.
And even though I am a bit short, Rick was 6'7" tall and easily stood out in a crowd.
After thinking of him, it dawned on me that the only place I'd ever seen Rick online, was at a site I had invited him to called SodaHead. Being I had no where else to memorialize him, I would sometimes go and post things on his wall there. He didn't stay around on that site because, of course, the nasty liberals attacked him right away and he wasn't the sort who would tolerate such uncalled for abuse. It didn't matter, it was someplace I could go visit to show respect.
When he died, I didn't find out until he had already been cremated and there was never any service that I was aware of that his friends could attend and so no closure. He didn't have family in the area. Apparently when he didn't show up for work for a couple of days, his employer called the police and they went over and found him passed away in his bed. His distant relatives came in immediately and had him cremated before I was contacted about him passing on. The way this happened made having a page online, someplace he had actually been, more important to me than it would have been in different circumstances.
Here is a screen shot of what I wrote after hearing of his death and the next couple of things I put on his page. Recently Soda Head shut down to member participation so I went to the site tonight and figured out a way to get to this and thought I wanted to grab it before the site completely removes its past history.
I have more things I want to add about Rick, but now that I am thinking of him and all of the fun associated with being in his company, I want to spend a little time in thought and prayer for him and his beautiful soul.
It just doesn't seem right that such a wonderful guy could come and go without being remembered and memorialized somehow.
(If you were a friend of Rick's and you have something to add please join our site and join this group to add your own memories in tribute.)
RIP Rick... All of your friends loved you buddy! Your life mattered!
He has now moved on to that Eternal Promotion.
Literally" He is doing better than us, these days.