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Francis Richard Sudol
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A candle was lit by Bobbie Gaudes
on August 12, 2015 8:23 PM
A candle was lit by Dolores & Larry Williams
on August 7, 2015 3:08 PM
Message from Katy & Russ Fischer
August 5, 2015 5:12 PM
Thinking of you, with our sympathies.
A candle was lit by Katy ^ Russ Fischer
on August 5, 2015 5:10 PM
Message from Jane Garbera, Debra, Roger and Meagan
August 4, 2015 3:50 PM
We send our prayers and thoughts to the entire Sudol Family, You are dear friends for many years and we are so sorry for the loss of Richard, your Husband and Dad. May he rest in peace with his Parents and Friends in Heaven.
A candle was lit by Jane Garbera and Debra , Roger and Meagan
on August 4, 2015 3:45 PM
Message from Sylvia M Montero
August 3, 2015 12:26 PM
Dear Michelle,
My deepest sympathies for the loss of your father.
Sincerely,
Sylvia
My deepest sympathies for the loss of your father.
Sincerely,
Sylvia
Message from Linda Adams
August 3, 2015 12:16 PM
Dear Michele,
I am so sorry to hear about your father's passing. He will surely be missed by all. Keep your chin up and remember the important principles that he taught you. Now you need to help your mom out. May he RIP. Linda
I am so sorry to hear about your father's passing. He will surely be missed by all. Keep your chin up and remember the important principles that he taught you. Now you need to help your mom out. May he RIP. Linda
Message from Michele Guttenberger
August 3, 2015 9:26 AM
Today we celebrate the life of my dad Francis Richard Sudol. My father lived by two rules in life 1) To tell it like it is and 2) To put family first. He was born during the height of the depression as an only child. His mother Nellie, emigrated from Poland in the late 1920’s. She married Frank Sudol the handsome son of a social club owner.
After the wedding, they moved into Frank’s parent’s home. Frank had trouble finding work in the 1930’s. It was Nellie who found employment with good wages shortly after the birth of her son. Richards parent’s dreamt of a family home of their own. Nellie felt enormously guilty and sad that she left her new born son in the care of her in-laws.
Richard Sudol would NOT have the stay-at-home mom to raise and comfort him during his childhood. Yet his mother loved him dearly.
His parents focused on the present day happiness. They gave their very best in creating a Catholic American life for their child. Their church was the inspirational center of their lives. The Sudol family saw the importance of their religion and their church in raising a family.
Because of this Richard would meet Bernadette during confirmation.
Bernadette was also an only child too, and that was what initially bonded them together. They remained inseparably in love with each other from the time they meet at 14.
Richard and Bernadette married young, at the ages of 19, and 20. Bernadette’s father suddenly died of a heart attack when she was 19. Now Richard became the only man in her life.
At 24, Richard Sudol became a father to Michele and new homeowner of a two family home next door to Richard’s parents. A year and half later they would have another daughter, Janice.
My father became a Mr. Mom to me in my preschool years. My mother went to work and he went back to school to be a linotype operator. My father spent much time with me in my development years. It’s interesting when an only child raises a daughter. My father had no idea the differences of raising a girl from a boy because he did not have a sister. His grandmother and mother were not your typical female role models. My father raised me with little regard to my state of girlyness. This empowered me to believe I could be whatever I wanted to be – like a cowboy or a doctor. My dad would never say you can’t do that because you are a girl. In his own fantasy we could be whatever we wanted to be as long as we lived with him forever.
My father faced a new era of fatherhood when my brother Mark was born in 1961. His career was secure and now the family moved into a small cape cod. My mom finally got to be a stay at home mom.
Richard loved to take his family of three, on vacations to Niagara Falls and other northern treks. However, printing presses do most of their production at night. My dad was a night shift manager and that meant he was not there for after school occasions. He made up for his absence on Sundays when the entire family went to Sunday Mass. We had the traditional roast beef dinner together afterwards.
4 years after Mark was born Cathy was born. Bernadette called Cathy his present because she was born the day after his birthday.
Just when Richard thought he would be the father of only four, he was surprised to be a father again at the age of 37 to Elizabeth. The Sudol’s then took an interest in the beautiful white mountains of New Hampshire. They had thoughts of a recreational home or maybe a retirement place in the far off future. They bought the first property on Faraway road.
They piled all the kids in the car and went camping. Baby Elizabeth didn’t know that this camp site would be the location of her own future home.
Family camping was a very uncomfortable experience. I got up from the tent in early dawn because nature called, and my parents were afraid that I had been abducted. After that they stayed at motels. When Elizabeth was 9 years old, Richard bought the hunting cabin down the road from his property.
The family also moved into a bigger house in Bloomfield and soon one by one his children would go off to college, get married and leave the big house that he bought to hold his whole family. This was a very hard concept for my father to accept, that his children would grow up and leave him. He told us how lucky we were to have a brother and sisters and that we should always stick together because we are a family.
Through thick or thin, good times or bad we are a family that sticks together. And his children brought him new joy of bringing him new kids to the Sudol homestead of two grand-daughters and two grandsons in alternating order Jennifer, Nestor, Megan and Daniel.
Life was very good for Richard Sudol. His final months brought his whole family together again before going home.
After the wedding, they moved into Frank’s parent’s home. Frank had trouble finding work in the 1930’s. It was Nellie who found employment with good wages shortly after the birth of her son. Richards parent’s dreamt of a family home of their own. Nellie felt enormously guilty and sad that she left her new born son in the care of her in-laws.
Richard Sudol would NOT have the stay-at-home mom to raise and comfort him during his childhood. Yet his mother loved him dearly.
His parents focused on the present day happiness. They gave their very best in creating a Catholic American life for their child. Their church was the inspirational center of their lives. The Sudol family saw the importance of their religion and their church in raising a family.
Because of this Richard would meet Bernadette during confirmation.
Bernadette was also an only child too, and that was what initially bonded them together. They remained inseparably in love with each other from the time they meet at 14.
Richard and Bernadette married young, at the ages of 19, and 20. Bernadette’s father suddenly died of a heart attack when she was 19. Now Richard became the only man in her life.
At 24, Richard Sudol became a father to Michele and new homeowner of a two family home next door to Richard’s parents. A year and half later they would have another daughter, Janice.
My father became a Mr. Mom to me in my preschool years. My mother went to work and he went back to school to be a linotype operator. My father spent much time with me in my development years. It’s interesting when an only child raises a daughter. My father had no idea the differences of raising a girl from a boy because he did not have a sister. His grandmother and mother were not your typical female role models. My father raised me with little regard to my state of girlyness. This empowered me to believe I could be whatever I wanted to be – like a cowboy or a doctor. My dad would never say you can’t do that because you are a girl. In his own fantasy we could be whatever we wanted to be as long as we lived with him forever.
My father faced a new era of fatherhood when my brother Mark was born in 1961. His career was secure and now the family moved into a small cape cod. My mom finally got to be a stay at home mom.
Richard loved to take his family of three, on vacations to Niagara Falls and other northern treks. However, printing presses do most of their production at night. My dad was a night shift manager and that meant he was not there for after school occasions. He made up for his absence on Sundays when the entire family went to Sunday Mass. We had the traditional roast beef dinner together afterwards.
4 years after Mark was born Cathy was born. Bernadette called Cathy his present because she was born the day after his birthday.
Just when Richard thought he would be the father of only four, he was surprised to be a father again at the age of 37 to Elizabeth. The Sudol’s then took an interest in the beautiful white mountains of New Hampshire. They had thoughts of a recreational home or maybe a retirement place in the far off future. They bought the first property on Faraway road.
They piled all the kids in the car and went camping. Baby Elizabeth didn’t know that this camp site would be the location of her own future home.
Family camping was a very uncomfortable experience. I got up from the tent in early dawn because nature called, and my parents were afraid that I had been abducted. After that they stayed at motels. When Elizabeth was 9 years old, Richard bought the hunting cabin down the road from his property.
The family also moved into a bigger house in Bloomfield and soon one by one his children would go off to college, get married and leave the big house that he bought to hold his whole family. This was a very hard concept for my father to accept, that his children would grow up and leave him. He told us how lucky we were to have a brother and sisters and that we should always stick together because we are a family.
Through thick or thin, good times or bad we are a family that sticks together. And his children brought him new joy of bringing him new kids to the Sudol homestead of two grand-daughters and two grandsons in alternating order Jennifer, Nestor, Megan and Daniel.
Life was very good for Richard Sudol. His final months brought his whole family together again before going home.
Message from Linda Paulsen
August 3, 2015 4:51 PM
So sorry to hear of the passing of your father. He is peacefully resting with the angels. What a lovely obituary.
Message from Michele Guttenberger
August 3, 2015 8:39 AM
Today we celebrate the life of my dad Francis Richard Sudol. My father lived by two rules in life 1) To tell it like it is and 2) To put family first. He was born during the height of the depression as an only child. His mother Nellie, emigrated from Poland in the late 1920’s. She married Frank Sudol the handsome son of a social club owner.
After the wedding, they moved into Frank’s parent’s home. Frank had trouble finding work in the 1930’s. It was Nellie who found employment with good wages shortly after the birth of her son. Richards parent’s dreamt of a family home of their own. Nellie felt enormously guilty and sad that she left her new born son in the care of her in-laws.
Richard Sudol would NOT have the stay-at-home mom to raise and comfort him during his childhood. Yet his mother loved him dearly.
His parents focused on the present day happiness. They gave their very best in creating a Catholic American life for their child. Their church was the inspirational center of their lives. The Sudol family saw the importance of their religion and their church in raising a family.
Because of this Richard would meet Bernadette during confirmation.
Bernadette was also an only child too, and that was what initially bonded them together. They remained inseparably in love with each other from the time they meet at 14.
Richard and Bernadette married young, at the ages of 19, and 20. Bernadette’s father suddenly died of a heart attack when she was 19. Now Richard became the only man in her life.
At 24, Richard Sudol became a father to Michele and new homeowner of a two family home next door to Richard’s parents. A year and half later they would have another daughter, Janice.
My father became a Mr. Mom to me in my preschool years. My mother went to work and he went back to school to be a linotype operator. My father spent much time with me in my development years. It’s interesting when an only child raises a daughter. My father had no idea the differences of raising a girl from a boy because he did not have a sister. His grandmother and mother were not your typical female role models. My father raised me with little regard to my state of girlyness. This empowered me to believe I could be whatever I wanted to be – like a cowboy or a doctor. My dad would never say you can’t do that because you are a girl. In his own fantasy we could be whatever we wanted to be as long as we lived with him forever.
My father faced a new era of fatherhood when my brother Mark was born in 1961. His career was secure and now the family moved into a small cape cod. My mom finally got to be a stay at home mom.
Richard loved to take his family of three, on vacations to Niagara Falls and other northern treks. However, printing presses do most of their production at night. My dad was a night shift manager and that meant he was not there for after school occasions. He made up for his absence on Sundays when the entire family went to Sunday Mass. We had the traditional roast beef dinner together afterwards.
4 years after Mark was born Cathy was born. Bernadette called Cathy his present because she was born the day after his birthday.
Just when Richard thought he would be the father of only four, he was surprised to be a father again at the age of 37 to Elizabeth. The Sudol’s then took an interest in the beautiful white mountains of New Hampshire. They had thoughts of a recreational home or maybe a retirement place in the far off future. They bought the first property on Faraway road.
They piled all the kids in the car and went camping. Baby Elizabeth didn’t know that this camp site would be the location of her own future home.
Family camping was a very uncomfortable experience. I got up from the tent in early dawn because nature called, and my parents were afraid that I had been abducted. After that they stayed at motels. When Elizabeth was 9 years old, Richard bought the hunting cabin down the road from his property.
The family also moved into a bigger house in Bloomfield and soon one by one his children would go off to college, get married and leave the big house that he bought to hold his whole family. This was a very hard concept for my father to accept, that his children would grow up and leave him. He told us how lucky we were to have a brother and sisters and that we should always stick together because we are a family.
Through thick or thin, good times or bad we are a family that sticks together. And his children brought him new joy of bringing him new kids to the Sudol homestead of two grand-daughters and two grandsons in alternating order Jennifer, Nestor, Megan and Daniel.
Life was very good for Richard Sudol. His final months brought his whole family together again before going home.
After the wedding, they moved into Frank’s parent’s home. Frank had trouble finding work in the 1930’s. It was Nellie who found employment with good wages shortly after the birth of her son. Richards parent’s dreamt of a family home of their own. Nellie felt enormously guilty and sad that she left her new born son in the care of her in-laws.
Richard Sudol would NOT have the stay-at-home mom to raise and comfort him during his childhood. Yet his mother loved him dearly.
His parents focused on the present day happiness. They gave their very best in creating a Catholic American life for their child. Their church was the inspirational center of their lives. The Sudol family saw the importance of their religion and their church in raising a family.
Because of this Richard would meet Bernadette during confirmation.
Bernadette was also an only child too, and that was what initially bonded them together. They remained inseparably in love with each other from the time they meet at 14.
Richard and Bernadette married young, at the ages of 19, and 20. Bernadette’s father suddenly died of a heart attack when she was 19. Now Richard became the only man in her life.
At 24, Richard Sudol became a father to Michele and new homeowner of a two family home next door to Richard’s parents. A year and half later they would have another daughter, Janice.
My father became a Mr. Mom to me in my preschool years. My mother went to work and he went back to school to be a linotype operator. My father spent much time with me in my development years. It’s interesting when an only child raises a daughter. My father had no idea the differences of raising a girl from a boy because he did not have a sister. His grandmother and mother were not your typical female role models. My father raised me with little regard to my state of girlyness. This empowered me to believe I could be whatever I wanted to be – like a cowboy or a doctor. My dad would never say you can’t do that because you are a girl. In his own fantasy we could be whatever we wanted to be as long as we lived with him forever.
My father faced a new era of fatherhood when my brother Mark was born in 1961. His career was secure and now the family moved into a small cape cod. My mom finally got to be a stay at home mom.
Richard loved to take his family of three, on vacations to Niagara Falls and other northern treks. However, printing presses do most of their production at night. My dad was a night shift manager and that meant he was not there for after school occasions. He made up for his absence on Sundays when the entire family went to Sunday Mass. We had the traditional roast beef dinner together afterwards.
4 years after Mark was born Cathy was born. Bernadette called Cathy his present because she was born the day after his birthday.
Just when Richard thought he would be the father of only four, he was surprised to be a father again at the age of 37 to Elizabeth. The Sudol’s then took an interest in the beautiful white mountains of New Hampshire. They had thoughts of a recreational home or maybe a retirement place in the far off future. They bought the first property on Faraway road.
They piled all the kids in the car and went camping. Baby Elizabeth didn’t know that this camp site would be the location of her own future home.
Family camping was a very uncomfortable experience. I got up from the tent in early dawn because nature called, and my parents were afraid that I had been abducted. After that they stayed at motels. When Elizabeth was 9 years old, Richard bought the hunting cabin down the road from his property.
The family also moved into a bigger house in Bloomfield and soon one by one his children would go off to college, get married and leave the big house that he bought to hold his whole family. This was a very hard concept for my father to accept, that his children would grow up and leave him. He told us how lucky we were to have a brother and sisters and that we should always stick together because we are a family.
Through thick or thin, good times or bad we are a family that sticks together. And his children brought him new joy of bringing him new kids to the Sudol homestead of two grand-daughters and two grandsons in alternating order Jennifer, Nestor, Megan and Daniel.
Life was very good for Richard Sudol. His final months brought his whole family together again before going home.
Message from Anna Christensen
August 4, 2015 1:35 AM
Dearest Michele...so very sorry for Your great great loss...sending much prayer and my deepest condolences 💔🙏💔
A candle was lit by Daughter Michele & Husband Jeffrey Guttenberger
on August 3, 2015 8:35 AM
A candle was lit by Daughter Michele & Husband Jeff Guttenberger
on August 3, 2015 8:34 AM
Message from Michele D'Altilio
August 2, 2015 11:55 AM
Our thoughts and prayer are with the Sudol family at this sad time. May Richard rest in peace.
A candle was lit by Gail Kilner
on August 1, 2015 8:53 AM
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