John J. Pendergast

Message from Elaine the pain

Happy Father's day Dad
Still miss you everyday. Mom too. But I'll see you again, you said so.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
It's gonna be a wonderful day.
May mr bluebird land on my shoulder 🙏 ♥️
So long
Thanks for being the world's greatest Dad

Message from The pain

Hi Dad and Mom, i don't write on your book mom, sorry. You are sonny's wife 😊❤️❤️ so I write to you as one. You were and still are one united by God. I miss you both every single day I'm breathing. 6 yrs just came up for you dad 😢 mom it's been just 5 short months but feels like 6 years. 2022 didn't end well and 2023 had no chance of beginning well so that's that. Here's hoping things look up.
Until then
I will always look up to the sky and Thank God for everything
I will also look up for you both and my brother's.
Keep sending me hope in signs.
I thought things would be good when I got a breather, but I don't think I got my breather yet. Maybe I never will.
Bit yet this is life. My faith helps me thru. Thanks for that Mom and Dad.
Hey have you guys seen my Maui? I'm so happy to have another GSD. He is a pain right now at 6 mos but so am I at 60 🤣 guess it was a match made in Heaven, right mom?
Love you both and missing you. Pray for us we are praying for you. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

Message from Elaine

Happy Birthday Dad, I miss sharing a cake and wishes with you.
I miss a lot of things about you, and mom. Hope you guys are enjoying the ultimate trip on your birthday.
❤️💚🎅🤶

With love from your Christmas elf
Stop by on my birthday 🧑‍🎄

Message from Elaine

Bet today was a great day in Heaven.
Bet you were so happy to get your lovely bride back.
I also bet the bride was even happier than you.
Happy for you both
Sad for us
But we will be OK
How can we not be?
We all have great genes. The fight gene.
I'm pretty proud of us kids. Bet you are too.
I remembered you were worried about mom.
I told you we'd take care of her.
We did a dam good job.
Give mom our love
❤️

Message from Elaine the Pain

5 years
How can that be?
Just yesterday you were winking at me.
With that twinkle in your eye and a joke or two,
We miss you so much, bet you miss us too.
Time flies since you went to Heaven
Everyones good, even Kevin.
I'll miss you forever, everyone will.
We wont be too long we are all close to the hill.
The day will come we will all laugh and play
Instead of grieving loved ones who went away.

So long Dad
Ps how is Harry?
Still waiting for another fur friend. Can you take my request to the front desk?
Thanks........Love you.

Message from Elaine

Happy Birthday Dad!
I was just at a mass for you. It sounded so good to hear your name read on the altar. I miss you everyday. I look forward to the day we are all together again in heaven. Pray for me dad and all of us kids. We are praying for you. Moms doing well but misses you more than anybody. Everytime I see a Santa I see you. ❤🎅 I hope Harry is being a good boy for you. Give that pretty boy a scratch for me. If you have any Santa power left can you send me a new best friend to love? Thanks Dad. So long for now. I'll be back on Christmas.
Your loving daughter
Elaine

Message from Elaine

Oh PS Dad
The eagle flying with my car leading mom and I was great! Mom and I loved it and you. Keep sending the signs they keep me going. ❤🦅🇺🇸

Message from Elaine

Dad I sent you something, I know you got it. Thanks for letting me know.
Take care of my precious loyal companion until I meet up with you. I miss you and I miss Harry. My consolation is knowing hes with you. Thanks for answering me. Bunny was with me and we were both in agreeance. The eaglet sign said it all. You were a great Dad to me and Harry was a great everything to me. Makes me feel good knowing hes with you. Still waiting for that bark.
Love you both. ❤❤❤🙏

Message from Elaine

Happy Fathers Day Dad!


A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

Thanks for being my light Dad. Your missed everyday by all of us kids and mom.
I'm sending you a gift on Tuesday. Take care of my good pal Harry until I meet up with you. I hope him and Shane get along and share you 💙😊
So Long for now.....Love you Dad 🙏❤

A candle was lit by Elaine on January 20, 2021 11:57 AM

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Hey Dad
Thinking of you just a little more today, which is a whole lot of thinking. Smell the wood burning Dad?
You are missed and thought of everyday. 4 long years today since you went away.
Moms still good. Life is rough at 93 as you know but shes a trooper. Mrs Custer still standing firm in Williamstown! No wonder you 2 made such a great couple.
Thanks for all the eagles you send me. I cant get enough if them! Never saw a one without you in mind. Its great. Love you to heaven and back!
❤ Elaine

Message from Elaine the Christmas Eve Baby

Howdy do Santa Pop
Im praying to Saint Nicholas for a special intention, since you were Santa to so many kids at St. Marys for awhile, as well as our families personal Santa. I thought maybe you could take my intention to the front desk? Leave it in St Nicholas mailbox. I'm not sure my prayers ok to ask but thy will be done. You said it never hurts to ask. Thanks Dad. Miss you still always will.
Love
Santa baby 😄🎅❤

The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic
His giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves.

St. Nicholas of Myra

A candle was lit by Elaine the Pain on July 6, 2020 7:58 AM

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Dad it cut off my Fathers day message! I guess im still talking too much....oh well some things never change. Like missing you!
"My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

Message from Elaine the Pain

Sorry Dad this is late! Better late then never.
I sat by your grave on Fathers day with Mom. We missed you as we do everyday! I just never wrote to you, so here I am.
4th Fathers day without you physically by our sides. Spiritually always by our side. All my love and Fathers day wishes to the Worlds greatest Dad!

Message from Elaine the Pain

Dad...I'm trying so hard. It's not easy but that's how it goes. Nobody here is above suffering...nobody. thank you for the sufferings you endured for Jesus...for your family. I am somehow like you. I want to be you at 93. You knew stuff. Love you. Found a song for US ...Eddie Vedder "Release" he knows things too and makes beautiful music. No matter what we forget in life. We never forget the music.
Ohh ohh
Ohh ohh

I see the world, feel the chill
Which way to go, windowsill
I see the words on a rocking horse of time
I see the birds in the rain, ohh

Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
Oh, dear dad, can you see me now?
I am myself, like you somehow
I'll ride the wave where it takes me
I'll hold the pain, release me
Ohh
Ohh I, ohh ohh

Oh, dear dad, can you see me now?
I am myself like you somehow
I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me
How I've opened up, release me
Release me, release me dad, release me
Ohh ohh I

Message from Elaine the Pain

Hey Dad....Hows the air up there? I bet it's great. 🙏❤😊
Meant to write you the other day and wish you a Happy Anniversary. I didnt forget I was just busy. I did tell Mom. She misses you so as we all do. But we are all doing well. I'm on this journey..and the further I travel the brighter it is. Remember when we climbed Mt Washington? You thought it was so funny that Mom and us kids scooched over to the drivers side to throw our weight into keeping the car from going over the cliffs...haha. it us funny stuff. Wasnt that day. But I've done stuff like that to my own kids. Give them a scare thrill and laugh. You were the best at making people laugh..such a Joker! My life is like that now... ironicly. I'm back in that car hugging the left side sometimes trying to keep the car on the ground! Then you turn around a bend and see the glorious scenery and forget your fears. It's just like that. This time my car is my Faith and the Glorious scenery is God. You forget fear because it is just that beautiful and exhilarating .....Gods face! You hold onto your faith when you turn the next bend and forget the Glory for a moment. So you hug the left and drive on. Because you remember the next bend will rake you back into view. Thanks for being my cheese Dad. God trains us like we train dogs. If you can find a dogs passion, you can use it as a training tool. Like my Harry..he loved sticks! I did not use treats...I did at first until treats (in his case ..cheese,) were not enough. Then I used his passion. Wood 😂 I love that Dog so much. Well it turns out I was no longer learning from treats so God stepped it up. He found my passion...it was missing you! I love you and Mom so very much. I was shown things thru signs....signs from you. Then I realized you were my cheese...my sticks/wood. Hey theres more than one way to skin a cat you used to say. 😊
Imagine that....a parent knowing more than their kids......😂😂😂 I'll keep climbing/driving up my Mt Washington. I want to see the view from the Peak... just like you always wanted to.
Maybe it was pikes peak where this happened? I guess it dint matter. You took us up so many Mountains. I never knew you were a mountain climber or maybe I did. I live the lessons you showed us all. You were truly the worlds greatest Dad. ❤👍😇🕊
Love your yappy kid..
Elaine the Pain

Message from Elaine

Hi Dad......today is 3 long years since I've seen your face. Miss you all the time. We all do. Moms still hanging in there. She really misses you like crazy. I wonder how you are doing up in Heaven. The boys too. It must be a blast. Thanks for the eagles over my house the other day. 2 of them circling. That's never happened ! Got one of my great eagle pics of them ha. You have to send me one closer, like in my face. So I can get my epic eagle pic once and for all! Then I'll stop bugging you too..... no I wont hehe you know me :)
Love you Dad , pray for us. We are praying for you too.

Message from Elaine

Hey Dad
Merry Christmas! I was thinking of you on your Birthday too. I think of you everyday, miss you everyday too. It's not the same without you here. I dont care how old you are. I never wanted you to go. Oh well that's how it goes....right? Moms happy. Shes still holding onto Jersey for dear life. I hope I get my wish. Today's my birthday. We used to celebrate them together and shared a lot of cakes. When I get to blow out a candle today, I'll wish for us both. Tell Gerry and Bob how much they are missed here too. All my Love today and everyday of my life. ❤🎅
Love you Santa

Message from Elaine the Pain

Hey Dad it's just me again Elaone the pain. I always wanted a nickname. Although we were all nicodemus I wanted my own! So I gave myself one because I am a pain. But I think I'm a good pain : ) like when someone makes you laugh and you laugh so hard you cant stop!, then your belly hurts. That's the kind of pain I like to be. I'm working on my silence...haha bullshit youd say because here I am again bugging you! Sorry I dont go away easily, it would require a phone call to the cops! Mom just turned 92! You were right, she became an old lady before you did! That's where I get my sense of humor and words from.....you! Moms doing great and all if us kids are looking after her. We told you not to worry about her. See we were right. You raised 7 fine kids with great morals and hearts. You had help there...mom

Message from Elaine

Dad,
I talk to you everyday. Sorry for bugging you. But that's how it goes.
Theres no switch to turn off love.
You have helped me so much since you left. Just like you always did thru out my life. I will never shut my yap. I am who I am. Mom misses you. Us kids are taking good care of her until she takes that ride to the Lum

Message from Elaine

2 long years without you......
I miss everything about you.
Love you Dad
Pray for us, we are praying for you.
One day, I'll be with you again.

Message from Elaine Cooper

I turn around and I turn around,
Your everywhere,
Yet nowhere .
I feel like such a spoiled brat,
Wanting to tell you this and that.
It isn't fair you had to go
So much more I needed to know.
How does one cry when they were so blessed?
You were 93, how can I stress.
Some never get to even have a Dad
I had you so so long,,,how can I be sad?
My very first grandchild is about to be born
Who will welcome him the way you did?
For each and every beautiful grandkid
It was a song and a smile they got from you,
A welcome to our family and I love you too.
So when he comes, I'll whisper in his ear
If Your Great Pop Pop was near
This is what you'd hear....
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey.....
And with a twinkle in his eye he'd sing to you
Because once upon a time he sang to me too.

Dam I miss you Dad.
I never went an entire year without seeing you.
So long

Message from Loving daughter

I miss you Dad

Message from John Pendergast

To all that knew my Dad what a guy he was a Jack of all trades. As long as I can remember dad worked two jobs to provide for his family. Dad would even let me work with him when I was off from school and I even got paid. When I asked when are we going to have lunch his response was I don’t eat lunch you’re crimping my style, but would still go through a drive thru and get me a burger. Dad got into camping started with a pop up and graduated to a 28 foot trailer. He took the family on many adventures throughout the USA. My parents after all were grown went to Alaska and back two times. If it wasn’t for dad being a Firefighter I probably wouldn’t have traveled that path in my own life what a mistake that would have been. Dad we will miss you and you will never be forgotten. Love John

Message from doug magee

very well said John. Your dad was a Great guy. god bless

Message from George M. Schwartz Family

Very sorry to hear of John's passing. Our condolences to the Pendergast family.

Message from doug magee

Great friend to my dad, mom and me. Good bless the Pendergast family. Rip Mr. Pendergast.

Love
Doug Magee and the Magee family

Expression of Sympathy

A The Color of Memories Table Arrangement was sent on January 23, 2017

Our deepest sympathies for your loss. Lots of Love, The Temler Family.

Message from Phila.Pa. 19111

Our prayers are with all the Family & Friends of John . He was a great Firefighter & good friend , he will be sadly missed by all .

A candle was lit by Jay & Judy Bowen Jr...PFD/Mu-1 on January 23, 2017 1:57 PM

Message from William Wolf

I was truly saddened by the loss of my Uncle Sonny. He and the rest of my family will always be in my prayers.

Message from Marcella and Ned Wolf

We were so sorry to hear of Uncle Sonny's passing. He was blessed with a beautiful wife and wonderful family and was a speciall man. We always enjoyed being in his company. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.

Expression of Sympathy

An A Garden Path was ordered on January 22, 2017