In Memory of Maurice Patrick Kelly

Hey Dad,

I've been thinking of you like I do every day! I'm in the city now, waiting for mom to finalize all this cancer stuff. Wish you were here for support! I also got a job recently and am starting Monday. I'm nervous but definitely excited. Please guide me to do well and strive for even higher goals. We all miss you each and every day.... Love you, and keep me heading in the right direction.

Love always, your little girl
<3 Danielle

*** Posted by Danielle Kelly on 2010-05-07 ***

Maurice,

You have no idea how your children need and miss you. I am having a hard time doing this by myself.... I know they love me, too! Whatever happened with use our kids are great, and I know you are also proud.... I MISS YOU!

Judi

*** Posted by Judi Kelly on 2010-03-06 ***

Hi Dad,

It's coming to a new year, and I've been thinking about you all the time. I really wish you were here to celebrate the holidays with the family. It really just isn't the same anymore since you're not here. There's no more "find the golden egg in the tree." I should really bring that back. I guess there's always next year. Anyways, a lot of changes have been happening, which I'm sure you can see from up there because I know you are always watching over me. Some good things and some bad things, but like you taught me, I'm always trying to keep my head up.

One thing I ask you to please help me with is getting this job. I have my last interview coming soon, and I really wanna get myself going. So please, please make some miracle happen if you can. Anything would help.

I love you and miss you very much. I wish you were here every day. Please also watch over mom, and you know why. Please just make sure that everything is okay. I love you so much, and please keep making me stronger every day. Even when I feel weak, please keep pushing me along to strive for my goals and dreams.

Miss ya, dad! <3
Happy 2010, daddy. xoxoxoxo.

*** Posted by Danielle Kelly on 2009-12-31 ***

Dad I miss you and cause of the rain I am watching the ceremony on TV. I can't even explain how I get around this time of year. My feelings are all over the place. I know you already know but I'm in my second semester of grad school and pushing myself even more for you. Sean is also in college and loving and Tommy is completing high school. We all miss you soo much. Thank you for giving me the strength to be who I am. Thank you for also having me recognize the great people I have in my life today. They are my angels on earth.
I love you. There isn't a day I wish you weren't here. Please keep watching over the family and bless us with health and happiness.

*** Posted by Danielle Kelly on 2009-09-11 ***

Just thinking of you dad. Wish you were here. I'm doing okay, though some things could be better—but also things could be a lot worse, so I can't complain to the extreme right now. Just wish I had some more things set in place or more things stable, but one day it will be, and I know that. I don't know how, when, with whom, or where I'll be, or what exactly I'll be doing, but it all settles at one point after a ton of craziness, I'm thinking. ... Right now I'm just going wherever life may take me at this point, but I'm appreciating everything and everyone I come across along the way. There's a reason things happen or why people come and go, whether it's for good or bad. Good things bring special moments and memories; bad things bring us life lessons and regrets to some. (Though I never regret. Why hold anger or guilt within yourself? I don't like focusing on something that makes me miserable; I just learn from it). Yet the bad things lead to strength.... So then I tend to question, are the bad things really that bad if I am growing from it? Or is it how I handle it and look at things that I do grow from it while maybe others can't handle certain things.... But then again, it shows they aren't as strong as they may have perceived, or they have negative views.... I don't know. Life is weird, I guess, and I guess there is a reason why some people are stronger mentally and emotionally than others.... But I do know happiness within myself first is the key to life, even though it sounds selfish—we all are technically alone. We live for ourselves and let others into our lives, but only being happy within yourself is what can make you truly happy with others, and not using others as a distraction or an "escape" to run away from your own problems. Ignoring the real problem(s) only can last so long. As you can obviously tell, Dad, I do a lot of thinking lol—maybe a little too much. I guess I'm just piecing things together or comprising a book lol. I don't know, but a book sounds awfully good to me lol ... but anyways, I miss you and love you. Please keep watching over the family and me. <3

*** Posted by Danielle Kelly on 2009-04-27 ***

Love you, Dad! <3

... things are actually turning around for me, or, well, maybe I'm turning myself around. Either way, I am happier. Thank you for watching over me and making me the person I am today. You raised me right, and I know I'm on the right track to my dreams. I can look in the mirror today and think I've done what I'm supposed to do, and there is only more to come! Thank you for helping me develop into a good, honest, patient, caring, creative, observant, and especially strong person I see myself as. =] Thank you for you teaching me love, compassion, honesty, and morals. I hope in my future to help others and guide them like you are guiding me to happiness. Strong was deff in the Kelly gene, dad. You really were the strongest person in every way (mind, body, soul) that I will ever know and always remember. You're in my heart, and I miss you and love you! <3

*** Posted by Danielle Kelly on 2009-02-19 ***

I really miss you Dad. =/ Could use you around here right about now: Things are kinda hectic, confusing, straining, ... uh ... everything! But I'm still completing my homework on time, and I know there is no excuse for a B (sorry for my many excuses in college then lol). Grad school is a new chapter, so maybe I can pull out them A's, and I'm double majoring =] be proud! Yeah, one more thing: You said if any boy messed with me, you'd kill them. You missed a couple killings, dad. I'd accept beatings, though. Killing is kinda harsh! lol I guess that's the punishment for the B's! lol. Mom's right: Sean is a replica of you in about every way! I looked at some old pics yesterday, and it was like, "OMG, it's Sean!" Tommy is the combo kid: He was so little when all this happened =/ but he truly misses you, and some of his gestures like his walk is deff like you. I do have your sense of humor, going out of our way to make someone's nightmare come true and then laugh lol. Like when you thought it was funny (which it was, lol) to scare Sean with the Halloween mask by wearing it, popping out randomly, and Sean standing, screaming, and running everywhere. "Get it away! Ahhhhh!" LOL. It was hilarious. I helped ya, and when he slept, I hid the mask under his pillow, and so when he woke up he saw the green hair under the pillow and bugged out. Then, yeah, Sean was petrified of masks and wouldn't walk into the Halloween store. Yeah, corruption deff took place. Ohhh, another thing: Showing mom's Cher lip sync to the world. Yeah, that was really funny, and she hated it while ... um ... we laughed, lol. BTW, she magically lost that video—aka probably smashed it, lol. Remember Tommy got mad at Sean at your apt? So he took Sean's tight purple underwear and wore it on his head running around the house when Sean's new friends were over saying, "Look, I'm Sean! Look at my underwear, it's purpleee!"—then proceeded to rip out the Barney on the butt ones, and, yeah, I did help instigate. Sorry lol. Or Sean not being able to pronounce "tr" and "d's," so truck and duck became—you know, lol. Sean kicking over the training potty 'cause he didn't wanna use it. He would throw that thing across the room, "NO!" lol... Oh, the good ole days! Imagine what things we could do now. Yeah, wouldn't be good, lol. Helped talking to you—actually laughed. The underwear thing got me going, lol. It's a vivid memory. Can't forget little tommy two bottles with purple underwear on his head.

Miss you and love you! Please help me with, uh, life, and steer me the right way to happiness. <3

*** Posted by Danielle on 2009-02-11 ***

I was married to Maurice for almost 19 years. We have 3 children: our daughter, Danielle, now 23, and two boys: Sean, 16, and Tom, 14. I miss him more than anyone could understand. I know he is watching over us. He would be sooo proud of them. I wish you were here to help me raise them. It's hard going this route alone.

Anyway, everyone misses you! Your son Sean looks and acts like you. Tom is a mixture of both of us, and of course, Danielle favors me in looks but has your sense of humor.

We love you. I'll visit again to keep you updated.

All our love forever,
Judi, Danielle, Sean, and Tom

*** Posted by judi kelly on 2007-12-29 ***

Daddy I love you! and i miss you so much! i had no idea about this website or i would have visited it over a hundred times.  Sean, Tommy, and Mom will all hear about this.  I can't explain how much I need you everyday, my throat gets tight when I think about it.  I kno heaven has to be treating you well and I hope you're with Grandma up there.  I know you are watching all of us from above because I feel you all around me and in an odd way you are still there to talk to because I know you are listening.  All I ask is to help Mom, Sean, and Tommy then if you have time come and help me with my crazy life.  I love you Dad! all my love, kisses, hugs, everything<3

*** Posted by Danielle Kelly on 2006-04-17 ***

To Mr. Kelly. I am too named Maurice Kelly...born in raised in North Jersey. I now live in the DC area. Prayers go out to your family and friends with hopes that they handle this everlasting grief daily. I truly empathize, for I could have been the other Maurice Kelly to be in the WTC on 9/11 two years ago.

Blessings,
(the other) Maurice Kelly

*** Posted by Maurice A. Kelly on 2003-09-11 ***