Eulogy given by Pat Doocy

I’m not sure when the Doocy family met Jay. Krisha was saying she just always remembered knowing Jay. I only know we met at church sometime ago.

Jay was a very unique character, if you knew Jay he knew your birth date, your anniversary, your kids birth date, as well as your friends birth dates, so I hope my friends will be forgiving when I forget their birthday’s this year. It was amazing how he related the dates together with other dates and events like my son Alec’s birthday 8/16 that’s when Elvis Presley died, or my mom 626 our area code amazing.

Jay was always asking questions about how to improve himself from how do I put together my resume? To do I offend you guys? Do I relate O.K. when I speak to people? He didn’t want to offend anyone, but Jay spoke his mind, often with very little filter before hand, but that was Jay. Jay would wonder and ask us quite often how people could act so cruel to each other and to him at times.

Here are a few funny stories about Jay & the Doocy family. Jay would come to dinner & at times he took us to dinner he would laugh and say you have to take a loan out when you take the Doocy’s to dinner. When we moved he always laughed and said it’s the Beverly Hill Billies, we moved from our little shack in Sierra Madre to our mansion in Glendora complete with our own cement pond. Jay and I use to be on a bowling league together & it never failed that when I’d bowl if I’d throw the ball and miss my shot he’d yell “Yea lady there’s no pins over there” it became a running joke. We’d laugh, that laugh, Jay could get me laughing just by hearing him laugh. I’ll never forget his laugh when he got tickled sometimes by his own jokes. Another way Jay impacted our family and the Kingdom of God was by his selfless giving he came over and helped my daughter’s boyfriend Michael take care of my mother while we were in Lithuania on our missions trip. He took her to dinner, the movies, and loved to help and support us this way.

The last thing I’d like to share about Jay was something Krisha shared about him and we observed, Jay had taken a gorgeous picture of a butterfly on a flower when he was on his cruise to the Panama Canal. You’ll see it later in the slide show. He was so proud of this picture he felt he should have won the picture contest on the cruise. Krisha said Jay was like that picture of the flower often we pass by not noticing the little things, the beautiful things of life maybe because we’re to busy to stop, we don’t want to be bothered to stop, or we purposefully don’t stop or avoid stopping. This is how people acted with Jay at times. Just like Jay’s picture if we don’t take the time to stop and experience God’s creation we will miss out on the beauty & blessing. Thank you Lord for Jay and his life and how You used Jay to touch & bless the Doocy family and many others.

We will miss you Jay dearly.