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Robert Thomas Urton

1944 - 2015

Joseph Clark posted a condolence

Thursday, October 4, 2018

I intended to vent about this on your facebook wall, but apparently that's been disabled, I don't know. I have a co-worker, I barely know her, but she lost someone important to her today. I wanted to reach out and give her some sort of assurance that things will get better, and in some sense they will, but not like we want. Things don't get better in a linear sense, they just get farther away. I don't think about you first thing like I used to, hell, I don't even quite think about you every day anymore, but it still hurts the same way. I've spent the last hour crying, 3 years later. People don't get over losing a brother. So I told her that. I told her that she won't think about it first thing forever, and if that seems like a sad condolence, then blame the world, or God if that's what you're in to. Things don't happen for a reason, things just happen. I wish we could have watched the next season of Rick and Morty, or listened to the new Twenty-One Pilots album, you would have hated it. You never got to hear Lordes new album, you never made it to Seattle. All you needed was another 2 years, and you would have become the man you always tried to be, and you would have done what you wanted to do in life. I wish I could have seen that. You'd love it here. You once told me that I was one of the few remaining genuinely good people left, "A beacon of kindness and goodness", and I hope that's true. People don't tell me things like that anymore, and I don't know if that means that you were special or I'm not anymore. I think maybe I'm just a little too sad now to have people care about that. I recently started taking interest in poetry, I would have loved to talk with you about that. There's so many concepts that I felt like I never effectively communicated to you forever ago, that I have the language for now, I wish we could talk about what it means to be a link in the chain of a tradition. I smoked American Spirits when you died, I kicked them though. After you died things fell apart pretty fast, and it made it clear that you were the glue that held us together as a group of friends, as a family. I think maybe that I could be someone like that to other people, but I don't know if I ever will. I wish I could have kept my friendship with the people we knew, I wish I was able to go back and change things.

Kristie Shrieves posted a condolence

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Roberts birth year has to be incorrect if he was only 21 this year. He was so young, my heart goes out to his family. May God comfort and keep all of you. God’s Lent Child by Author Unknown I’ll lend you for a little while, a child of mine, God said For you to love the while he lives and mourn for when he’s dead. It may be six or seven years, or forty-two or three But will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me? He’ll bring his charms to gladden you and should his stay be brief You’ll always have his memories as a solace in your grief. I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return, But there are lessons taught below I want this child to learn. I’ve looked this whole world over in my search for teachers true And from the folk that crowd Life’s lane I have chosen you. Now will you give him all your love and not think the labour vain, Nor hate me when I come to take this lent child back again? I fancy that I heard them say “Dear God, thy will be done. For all the joys this child will bring the risk of grief we’ll run. We will shelter him with tenderness, we’ll love him while we may And for all the happiness we’ve ever known, we’ll ever grateful stay. But should the angels call him much sooner than we’d planned We will brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand.”