Samuel Patrick Lannan

Sam was a graduate of Stephen F. Austin high school, Sugar Land, Texas, where he played football with a group of dear friends who would go on to room together in college. He attended the University of Texas, Loved everything about Austin, and never missed a UT football game. Sam went on to work in commercial banking with Wells Fargo and PNC Bank in Richmond, Virginia, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sam is survived by his mother, Louise Lannan, his father Timothy J. Lannan, his grandmothers Jean Hopper and Pat Lannan, Aunts and Uncles Ruth Hopper, Jim Hopper, Kim Toothman, and Darren Lannan, cousins Isabelle Gallardo Hopper, Diego Gallardo Hopper, Jennifer Hopper, Noemi Hopper, Taylor Toothman Sulkowski, Spencer Toothman, Gabriella Toothman, Sarah Toothman Andress, Blake Lannan, special extended family Don Toothman, Joe Pacheco, and George Gafas. Sam was dearly cherished by his late grandfathers Bryan Hopper and John Patrick Lannan.

Private cremation will be held with immediate family members. Sam’s ashes will be spread at various places that held a special place in his heart, and where he spent precious times with beloved family and friends. Sam was loved beyond measure and his absence will be felt in our hearts and souls evermore.

On Children by Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Fly high our beautiful Sam.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Sam's memory to Shatterproof https://www.shatterproof.org/ or Madi's House https://madishousecincy.org/ .