Mom and dad with the Pastor for their wedding in the apartment in San Antonio, TX 10-11.1973

Poppy at his house in FL after entering the Coast Guard.

You will be missed by Brenden and I you  were the best father-in-law and a wonderful grandfather a girl could have ever had rest in peace love and miss you are now with the angels😭

First and foremost, I would like to thank not only Sam and Trish but the entire Aronson/Chatfield family for taking me into their loves and making me and my girls' family. I have lived next door to Sam and Trish for going on 33 years. They were the first people that I met when I moved here. They immediately took me and my children in and became parents to me and grandparents to my girls. I remember many times when Trish would call me ato ask if my girls could come over and play with Elizabeth (their granddaugther). I was a married woman but my husband at the time was not home due to working out of town. I was a stay at home mom and was very thankful for the break. The best part is that Elizabeth and my girls, Nicole, Michelle and Melissa are like sisters now because of the close relationship. I would call Trish and ask her if I could borrow her husband, and he would immediately grab gloves and a tool bag and come over because he never knew if there was something that was either smelly or needed fixing. I was very thankful for his non sense of smell. I could not tell you how much money Sam saved me by fixing things around the house. Over the years Sam and Trish have always come to our family functions such as Thanksgiving, birthdays, weddings and very large scale Easter egg hunts that took up several yards. They never missed a family function when it came to my girls. Later on when my girls grew up and had kids of their own we started Sunday Funday which included eating something special, playing dominoes and drinking beer, telling stories. Sam, Merl, Norman and my Daddy connected on stories of their time in the military. Sam and Trish are very much a part of my word and Sam will be missed terribly by not only me but my entire family. He and Trish were there for me and my girls when my childrens father passed, when my husband passed and when my father passed. I will be there for this family until I cant be there anymore. I love this family.

I remember when I told you I think I finally found my calling and my passion a few months back. You were so PROUD of me. And although me finding this road coincidently stemmed from you getting sick. I am so proud of you. You are still the strongest man I’ll ever know, but you were so much more than that. You were funny, outrageously talented and smart. Your paintings lit up rooms and brought smiles to many faces. Your love for building cars and airplanes for your office. Your amazing art that you truly brought to life for every holiday. Especially Halloween, man what I would give to hear you sing monster mash one more time. But as amazing as you were at literally everything and no matter how much I loved it all and was so proud of you for everything you accomplished. My absolute favorite thing about you and what I looked up most to you for was your heart. Your heart was full of so much love, you taught all of us how to be loved correctly even after bumps in the road. Your poems every holiday, birthday, anniversary and you little Irish ditty’s for mimi, the way you always looked at mimi, the random dances in the living room just because, the simple yet meaningful gifts, the communication, you truly loved whole heartedly and I pray I find someone half as perfect as you were that loves whole heartedly and never gives up through the rough patches. But we do thank you for letting mimi do most of the cooking, that was not your strongest suit. You are loved by so many people. The family you built. The life long friends you made. The friends that turned into family making our family so large that none of us would ever feel alone. You took me in as your granddaughter, loved me and raised me as a daughter. You gave me a big family by blood, but you gave me an even bigger family by allowing our friends and neighbors to join our family and loves them all as your own children and grandchildren. This extra large family is what will keep us all going and strong when we need to be.

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Samuel Lewis Aronson

July 22, 1943 – January 14, 2025

Calvary Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery

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