Thank you to those who shared. David was my father, is my father. I have fragments now of the person he was but hearing your memories helps me see him in new ways. 

David lives on through me in small ways like my natural interest in music and art. I have some possessions from his home like his famous heart-shaped drum, a basket of cassette recordings of radios and jam sessions, and more sentimental things like photos and keepsakes from my childhood. I loved him and I’m forever grieving the lost chance to know him in my adult life. 

It will be 13 years this August, almost the age I was when he passed, the same age as the last time I saw him.

I'm so sorry and sad of David's passing.
Great memories,David taking his brother Steve and myself to OLM on monday nights in high school for cdf classes or what ever they were called. In the old woody he was driving  I first heard the song "she lives on love street" by the Doors and "Swlabr and sunshine of your love"by Cream. David was a great Drummer and Steve and I would go see him play in Merced and Modesto. David Loved his drums and drumming to the song "wipe out" a great drum solo. He could drum to any song and make any drum sound good. David put his sprite into his music and to this day when I play those songs and see him in my mind as if was yesterday drumming away. Cream drummer Ginger Baker and David were two of a kind, the Greatest. My prayers go out the family of my childhood days the "Winters Family".

Sad to here about Davids passing.Have lots of memories of the Winters Klan and David. He made some good wine, and was a good drummer.

Don Salvadori

I'm really sorry to hear about the passing of David.I remember some really great times when we were teens playing and singing with Karen,Jimmy and myself.
Mike McILroy
tilenomore@yahoo.com

Offering our deepest condolences during this difficult time.


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David G. Winters

June 24, 1951 – August 26, 2010

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