Joseph Daleo

I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one,
I’d like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
of happy times and laughing
times and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those
who grieve, to dry before the sun.
Of happy memories that I leave
when life is done.

Joseph Daleo at age 76. Beloved father of Deborah, Joseph, Anthony, Michael, and Brian. Adored grandfather of 11 grandchildren.

In Lieu of flowers, the family kindly asks that donations be made out to the American Heart Association. www.heart.org