A Day to Celebrate Our Gary!!

The Third Annual Latham Cup was an awesome day! Gary touched the lives of so many people in many different ways. We really look forward to the Latham Cup as a day to remember him. We want to thank everyone that contributed to the day- we are so overwhelmed by your generosity! It means so much to our family.
Tammy, Craig, Hannah & Scott

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The 3rd Annual Latham Cup

The plans are underway for the 3rd Annual Gary Latham Memorial Golf Tournament- aka, The Latham Cup. It will be a day to celebrate and remember our dear Gary Latham.

Monday, July 25th 2011
Walnut Creek Country Club

Registration at 11:00am
Shotgun Start at 1:00pm
Dinner at 5:00pm

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Roller Coaster Man

Hey everyone, it's Hannah!
So it's my turn to write on the blog so I figured since we were just at Cedar Point on Sunday, I should write about how he loved roller coasters. My Dad used to love going on roller coasters. Now as most of you know I'm average when it comes to height and I think I was maybe 6 or 7 and I had just gotten to 48inches which at cedar point means you can go on some rides. I don't really love to go on big hills either but, my Dad got me convinced to go on the Magnum which at the height I was then was the biggest ride I could go on. So those of you that now Cedar Point well the Magnum is the ride that has red tracks and one big hill and a bunch of dark tunnels. Anyways, I went on that sitting next to him and Craig and Sam Olsen in front of us the whole time my dad had one hand in the air and the other one hold on to me because I was scared to death. I don't really know why I remember this so clearly but I do, and that's one example of my dad loving roller coasters.
Hannah <3

Food of Glory

My dad Gary Latham is a person who loves to eat food. Every day before he would go to work he would go to panara. He even had a $150 gift card to panera. He would buy bagles on saturday morning and pizza on saturday night. He would buy us tacos sometimes. but he always goes to get us thai food like every day. When it was one of our brithdays he would buy us a huge cake I am not talking about a regular cake I am talking about big. Thats what my dad would do for food.

By
Scott Latham

Thanks for a Great Day!!

The 1st Annual Gary Latham Memorial Golf Tournament was a blast! We would like to thank everyone for their help in making this event a memorable one! Tom, Dan, Matt and Dad worked so hard to plan and organize the day. For all of you that attended, those of you that volunteered your time and skills during the event, those that sponsored us financially and everyone else THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts.

$8167 was raised for the Latham Children's Education Fund...WOW ! We truly appreciate each and everyone of you! What an amazing tribute to Gary and our family.

All of our love,

Tammy, Craig, Hannah & Scott

PS. Photos will be available for your viewing pleasure soon!

The Latham Cup !

Monday August 10, 2009
Walnut Creek Country Club
South Lyon Michigan

Questions ?? Contact Tom Bacon TBacon@zebra.com

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the vacation

Now this is Scott writing. I am writing about our vacations. Well every year in the summer we go with our friends to a place. But last year we went to yellow stone by car 0f course. My dad and his friend would call each other names like grislly, and papa bear. well last year my dad and his friend didn't shave the whole time which was 6 weeks. now we saw geysers and famous land marks. But we came not for the places but for the adventure and fun of it. Now I can't wait for the next place we go. So keep watching and Remember to have some fun.

p.s. we are very buzy

Scott Latham

Gary Latham Memorial Golf Outing

Hello Bloggers,

Please mark your calendar for the first annual Gary Latham Memorial Golf Outing – which will be held this summer on August 10th. Proceeds from the event will go toward the Latham Children’s Fund.

Lots more details will follow and in the coming weeks we will post information about the event on this blog and we will send invitations to as many people as we can.

OMG SHOES!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone,
This is Craig, the best son, and from what i hear we are still writing in the blog and it is my turn. So what i am going to write as my memory or story about my dad is quite a funny one. I think. Its about the time my Dad bought the best pair of shoes, in his mind that is. :)
So it was a Saturday and my dad realized that he needed a new pair of shoes. So we go to Dick's which is probably the only place that we go to get shoes. O, just clearing up for you disgusting people we went to Dick's SPORTING GOOD'S :). so we all then helped him pick out a good pair. And after countless hour we picked out some Adidas Shoes. (I wear those shoes now)
We got home and my dad decided that he wanted to go on a family walk with his NEW SHOES. If you don't know when you buy a pair of shoes, you usually wear around the house to break into them. My dad was so excited about the shoes he made us keep walking around the 4 mile square near our house.
It took us about 1 hour to do that walk, which is a pretty long time for a walk. I think it was good for him because he didn't walk for another two days because his feet were sore. They were so big. I just laughed at him the whole time. :)
Well that's my funny story/memory with my dad. Hope it was a good one. Well gtg(In text Lang. means GOT TO GO). See you guys when i see you. Later.

The Last Piece

Hi. It is Hannah (Gary's Daughter). It has been about three weeks from the worst thing in my life and I thought I should start writing down things about my dad. It is really hard to write down memories because I miss his love and everything so much it makes me so sad to think about it. I want to tell everyone this one story though.
Okay, anyways it was the night after the funeral. Me, Aunt Patti(dad's sister), and Uncle Kelly( brother in law) were doing a puzzle (to keep everything off our mind. It really works actually.) and it was like I think 1000 pieces and our family had been working on it for a few months. Even before my dad got in the hospital. Anyways we had all the pieces in the puzzle, but one of the pieces were missing. It has kinda been a game in our family to be the one with the last piece of the puzzle. I think dad started the game in which all of us end up hiding a puzzle piece in our pockets so we can put in the last piece. So we had worked so hard to get the puzzle done and then we can't find this one stupid piece. So I yelled to my mom and said something like "Have you seen the last puzzle piece?" and we looked everywhere. Finally for some reason she told me to look in her hospital bag. It turns out it was in there!!!! My dad had gotten the last piece! Nobody knows how the piece got in the bag but I think my dad had something to do with it.
Thats the story I wanted to tell. Me, my brothers, and my mom will keep more stories about my dad before and after death. It is a really rough time at the Lathams but we are trying to Stay strong and hopefully things will get a little bit better. Keep reading. Thanks for all the support.
Love you all,

Hannah xoxoxo