The tale of the sanddad

On June 20, 2004, Jodie and I went to the beach on Cape Cod (a.k.a. The Hook). There were all these families there who were like wishing a happy father's day to their dads and who were running into neighbors and saying stuff like, "oh, are you guys doing father's day stuff?" and stuff like that. Well, Jodie and I felt left out. See, we can't hang out with our dads on father's day, because our dads are dead dads. I mean, I suppose we COULD hang out with them, but that's kind of fucked. Anyway, I digress. So we decided we wanted to have dads too, just like all the rest of the lovely families on the beach. Um, these beachgoing families also had coordinated Land's End beach totes and umbrellas, but I didn't see us coveting that stuff. But again, I digress. So we wanted a dad so much that we made one:

So yeah. That's the dad we made. After we had a dad, we felt much better. We were like all of the other kids. Oh, and then we were lying there in the sun frying and we heard some girl yell, "Is that your dad?" We shrieked with laughter, but then we looked up and she was talking to her friend, whose dad was walking toward them. Oh well. We can pretend she meant us. Isn't creating your own reality what this page is all about?


We now return you to our normally scheduled Dead Dad Page, already in progress.

eeka's dead dad's grave

Jodie's dead dad's grave

eeka's dead dad's obituary

Jodie's dead dad's obituary. It's wrong though. Dana never lived in Rhode Island. Or maybe he just didn't know he did. Hey, he should join our club.

John H. 'Jack' Deignan III, 62 Marstons Mills - John H. "Jack" Deignan III, 62, retired automobile salesman, died Saturday, Jan. 22, 2000, at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. He was the husband of Cheryl (Amiot) Deignan. Mr. Deignan was born in Providence. He served in the Army for four years and worked as an automobile salesman for many years in the Providence area and on Cape Cod. He retired due to illness in 1989. He moved to Yarmouthport in 1972 and then to Marstons Mills in 1975. He was a member of the Cape Cod YMCA, where he was a volunteer helping disabled children swim. He was an avid sports fan and played golf and gardened until his illness. Besides his wife, Mr. Deignan is survived by two children, Dana P. Deignan of Warwick, R.I., and Jodie L. Deignan of East Falmouth; his mother, Marjorie (Kindelan) Deignan; three brothers, Michael Deignan and Stephen Deignan of Hilton Head, N.C. and Paul Deignan of Waters, Mich.; three sisters, Mary "Mini" Maser of Hilton Head, Sheila Brennan of Warwick, R.I., and Margaret Lisi of East Greenwich, R.I.; and many nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville. Burial was in Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne. Memorial donations may be made to Cape Cod YMCA, 2245 Iyannough Road, West Barnstable, Mass. 02668.

Dana's dead dad's obituary

George E. Leighton 1926 - 2004 WEST SPRINGFIELD - George E. Leighton, 77, of Anaheim CA, and formerly of West Springfield, MA, died Friday, March 5, 2004 in Granada Hills, CA at his son's home. Born in Springfield to the late Joseph and Marjorie Leighton, he attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, received his BS in engineering from Georgia Tech University, and his MBA from American International College. An avid aviator, he was an FAA certified flight instructor and held an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) rating. Up until recently he flew his Cessna 182 Skylane with glee. Self-employed as an acoustic and noise control consultant, he was previously employed locally as an aerospace engineer at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Hamilton Standard in Windsor Locks, and Avco-Lycoming in Stratford, CT. He leaves 4 sons, Alan of West Springfield, Eric of Granada Hills, CA, Mark of Ellington, CT and Dana of Vancouver, Canada; his loving companion, Penny Cofield of Anaheim, CA; six grandchildren, Brian, David, Kyle, Shawn and Dylan Leighton, and Melissa Lengyel; and his former wife of 26 years, Jeannette Millett of West Springfield. He was predeceased by a son, Bruce Leighton and by his brother, Joseph Harlan Leighton. A funeral service will be held at the Mittineague Congregational Church, 1840 Westfield Street (Route 20), West Springfield, MA on Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society in lieu of flowers. Published in The Republican from 3/11/2004 - 3/12/2004.

Dana's dad (when he was alive)

Thingy from Northwest Runner magazine about eeka's dead dad

A drawing someone did of eeka and EEK's dead dad (when he was alive) which EEK has tattooed on his arm

Jodie, to eeka: "Um, why does EEK have some guy on his arm?"

Rule number one of the dead dad club: never miss an opportunity to refer to dead dads

Jodie and eeka: [talking about computers]

Jaime: Hey, you guys just reminded me...you know what I want to get my dad?

Jodie: A tombstone?

OK, so this isn't dead dad stuff per se, but it's kind of related, and it's funny. So it's going here.

Jacqui: [something about a crack house]

eeka: My uncle has a crack house! Um, well, except he's dead now.

Jacqui: So it's a crack mausoleum?

Words of wisdom from Jodie

Dead dads are dads too. They're just dead. ~Jodie

EEK makes a dead dad joke; ER nurse not amused

EEK was at the ER and they were asking him for his parents' names and numbers and he gave them his dad's name but then said that if they called, he probably wouldn't be answering, because he's dead, and the nurse was like really disturbed by this.