Birthday Tribute To Will

Birthdays remind us that the gift of life is the most precious and important one. This is my birthday tribute to BJ (Will). Friends and family also joined in to share their special memories of you, and wish you the very best birthday! I love you babe. I hope all your birthday wishes come true!

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. – Plautus

Hey Dad! I love yas, I hope you have a good birthday. I just wanted to say, happy B-Day…and I love ya! I hope that you have a very special day, and I know your getting old, 29 “is” getting old. Anyway….SSSS, I love ya! ~Jayce

Will,
I wish you all the best in life and may you have many more to come...
I won't forget the good times we had coaching together, even though we lost most of our games..., I still had fun. Happy Birthday ~Art

Hi, just wanted to say Happy Birthday, young man! I enjoyed having you as my table-mate in the beginning of x-ray school, even though I was pretty quiet most of the time. Enjoy your birthday. XRT 67! ~ Srey

BJ ..Just wanted to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.. Wish I could be there to celebrate it with you. Miss you.. Love ~MOM

Happy Birthday Will!!!!
We send you the best wishes from sunny San Diego.
Always remember that your friends are there to support you during this transition in your life.... Age is just a number and you will always remain younger than Richard and myself. That should make you smile :).... Stay young!!!!! ~Michelle, Richard and Ryan

B.J. - HAPPY - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Are you still moving and grooving @ 29 (?) like you did when I first met you..?? Do you remember the first time you came to Tulsa, and….the weather?? We were all going to dinner, and Delana was of course the last one to be ready to go, she was in the bathroom, the electric went off , it started hailing and you ran outside to move your car under the trees so it would not get banged up from the hail. As you were outside, the tornado sirens sounded...Delana hollering, where's B.J.? You were running and flew past the windows, Lorrinda ran outside after you. Somehow, I know we all made it back into the apartment. Dinner, I believe consisted of turkey sandwiches by candle light and kerosene lamp at Grandma's. Hope your birthday is special...Miss you...and Much Love ~Mom (Lorraine)

"I wish you a very happy birthday! Don't forget that youth is a disease from which we all recover." ~ Micahla

The thing about BJ is that his humor, his energy and his playfulness are contagious. While we were in Nuc Med school everybody would be all uptight about the tests or instructors and the tension/drama would be high and in would walk BJ from our break imitating Chief Jasper exactly! From his walk and mannerisms to how he talked and what he said and he would literally crack everyone up until the next instructor came in and had to ask everyone to calm down. But he was never embarrassed or shy about his humor and would do the imitation at the drop of a dime for the very guy he was imitating, and that tells me that BJ is comfortable with who he is and that his compassion for everyone in the class was genuine and that he wasn’t mocking the instructor so much as taking care of his classmates. BJ is the kind of guy that you are lucky to meet and are blessed if you can call him your friend and I miss him even though he became an X-ray tech… Happy Birthday Will!! ~Matt

My funniest memory of BJ is the first day I met him. I took him out to the driving range; it was a beautiful clear Oklahoma day..... Then weather started rolling in the tornado sirens started going off. I was getting ready to go out.. Yes, it was big hair in Oklahoma so I had these hard curlers in my hair. BJ went to move the car because it started hailing.. Delana asked me to run out and get him.. Being pelted with hail in curlers is not fun! I couldn't find BJ but saw him run by the apartment twice.. We finally got him inside. We all ended up standing in the bathtub until the sirens stopped. I think Boomer, Delana’s dog bit one of us...lol..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! LOVE YOU LOTS..~Lorrinda

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY B.J. Many years ago Delana called from college to say she had met the sweetest guy at school. She said she was bringing him home to meet everybody. This was one intro I didn't want to miss. Happy Birthday B.J.! But you do still manage to look like Aladdin. Your "Magic Carpet" is now the U.S. Navy. I love you, miss you and wish you a" Happy 29?" birthday. Love & Kisses ~Aunt LouElla

"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." - Franklin Pierce Adams. Happy 35th old timer!~Ian & Donella

Happy bday! ~Presley

Happy Birtday man.......how old are you now 50? You made xray school fun especially when we played football and I'd burn you for a touchdown...LOL. I hope you and your family are doing well. ~LO

BJ, Hope you have a wonderful birthday. Here is a video to remind you of how cool you use to be.~Gregg

B.J. has always been a people pleaser and if he doesn't feel good or is having a bad day, only those that really know him very well can tell, he covers his emotions very well. I will always keep in my memory the sweet smile and friendly 'wink' that comes from B.J.'s face. I hope you have a wonderful birthday and may all your wishes come true!! I Love You!!! Love, ~Mama T

Thirty-Five years old; seems just like yesterday you were born! I love you now just as much as the first day I first saw you. Even though we don't see each other as much as I'd like to, I feel very close to you. I wish you a very happy birthday and I wait for the day that we can pal around together! Love ~Dad

When BJ was 16 he owned a Ford Escort that everyone thought was as cool as the Pope Mobile(to pull this one off he dated the priest, Father True, and paid his boyfriend to ride around with him) JK Bro. Happy Birthday old man.~Mike

BJ, I love you and miss you. I hope you have a great birthday and I will see you soon! ~Crystal, Shawn, and Taylor

B.J. - Thanks for always being a great role model and giving me footsteps to follow (same college, SWOSU; same profession, X-ray)

A Tribute to my Brother
Through the years and many tears
You have taught me so much to know
Though you and I are far apart
Our love, I feel, stays close at heart
And so I sum this little letter
With a hug and kiss to make "your day" better!
Happy 35th Birthday! I love and miss you....my big brother.....from your favorite SISSY-Kimy

Happy birthday bro! I’ll call you tomorrow and talk with you live. ~ Troy

Happy birthday B.J. have a wonderful day~ Erin and Tatum

We met BJ (and the lovely Delana) in 1998 when they moved down the road from us in military housing at MCAS Cherry Point. We soon discovered he was a pretty cool guy, even if he was a Navy boy, and he kept Mike busy with lots of home improvement projects that I always benefitted from. "Wow...that carpet we put down in BJ's house turned out really nice. Maybe we need new carpet too!" We had a lot of cookouts, and the occasional really bad Blockbuster night. But don't worry BJ...we forgive you for picking flicks like "Wild Things," even if they did cause permanent scarring. Just kidding. You're a great guy, terrific friend, and man among men. And you play WoW too! How could you not be cool? (Unless you're Alliance, in which case, may I never see you alone in Azeroth.) Happy Birthday, my friend. Wishing you a fabulous 35th, and only giggling a little bit that you'll always be older. Enjoy Italy and maybe we will all run into each other again somewhere down the line. All the best...~Barbara & Mike

Happy Birthday BJ
Remember you are BLESSED :) = Beautiful wife, children, family and friends and your faith in Jesus. So don't worry that your another year older :)~Rita & Ted

The only thing I can say is this man is a salesman. He has the gift of gab. He can sale a 5 bedroom igloo to a dessert A-rabbi. The whole time with a smile on his face. ~Walker

Happy Birthday Will,

I met Keller(Will) in X-ray school in Portsmouth ,VA. I knew we would get along right away we both liked sports and playing golf and video games and we both liked to bust balls, but we could also take it with a grain of salt if we were the one's getting our balls busted. I remember one time Will, Jayce, and myself went golfing in Suffolk. We were on Par five hole and we had never played this course before so we didn't realize it was downhill and Will decided to drive and hit the perfect drive around the dogleg left all of a sudden a this big fat guy came up the hill swearing at Will, and at first Will was calm but, then he got upset because this guy was swearing in front of his son, and he was ready to throw down. I already knew Will was a good guy, but seeing him around Jayce when we hung out I realized he was also a great dad and someone I will use as a role model and example to raise my son Connor.
Happy B-day Bro.
PS If you didn't fail that friggin dark room test we could be hanging out and working together in Naples, but what could I expect from a Air Wing Corpsman LOL.~Dieffenbach

Happy Birthday! I got counseling in x-ray school because of him. HM1 Barnes if you remember him was the one who gave it to me! We were doing these math problems on the board and it was like a race on who would finish 1st, well he and I were pitted against one another and I think I won! Well, you know how you kid one another? Well, HM1 Barnes didn't see it like that! He took me into his office and said that I hurt HM2 Keller's feelings! HUH? Feelings? About a math problem? He was way smarter than me, it was just that I wrote faster than him! So, I was told to apologize to him for "arguing". So, after that I kept kidding around how I couldn't "hurt" his "feelings". He was too sensitive. We miss you all!~Toni

Will,
Thanks for being such a great friend. Hope you had a wonderful day with the family.
Hugs,~Obie, Isabel, Nathaniel & Joshua http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=263u268&s=4

Happy Birthday. I hope all your wishes come true.~Taylor