Ardin Buell Obituary

Tim, I have loved you for 35 years and will love you forever. I will carry you in my heart until we are together again. Love, Marilee

Tim was very pleasant and kind to me. I will truly miss seeing him here. May God bless his family and friends.

Tim was a wonderful person who was always there for you. He was very giving of himself and never hesitated to help. He will be missed and always fondly remembered.

I am not resigned.



My dear old friend A.P. was a good man. He loved his mom, his dogs, his work -- a combination of blessings and blessedness that's granted to few, I'm afraid.



For several months, A.P. and I had been trying to put together a week of golfing out here in California this fall. We had never played together, and I was so looking forward to doing so. I don't think I've ever laughed as much, or harder, with anyone, every time we were together. I will miss him.



I am listening to Jackson Browne a lot this week -- songs A.P. and I and other friends loved together, songs that now speak with renewed poignancy about love and death, youth and hope and time and loss.



I regret that I cannot attend the service. If I could have, I might have wished to speak of consolation and hope, but I could not have done so. This poem, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, reflects my feelings.



I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned

With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.



Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.

Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.

A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,

A formula, a phrase remains, Ñ but the best is lost.



The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, Ñ

They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled

Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.

More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.



Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind:

Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.

I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Tim will truly be missed. I worked with him as his Assistant for the past 3 1/2 years until my departure from LaSalle in August. Tim was a very easy person to work with. Condolescenes to all who will be effected by his absence.

Tim was a good new friend of mine at LaSalle Bank. He gave me lots of encouragement in my personal life crisis. We were looking forward to investing and playing together in years to come. I liked Tim. I will miss him. My thoughts and prayers are with his mother, Polly. Tom Hirsh

I'll miss Tim very much.He was a very good and true friend.

My most sincere condolences to his Mom who always spoke of most lovingly and respectfully.

G-d bless you both!