Remembering

Thinking about you Dad. You're in just about everything I see. You'd love the Christmas tree this year — I'm passing down all of your tips on how to make the tree beautiful; setting the lights and glass balls deep into the branches. I'm keeping the birds (and squirrels) well-fed on cracked corn and suet. You'd love the red-bellied woodpecker who has taken up residence; he's beautiful. Nothing is the same without you, but I'm doing my best to remember you in all the best ways possible and make you proud.

At work (posed) on a golf scape in his Farmington studio.

Diana Turasi, Dad, and Coach Auriema, with his painting of Turasi donated to UConn.

At a Society of Illustrator's exhibition with my mom, his surrealist golf series, commissioned by Sports Illustrated is in the background.

Donald F. Moss

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?n=donald-francis-moss&pid=142986835

Donald Francis Moss, husband of Virginia ("Sally") Hardesty Moss, of Farmington, Connecticut, died peacefully Tuesday (May 18) at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He was 90. Born January 20, 1920 in Somerville, Massachusetts, he had a rare and wonderful life. In addition to his wife of more than 60 years, Moss is survived by his son, Donald Hardesty Moss and his wife, Susan Reeder Moss, of West Hartford, CT; his daughter, Elisabeth Prescott Moss, and her partner, Kathleen Zecchin, of Farmington; and his daughter, Margaret Moss Painter, and her husband, Robert W. Painter Jr., of Avon, CT. He is also survived by five grandchildren, William and Samuel Moss, Kathryn, Alexander, and James DeGraaf. He also leaves his son-in-law, Christian DeGraaf of New Hartford, CT; brother-in-law, Kurt Tauber of Williamstown, Massachusetts; brother-in-law Clifton Hardesty of Venice, Florida; as well as several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his three sisters. Moss was a noted and celebrated illustrator, as well as a fine artist, and one of the last surviving veterans of the First Marine Division's Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II.