Don’s passing Eleven years later.
“A Brother Remembered.”
By Winston May 18 2009
One of the memories that I have is spending time with our brother Don at Peach Garden.
It was on Canada day in the early nineties.
Don dropped by and asked, “Are you and Lin going to watch the fireworks at the hill?”
I answered, “We usually go along the canal where you can sit on the hillside and get a good view without a big crowd!” Don asked, “Would you and Lin mind if I tag along? I would like to see the fireworks, but it's no fun to go by your self.”
I answered, “You know that you’re always welcome to join us, we don't spend nearly enough time together.” Don said, “I know that! There is always something to do and never the amount of time left in the day to get together as often as I would like.”
Any of the times that the Roy brothers got together we would spend it with good lively conversation! Even when Don was a child he always liked a good debate and he would get in there with the best of them and give it his all.

The fireworks on that night were spectacular and the skies were amazingly clear,
I think that I could say without a doubt in my mind that it was a perfect night.
On the way back home I asked Don, “Would you like to join us for egg rolls and fried rice at Peach?”
Don said, “That sounds like a good idea! And I’m a bit hungry.”
I don’t know of anyone that enjoyed a good meal any more than the way that Don did!
Well maybe Jim could give him a good run for that position?
We walked back to a restaurant called Peach Garden on Main Street. Back in those days the owners name was Poy and as we entered I remember him saying, “This must be your brother!” And asking Don, “Are you a movie star?”
Don said with a big smile, “No I'm just a bad actor!”
Poy said, “Look at you! You are good looking and tall you should be an actor in Hollywood!”
Don asked, “Are you sure that you come from China and not Ireland? You have a silver tongue when it comes to paying a compliment!”
We all had a good laugh, and Poy would say, “Enjoy your meal!” And then move to the next table.
Linda often said, “I think of Don as being more like my brother, than I do as an in-law!”
I also remember Don getting the biggest kick out of teasing Lin.
For an example one time when Don dropped by just to say hi, he rushed to the kitchen and said with a big smile, “I caught you with dirty dishes in the sink again.”
And then he would laugh out loud with a big belly laugh.
Don also would pay the greatest compliments and mean them; he once said to Lin, “You’re one in a million.”
That is also how I feel about Don he too was one in a million!
And he will be forever missed but not forgotten by all that knew and loved him.
On this Victoria Day weekend as I have done for the past ten years since Don passed and once again I will search the night sky for a special shooting star just like the one that I saw on that night in nineteen ninety-eight and I will see you once again.

Winston