Friday, February 2, 2018
Dear Slavko,
We will all miss you as we love you. You are truly a very special person in our community. It is fair to say that our community would not be today what it is, without your work, vision and patience. You worked hard to gather all of us Serbs, regardless of origin and political affiliation, despite the fact that you were yourself persecuted. That in itself is a great feature of your character, something today’s new generations of Serbs should learn from you, so they can put political divisions of the past behind them and be truly brothers and sisters. No hard feelings, no bitterness, just search for wisdom to be better, truly noble and amazing. You worked hard , not only to gather community, but to help the newcomers, refugees and all people of good will. You could be strict and frequently had been, as all people who must deal with realities of life and money frequently are, but you always listened everyone’s words, whether agreed or not.And in that strictness you were wise as you never allowed important decisions be made by hart only but by rational thinking. In everyday communication ,you were always warm, patient, fatherly instructive and kind.You looked at all kids as if they were your grandchildren.
We all saw this, and loved you and respected for it. So now, that the time has come to part, we want you to know this, our love and appreciation, as we never did in so many words, while you were with us. We will miss you and always remember you until such day when we might meet again.
May dear God grant you a place in his Heavenly Home!
