Andy Archible - Online Memorial Website

Love is stronger than death.
So I must be content to know that
love is not affected by death--
it doesn't end, it doesn't diminish,
it doesn't change.
Instead, love is immortalized
and eternalized through death.
And the possibility of that love ever
being damaged or broken
is eliminated forever.
I'll put my trust in love.

If tears could build a stairway

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane

I would walk right up to heaven and bring you back home again.

 

No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye

You were gone before a knew it and only God knows why.

 

My heart still aches with sadness and secret tears still flow

What it meant to love you, no one can ever know.

 

But now i know you want me to mourn for you no more

To remember all the happy times, life still has much more in store.

 

Since you'll never be forgotten, i pledge to you today

A hollowed place within my heart is where you'll always stay.

Just a few days ago i had a dream about you. You, Leila, Cindy, Saysha, Grandma and myself were standing in my kitchen talking, and for some reason i was the only one that knew you had passed on. It was the happiest i have ever been to see you again and i started crying but no one understood why. You leaned down and gave me a great big hug, which even now i can feel you hugging me. You told me everything is  going to be okay and you loved me. You knew why i was crying. I will cherish that hug, and so many more from the past, for the rest of my life. I know that was really you in my dream trying to comfort me and i thank you from the bottom of my heart. You being gone is still heart wrenching but i know you are still here with all of us. I love you so much!

I have many many fond memoried of Andy. Mostly his smile, and his laugh.I remember the tie die party at his and Ralph's house that was so much fun. And he was at our wedding, told me many times it was the most fun he'd ever had at a wedding. Then he watched my belly grow with Alyssa, amazed at the changes, and even more amazed at the life created. He always said she was "everyone's" baby meaning everyone in "the group". Things happen, life changes us, and the past few years we didn't see him as much. I thought/think of him often, and would call him occasionally. Always happy, always laughing. I have a jean jacket he left at a party at my house 4 years ago, give or take. It still has his pack of cigarettes in the pocket. I told him when we moved he would have to come to NYC to get it....he thought I lived to far North in Round Rock, but he laughed, said he would come. I loved him and will miss him greatly. Every time I will think of him, I will smile through the tears because I know he would rather I remember  him with a smile.  

My deepest condolences.  May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...

John 11:32-45

32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”

38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”

45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;

Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/dead-live-again-tract/dead-live-again

I work in Gruene and I often like to take my lunch to the riverside and watch the waterflow. I often thought about Andy and how he passed after seeing the white cross day after day. I decided to Google him and I am touched by what I have found. I wish nothing but the best for Andy's family. RIP

The town of Gruene and the Gruene Rd bridge has always been a special spot for me. That is why I moved to Gruene 3 months ago.  I'm sorry Andy lost his life there.  The bridge is gone and a newer safer one is replacing it.  I walk by Andy's memorial daily and I promise y'all, his friends and family, that I will make sure it stays there and keep it clean of trash and debris.   

My heart goes out to all of you for your lost...I feel the void as well from half way around the world in Japan.  After reading the many condolences, I can see that Andy remained the happy-go-lucky person I knew 30 years ago.  God Bless