Terrence Lee Lysaght

LYSAGHT, Terry L. Beloved son of the late Stanley and Helen (nee Pace) Lysaght. Loving brother of Patricia (John) Holtman, Vicky (Dennis) Halpin, Timothy (Kim) Lysaght and the late Thomas Lysaght. Devoted uncle of Shelley, Kristan, Jeremy, Chris, John Michael, Angie, Erin and Justin. Dear friend of Pam. Also survived by his beloved Oreo. Entered into rest surrounded by his family on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at 67 years of age. Visitation on Sunday at B. J. Meyer Sons Memorial Home, 4841 Glenway Ave., (next to St. Teresa Church) from 2:00-4:00PM. Memorials may be made to ALS Association (Lou Gehrig's Disease), 1170 Old Henderson Rd, Suite 221, Columbus, OH 43220.

In an Italian-Irish home, Terry quietly outshone the more obvious personalities with his humorous and humble ways. He is remembered by loved ones as a man who walked the earth giving joy to those around him in spite of his own dark battle with depression. No competition or strife existed in his heart and no complaining could be heard from his lips; only quick and sometimes dark humor served to lighten his and another's day. Terry's style of humor fueled the comedic tastes of our family. He was our Jerry Lewis. His childlike spirit humbled us all and when Terry was faced in late life with a devastating diagnosis of ALS, he minimized it by joking about his uncontrollable arm; acting out his signature throat-clasping move that could have been a scene out of a Mel Brooks movie. He assured his family that ALS could certainly never be worse than his darkest day of depression. Terry lived with courage through decades of emotional pain, and what he might have seen as a devastating reward for his endurance he instead accepted with dignity; choosing to cope by looking at life through his God-given goofy lenses and helping us all to see.
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Shelley Wyatt, niece