Gary Borchardt Obituary

April 27, 2018

Brittany Borchardt wrote a sympathy message

“In loving memory of my Grandpa Gary Borchardt, When you had passed I was mad, I was mad at God for taking you away from me, he took you away from me too soon. But then I figured he took you for a reason, I'm not sure what that reason is but I know I shouldn't have been mad at God but I couldn't help it. I try not to cry in front of people but at your funeral for the gun salute I saw the jar that your ashes were in it just broke me and I balled. It broke me, all I could think was you were inside that jar. At the farm I really notice that without you there the farm is lonely and boring but I still have fun but it would be a lot more fun with you there. Like just a couple weeks ago I climbed the silo for my first time. Dad has been taking care of you plants in the house cause Uncle Jared hasn't been there very often, so Dad has been watering them every time he goes there and he waters the plants. Every time I go there I check on the pine tree that we planted in your yard with your ashes. I will never forget the good or bad times with you. But if I do because it is hard for me to remember certain things that had happened a while because of my ADD but I will never forget that one time me and you had to go borrow a hay-bail trailer from the neighbor and we went and grabbed it with the four-wheeler and you let me drive the four-wheeler on the way back and you stood on the trailer with your beer can jumping up and down because of the road. That made me feel so happy and proud of myself that you had trusted me to drive. That is my favorite GOOD memory with you. I still have one bad memory with you but I'm not going to tell that one because it makes me feel... I hope you will always know that I will always love you and I hope you are having as good of a time as you can up there wherever you are protecting me. This is not the first message I have wrote to you, I wrote another on Star Tribune. I love and miss you Grandpa. Love your oldest granddaughter, Brittany.”