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Contributions

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Condolences for James Sullivan

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From : Tony Bryan
To : Marlene
Date: January 12th 2007

I'm very sorry for your loss. Jim's was always a positive, friendly face to see.

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From : Jack & Marla Kinney
To : Jimmy
Date: January 12th 2007

Jimmy,

You are our very dear friend and we are extremely saddened by your passing from this earth. We will always have very fond rememberances of our times together, at the Jersey shore, and of course rooting for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Our prayers and thoughts are with you and your loved ones at this time. My God bless you and watch out over you as you share his peace and happiness in heaven forever.

Love,

Marla, Jack & Justine

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From : stacey collings
To : marlene (sullivan) mehn
Date: January 12th 2007

Marlene- my thoughts and prayers are with you, Laz, and your family during this time. Please know we all are thinking of you and sending our love your way.
Stacey

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From : Letitia and Patrick Kanar
To : Marlene and Laszlo Mehn
Date: January 12th 2007

We are so sorry to hear of your loss. Please accept our deepest sympathies. If there is anything that you need or anything that we can do, just let us know.
Love,
Tish and Pat

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From : Richard A. King
To : The family of James P. "Sully" Sullivan
Date: January 12th 2007

Sully was my friend, confidant and OSU partner. He had become a regular part of my day (and life) through telephone calls and e-mails, regular lunches and dinners, and regular attendance together at a variety of sporting events, dominated, of course, by OSU sporting events, all of which I looked forward to and enjoyed. If I didn't talk to Sully 5 times a day, a couple of times on weekend days and during OSU basketball & football games, the day was not complete ( I dread to think of how often we would have talked if he had a cell phone!). I miss him dearly and he will (and has) sadly come to mind each time I see the OSU logo, read an article about OSU, or attend an OSU sporting event. I will feel guilty (and somewhat alone, regardless of who I am with) at future OSU sporting events because I am present and Sully is not. Future OSU road trips will never be the same because Sully will not be present. Sully gave each road trip its personality and his antics created the primary memories from those trips. I felt as if I knew his family and friends before I actually met them because of his constant reference to and descriptions of them. He befriended our family, particularly our sons, Brendan and Patrick, and was part of some of our family events. He called my wife "dear," always asked after our grandsons and our son & daughter-in-law in Georgia, was excited to meet our extended family at Brendan's wedding in 2004, and talked about how pleased he was to become acquainted with members of our extended family. At the end of the wedding reception, my brother-in-law, who Sully first met that evening, took him home. Sully has asked after my brother-in-law by his first name frequently since the wedding, as my brother-in-law has asked about Sully. The point - they became friends. The larger point - Sully made friends, made you his friend, and nothing was ever the same. Sully wasn't just your friend. SULLY TOOK CARE OF YOU. Sully would pass along information based on your interests, would bring you into the lives of his friends, would be interested in everything you did and and were planning, and would always ask about your activities and events. He never imposed, always had good suggestions, was always grateful for what you did for him (Craig Mohre and I arranged his surprise 50th birthday party in September 2004 and I have tired of his thank you's to me for arranging that event; thank you's that persisted to this day!) and I always felt comfortable talking with Sully about anything. If I needed information on a restaurant, I asked Sully; if I needed information on a medication, I asked Sully (and he called his sister to acquire the information), if I needed information on a brand of men's clothing, an appliance, an electronic device, or where to buy something, I asked Sully. Items in our home today are there today because of the advice given by Sully. Work done in our home has been done by a contractor referred by Sully. He never missed a deadline; when he said he would call, when he said he would give you something, he did so without failure. He would frequently tell me he wanted me to see an article in the Buckeye Sports Bulletin (BSB)....and he would deliver it to my office, walking from his building across a good portion of downtown Columbus to my office. Why - because he went out of his way - like nobody I have ever known - for his friends. He was generous to a fault; for example, each time he would get up from his seat at an OSU game, he asked each in his party if he could bring them something from the concession stand.....and he would return with the requested items without question or reimbursement. Every time he was in my car and we encountered a parking charge, toll or other fee related to the trip, Sully was the first person to hand me money. It got to the point that I refused to let him pay, and I began to pay for many of lunches and dinners because I didn't think it was fair for him to pay for everything, and because I wanted to repay his many favors to me.
When I first became friends with Sully, I was City Manager of Upper Arlington, a position which had become stressful for me. He implicitly understood the stress, and was delighted for me when I left that position on 2000 for a position in the private sector. Other than my wife, he was the first to mention how much more relaxed I seemed (and was!) in the new position, and he would frequently, out of the blue, remind of how good it was for me that I was no longer in the UA position, which, of course, was correct and which I agreed with completely - another example of Sully taking care of me!
Last fall, I bought six tickets for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tourney at Nationwide Arena in March 2007. Of course, one of those tickets was for Sully. I will find another friend to use that ticket. But, the extra ticket I have for that and all future sporting events will, regardless of who is actually sitting in the seat next to me, always belong to Sully and I will think of him first for that extra ticket for many years to come. He and I attended each of the OSU home football games (section 5A) during the national champiosnhip season of 2002, and along with Craig Mohre and Brendan, we also attended the classic game with Purdue in West Lafayette that year. I have cherished those memories in their own right, and Sully and I have talked frequently, as you may imagine, about that season and the Purdue game. Now, those memories have so much more meaning and value to me. Craig, Sully and I, along with a friend of Craig's bought season tickets together for the opening season at the Schott, followed OSU through that magical basketball season, rejoiced in their surprising advance through the NCAA tourney in 2000 and made a road trip to Indy to watch OSU play in the NCAA tourney. We have bought those same tickets at the Schott each year. In the second year (00-01?), we were not permitted access to the Huntington Club due to the absence of a small red sticker on our tickets. Sully located the same red adhesive material and purchased a punch of the same size, and produced stickers for our tickets, and we enjoyed even more our acccess to the Huntington Club that basketball season!
I admire Sully, I love him and I miss him deeply now. He will live in my memory and heart for the rest of my life. Although I will never not feel Sully's absence and that will be a sad feeling, I believe Sully is in a better, peaceful place now, and that gives me some comfort. As good as heaven may be, it will be better because Sully is there. In the future, I am convinced that I will be aware of his influence and guidance in my life.

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From : George and Rosemary Factor
To : Marlene Mehn
Date: January 12th 2007

Please know you are in our thoughts and prayers with the sudden passing of your brother. Our deepest sympathy during this time..

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From : Jennifer Kim
To : All the Friends and Relatives
Date: January 12th 2007

My deepest condolences to the relatives and all the many, many friends of Sully. I only met Sully a few times, but I talked to him many times on the phone when he would call for Rich King. He was always so kind aksing how my weekend was or how my vacation had been. He never failed to make me feel like I was a friend too. I got a real kick out of it when he would give me some news on OSU atletes. It seemed like he was always the first to know things! He will be greatly missed even by those who only knew him as I did - over the phone. My prayers are with all of you.

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From : Mary Tabino
To : Marlene Mehn
Date: January 12th 2007

Marlene,

I am sorry to hear about your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you and you family. Please let me know if I can be of any help.

Mary

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From : Georgia & Bill Stolz
To : Marlene Mehn,
Date: January 13th 2007

Marlene, Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this sad time. Sorry we could not be there. Our most sincere sympathy.

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From : Tim Kelsey
To : The Family of Jim
Date: January 13th 2007

I am truly sorry for your lost. For the last year I caught the bus with Jim and I was so sad to hear that he had died. He was a stand up guy and he must have been a great brother and son. He spoke how excited that he was going home to go to the Penn State game in February and how he was so proud of his two nephews. I will miss our talks but I am a better person for knowing your brother/uncle/friend. May God allow him to rest in peace.

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From : Marie McNeal
To : Sully's family
Date: January 13th 2007

I was very sad to learn of Sully's passing. He has been a friend of our family for many, many years. I love the photo....it shows his great smile, something he always wore.

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From : The Mark Mohre Family
To : James P. "Sully" Sullivan Family & Friends
Date: January 13th 2007

Sully, may you rest in peace. May God Bless you and your family forever in Jesus name.
You have touched the lives of so many people with your humor, love for sports, and kindness to others.

You, and the Buckeyes finished #1!

All our love,
Mark, Mary & Steven Mohre

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From : The Mark Mohre Family
To : James P. "Sully" Sullivan Family & Friends
Date: January 13th 2007

Sully, may you rest in peace. May God Bless you and your family forever in Jesus name.
You have touched the lives of so many people with your humor, love for sports, and kindness to others.

You, and the Buckeyes finished #1!

All our love,
Mark, Mary & Steven Mohre

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From : rich huffman
To : jsmileyjr@aol.com
Date: January 15th 2007

sully was best...buckeye games wont be the same.......could you please send me copy of the eulogy and program from the ceremony..i did not get one....i will be sending something for the scholarship fund....... we will all miss him dearly.....huff

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From : rich huffman
To : jsmileyjr@aol.com
Date: January 15th 2007

jim....not sure i gave you my e-mail....
thnks rich....

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From : Craig Mohre & Family
To : Marlene & Family
Date: January 15th 2007

Marlene - first, I want to thank you for having Sully's funeral in Columbus. As you know, he had so many good friends here. We considered him family, and indeed, he was. To my girls, he'll always be Uncle Sully. He bought them their first dresses and they were absolutely beautiful. Sully's impeccable taste. And in one of our last conversations, he lobbied me hard to get them another dog. This was an ongoing theme for him. And while I resisted, I knew he was reminding me of what was important... their happiness. I don't need to tell you that Sully was a remarkable person. He so touched our lives in so many ways. He was so much fun on the many road trips to away games. I always appreciated that it wasn't the games that were so memorable, but rather, the fun times we had together. Sully was the best entertainment on road trips. I will always treasure those memories... and there are hundreds of them.
But most of all, I'll remember how Sully cared about me and my family. He remembered every detail and always asked about my brother, who has faced some difficulties, or my parents health or whatever.

I guess I could go on for hours and I don't want to bore you. Please know your in our thoughts and prayers. That we'll miss him and never forget him. And if and when you're in Columbus, let us know so we can get together and reminisce.

-- Craig

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From : Chris
To : Sully
Date: January 16th 2007

Sully - I barely knew you, but you always had a smile, a joke and some inside information. You were a good guy, and you will be missed.

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