Phillip Brian Wade

On Wednesday, March 19th 2025...
Heaven's gain was our enormous loss.
The effect of Phil's departure (from this Earth) is so widespread... The number of broken hearts, left behind, is infinite...

All of the memories... all of the photos... all of the stories...
Those are now the beautiful, scattered pieces that make up his legacy.

And what a legacy that is!
It would be absolutely impossible to tell it all... especially when you're limited to just a few paragraphs.

Anyone can be a Husband... a Father...a Son... a Brother... an Uncle... a Friend...
But, no one values each of those roles as much as.. nor will they ever execute them better than Phil did.  
He was the best of the best! He opened his heart up to so many people and had so much passion for the things he loved to do...
that he pushed it well beyond full capacity...
No mortal heart has the ability to house that amount of love and passion... without exploding.  

Two of those roles were TOP Priority!  

The 32 years being Ashley's Dad...
He mastered that role!  If you were to ask Ashley... she remembers her Dad as being her "Hero".
Every day they spent together.. was "an adventure"! He made sure that their time together was meaningful....
Money... or lack of... was never a deciding/defining factor in that.  He always either had her up in the woods... scouting, berry picking, hunting, or just taking a drive...
Or down on the beach... clam digging, fishing, or just sitting together.. watching the waves roll in..
She walked away from every single one of those moments feeling so loved and full of a whole lot of "Phil Knowledge"...that only her Dad could give her.
The time they spent together was absolutely PRICELESS... Something that no amount of money could buy. And he loved her more than any Dad could ever love his child..

Second to being Ashley's Dad...

The 25 years that he was Sherri's Best Friend/Partner/Husband...
One of the things that Sherri has always loved so much about Phil... is how AMAZING he was at being Ashley's Dad. And the fact that (he made it very clear) any other person in this world would always come second to his kid!
The admiration and heart-melting love she had for him because of that has always been so intense...
When he invited her to be a part of that precious relationship.. and he entrusted her to be "Bonus Mom" to Ashley... Sherri fell more in love with Phil..

But he was also Sherri's "Hero" in so many ways!  The Best Friend that she shared her most vulnerable self to... who loved every single piece of her...

The "Partner" who defined the meaning of the word "Partner"...

Partner in life... Partner in crime... Partner in sickness... Partner in health...
Partner in so many ways that it should have just been (more appropriately) labeled "Best Damn Wing Man Of All Time!"

The Husband...

The man who's outer exterior screamed "Big Bear!"
(Anyone, who might ever attempt to threaten his wife's safety or wellbeing... may as well dig their own grave...kind of Bear)

But who's inner interior...
Was softer and more kind hearted than the Pope, himself! He loved her so deeply...
Being the Husband that he knew Sherri deserved... he would have dug his own grave and laid down in it... if he ever felt that he failed her...
We should all be so lucky to experience the LOVE OF A LIFETIME that Phil and Sherri have.

We would all be struck dead if we didn't mention his love and passion for all things "Outdoors"!
Phil didn't ever mess around with "Idle Time"...
The sun came up... several hours after he his tires hit gravel... or after his fishing line broke the surface of whatever water he was fishing..
There isn't a secret "Honey Hole" or "Undiscovered Spur Road" that he didn't know about. 99% of the memories we all have with... stories we have about Phil... are staged smack dab in the middle of the greatest outdoors!

The Best Man to Ever Live... spent his 53 (short years) Hunting... Fishing.. and Loving EVERY DAY!

A celebration of life ceremony will be held at Borst Park, Kitchen #1 in Centralia on Sunday, April 13th from 12:00-3:00.

 

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