A year ago, despite encouragement and support from his family and friends, our father, Errol Joseph Maitland yielded to complications of diabetes, hypertension and a broken heart. He was only sixty.
There have been many changes in the businesses he worked so hard to establish, many of them too painful to accept. It is common knowledge that he would have done things differently, and, in our opinion, better.
Life goes on, and we get older, but will we ever be as wise as he was? Can we reach as far as he did?
We are convinced that Errol J. Maitland was blessed. We have no doubt that our Dad was special. His success had nothing to do with luck.
We keep on making the best effort we can to ensure that we keep his lifelong work afloat, despite the odds, despite the animosity, despite the incomprehensive changes.
E. J. Maitland will be missed for a very long time. Even though he was far from perfect, even though he could have done better, there is nothing to convince us that he did not mean well.
Many more years will pass and many other changes will be implemented.
In spite of everything, Errol Joseph Maitland, Maitie, our Daddy, will live forever. He has never left our hearts and will always be a part of us.
And the animosity continues, with the intellectually challenged resorting to gutter tactics in an effort to weaken the effort for fairness.
But the truth always comes to light. And the underdog eventually gets his just reward.
God, Our Heavenly Father, is the final Judge. Human makes plans, human cheats, and human steals. Human is biased, human makes mistakes. God is perfect, God is omnipotent.
All I ask is that He forgives them all.