January 12, Richard Donfro’s Memorial Dinner

January 12, Richard Donfro’s Memorial Dinner

Richard Donfro was a wonderful client and friend.  We had visited him and Rose last Sunday and he passed away in his sleep on Tuesday or Wednesday.  So on Saturday his partner, Rose Marie, who owns Rose’s Table Café at Mesa del Sol opened her restaurant to all of his friends for a dinner and celebration of his life.

I took a bottle of Seagram’s Crown Royale that Richard had given to me inscribed with a medallion label that said “Robert Simon, Super Hero”.  He was a very sensitive person and recognized when others were looking out for his interest before their own and I think he saw that in me, which formed the basis for our long relationship.  The facts of the case when we met were that I did a bankruptcy and some slight of hand corporate re-organization for Richard and a vendor who had a false claim sued Richard for non-discharge of the claim in the bankruptcy and we were able to fight our way through the claim adjudication in bankruptcy court.

Anyway, the restaurant was filled with over twenty folks when we arrived around 7:00 p.m.

There were motorcycle buddies and old friends from Richard’s past and lots of folks who knew Richard and loved him for all the reasons I did

Rose served lots of wonderful food, mostly gathered from specialty purveyors, like coconut coated fried shrimp, for which Rose made a lovely strawberry yogurt dipping sauce, and a pork knuckles on a bone and rice and lots of desserts including my favorite, Chess Pie.

Nok, Richard’s longtime companion, brought a tray of eggrolls and sweet chili dipping sauce

I brought the bottle of Crown Royale

It was a great party and everyone seemed to have an interesting and loving story to tell about Richard, so it was a great evening.

Bon Appètit