[curiousuburb]

Sorry for your loss.

What about two passages?

One describing the good times (which may fit the tone of the folder, and/or be positive about those influences as you remember them).

One describing the loss of a father (which may for others refer to shuffling the mortal coil, and/or earlier losses as you remember them).

Find something for the first bit and then argue for Phelbas again, perhaps.