Community gathers to celebrate the life of Pat Dietz
Editor’s note: Pat Dietz, the iconic co-founder of Dietz Brothers Music in Manhattan Beach, passed away June 28 after being injured while saving his grandson from an out-of-control car in Torrance two days earlier. Due to the nature of his death, the family had to delay his burial and memorial until a cause of death was officially determined by authorities. Dietz, 68, was laid to rest in a private ceremony in July. He will be celebrated at a community memorial at the Kiwanis Club and Valley Park in Hermosa Beach on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Following is the eulogy delivered at his funeral by his daughter, Kelly Dietz Johnson. To begin, an excerpt from “Hannah Coulter,” a novel by Pat’s favorite writer, Wendell Berry: “I began to know my story then. Like everybody’s, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a child I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the…
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