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Seamus Kelly
April 30, 2011
Uncle David,
As your brothers and sister prepare to send you off, I'll say goodbye. You will be at peace, though sorely missed. Until we meet again,
Take it easy Guy.
Josephine Houser
March 1, 2011
David Kelly was a healer doing Accupuncture and I was a recipient of his expertise. He treated me for asthma with 2 treatments per week for 1 year. I was a friend of his and I also lost a daughter like David did. I will miss his humour, gentleness and his Irish face. God bless. Josephine
February 28, 2011
David Kelly was a power house a mountain of pure energy one of the most important people in my life. I found out that he passed away today 2/28/11, and it stopped my world for hours... we will miss him { antonia leyba abq nm
Donald Houser
February 27, 2011
David was a friendly,loving, and caring person. I enjoyed talking to him whenever he came to Santa Fe. He had a challenging mind and truely cared about people. We shared the heart ache that the death of child brings and felt a strong kinship. I will miss him and pray for his new life on the other side.
Don Houser
Lorraine Evans
February 16, 2011
I have known David for several years. He saved my life when I came back from a trip to Guatemala. He healed my family and myself and I am grateful.
I send my condolences to his family.
I will truly miss him.
Dave Cherry
February 16, 2011
David Kelly, or Kelly as we who knew him for many years called him, was a truly original and humble soul. He was the the most giving and caring person I ever knew, and a healer whose art came more from within than from all the training and studying he credited instead.
I first met him in 1970 or 71, walking into a house with a little waif on his shoulders. I don't believe he ever got over the death of his daughter, Niko, nor do I think any parent could be expected to. He will be greatly missed by all of us whose lives he touched.
Rest in Peace, Kelly
Jocelyn Warner
February 16, 2011
David was a good friend of the family. Niko and I were very close as well and he treated me like a daughter. He was always there when I needed someone to talk to and he helped me through some difficult times and health problems. He was a free thinker and I admired him for that. I am deeply saddened by his passing, he will be missed.
Mary McCarthy
February 16, 2011
Dear Margaret & Entire Kelly Family -
I'm so sorry to hear of David's passing away. We shared a lot of laughs together many many years ago. Always a gentleman & friend. David is in my thoughts & prayers as are all of you. Butch & Angela also send their condolences.
Mary McCarthy
Sharon Juan and Max
February 15, 2011
We knew that David was having some really tough health problems and were glad that he went to Chicago to be with his family. We send our deepest condolences to his dear ones, who gave him the greatest joy.
David was always kind with a twinkle with our son Max, who is now almost 8. David gave Max at least one pocket knife, which he treasures.
We will always remember David and his special smile.
Melissa Campbell/Mueller
February 15, 2011
I'm very thankful that I had the chance to know David. He was a big part of my childhood. Bee, David and Niko took me in and helped me to become the person I am today. Rest in peace David. You will be remembered.
tania goldfeder
February 13, 2011
You were always there for me, David. Thank you for that. I will always remember you. May you rest in peace, with Nikko and those you love. OM Shanti
Robert Reines
February 13, 2011
?David Kelly was my oldest friend. I called him Kelly, my kids called him Kelly, my wives called him Kelly. . For the past 41 years he was always been there for all of us. He was kind, selfless, and always helping others with an extraordinary sense of humor and lightheartedness. He studied for many years to become an acupuncturist/healer, helping the many people he touched.
I met Kelly in 1970 in the Air Force base hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. My first wife Eileen (who worked with Ina, Kelly's wife Birute's sister) brought Kelly, who wanted cheer on my recovery. I opened my eyes for the first time since the motorcycle accident, and Kelly was standing there, beaming, That was the beginning of our friendship.
In the early days we created brass and leather jewelery together. Kelly was always interested in shortwave radios, building projects and digging. He is the only person I knew who could wear out the metal on a shovel digging into the earth (One of his great passions was digging with a t shirt wrapped around his head, looking more like the Arabs then the Irish!). He both constructed, and then years later deconstructed, a complete solar and wind powered house. He put solar panels on his van and decorated it with wires everywhere for lights, speakers, meters and knobs with uninsulated untapped connections, all held together with the force of his personality.
He could live well in his van in a colorful gypsy mode as he traveled from his place in the hills above Albuquerque, to town to his acupuncture office, and beyond. Later he had a room in his house on Grand for his acupuncture patients. He grew a wall of bamboo outside the entrance over 15' high. Wherever he lived he had plants, always bamboo that he brought from trips to California and gardens, usually in places where it would seem impossible to grow anything. He was always delighted to show you his squash , lettuce, and tomato plants growing well in the most difficult sidewalk and backyard environments. Kelly left gardens as a legacy as he moved about in Albuquerque.
Kelly not only had a strong connection, in the full sense of the word, to the earth he was also a spiritual fellow with a far reaching curiosity in the ways of the world, and the problems and new methods and cures for his increasing number of patients. Kelly would always want to "tune me up", balance my pulses and resolve various problems which he observed. What he did though non-traditional, centuries old practice did seem to work, as I would always be improved and very appreciative of his healing skills.
He deeply wanted to help people return to more balanced healthy lives. Kelly was a barometer of the the state of the overall human condition. Problems and recoveries seemed to come in waves, ebb and flow. He would always be enthusiastic about new techniques and ideas he was developing to become more efficient in his art. I remember him washing his hands before and after a treatment- the formal beginning and end of a session. He said he did this to first warm his hands, and then to wash off the effects of the treatment and to protect himself.
Kelly and I could sit together and talk from sunup to sunset drinking tea. We did this many times and in many places always enjoying sharing our discoveries, perceptions and insights into ourselves and life. We could inhabit a whole world around two cups of tea and thinly buttered toast.
Toward the end, Kelly's health became our concern. My wife Anne, a nurse, suggested he seek medical help and explained carefully her assessment. Kelly understood this, as he had formal university courses in anatomy and so on in the course of his studies. During that time we would meet at Mannie’s, a restaurant in Albuquerque, where we would have a meal, usually joined by one of my kids. It was always a celebration. In passing I would ask Kelly about what he was doing about his health in terms of conventional medicine, in addition to his oriental expertise. Although Kelly agreed with us, and said what we needed to hear to reduce our worry, he did not follow up with western medicine to help him.
He healed others, but in the end could not heal himself. He did not reach out for contemporary medical help that may have saved him. Kelly has touched my life and the lives of so many others. His intellect and mercurial ways, his smile and laugh and ability to find contentment with the absolute minimum will always be part of us. He has given us all so much. I'm going miss you, Kelly.
February 12, 2011
Our Deepest condolences to the entire Kelly family,whom we have never met. David was a long time friend of ours who we met in the early 1980's His wonderful healing abilities with Acupuncture and his friendship meant a great deal to us both.
Bob Sherman& Kathy Gartley Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mollie and Chris Reddington
February 11, 2011
To David's Family, Know that he will be really missed. I have always credited him with saving my life so many years ago. He was loved and loved so many. We will miss you David and send you on your way with many blessings and much love,
Mollie and Chris Reddington
Shannon Kelly
February 11, 2011
These are days no Mother should see
Six years
This very day
Young Ian
Ravaged by decay
Oh he wasn't so young really
But every Mothers Son is her young boy
And always will
They had a year or more to say before their time was gone
He would come Guitar in hand
And she would hear him play
They would talk and she would look and watch him fade away
He would be brave for her
As she would be for he
And had they cause to cry together
I really cannot say
After four days the brothers carried him
They set him in the ground
What sort of Birthday gift is this I ask
For a mother to endure
But endure she did
And must again it seems
As late last night past Midnight
The call came from far away
On the line Brother James' voice
Brother Davids passed away
Noleen Power
February 11, 2011
Uncle David,
Upbeat, offbeat, weird and wonderful, you were a ray of sunshine in my life.
Your presence will be missed at Kelly gatherings, but your spirit lives on in all of us.
Slán agus beannacht leat! xoxo
Marty Beck
February 11, 2011
To all those who were a part of David Kelly's legendary life and still are-- I have a few thoughts to share.
I have known David since 1979 and have always loved him. We all know how unique he was. But he was more to me than his character. Much more. He influenced my life in ways no other single person ever did. I wouldn't be where I am today without him. I wouldn't be who I am without him, and I wouldn't know the world I live in without him. No single person influenced me in as many ways as Kelly did.
He got me to build a solar house that has been no end to my growth in life. He taught me about myself and he healed me through all my life's pains. He taught me about all the esoteric subjects in life. He knew so much about all the subjects that are so hard to broach. He got me to see the very fabric of our society. I will always see the world partially through his eyes. I thank him for his choice to live on through me and I hope he took a little of me with him.
I will surely think of him in his absence as much as I do now, so I have a lot to think about. Thanks for everything Dave. Like Kelly coffee, the T-shirt hat, how to handle a shovel, all the treatments, all the notions and tea and so many things I know in me.
Your friend for ever,
Marty Be
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Noleen Power
February 11, 2011
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Noleen Power
February 11, 2011
Tom Cavin
February 10, 2011
Rest in peace, uncle David. You and your kind soul will be missed.
Martin &Eileen Forkan &Family
February 10, 2011
Our deepest sympathy to Brian Kathy his mum Margaret and all of the Kelly on hearing of Davids passing. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.
Patrick Kelly
February 10, 2011
Rest in peace, Uncle David. We will miss you. I will never forget the comfort and perspective you brought me when my little brother died, the most difficult time in my life. My condolences to all who knew him.
Sidney and Jesse and Bee
February 9, 2011
Our deepest condolences to the whole family... May David rest in peace.
Tom Chancey
February 9, 2011
I recently heard of the passing of Dave who was a good friend of mine. He treated me with his acupuncture and helped me through a tough time. I, and his many friends here in the east mountains outside of Albuquerque were saddened to hear of his passing. We will miss him.
Carol Richter
February 9, 2011
My prayers and thoughts are with you during this time of loss of Dave. He was a friend for years to my husband who passed 3 years ago. HIs help with acupuncture was very much appreciated and brought my husband though some difficult times during his lung cancer treatments. He credited Dave for giving him immense relief from the effects of chemo and radiation. He was a great healer. He will be missed.
February 9, 2011
My condolences to you and your family Brian.
Joe Flores
Tim & Bill McNicholas
February 9, 2011
My deepest sympaty and condolence to you and your family. My prayers are with all of you in this trying time.
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