{"id":819519,"date":"2021-09-27T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=819519"},"modified":"2021-09-27T08:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T12:44:15","slug":"gabby-petitos-father-gives-eulogy-if-there-is-a-relationship-that-youre-in-that-might-not-be-the-best-thing-for-you-leave-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabby-petitos-father-gives-eulogy-if-there-is-a-relationship-that-youre-in-that-might-not-be-the-best-thing-for-you-leave-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby Petito\u2019s Father Gives Eulogy: \u2018If There Is A Relationship That You\u2019re In That Might Not Be The Best Thing For You, Leave It. Now.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgabby-petitos-father-gives-eulogy-if-there-is-a-relationship-that-youre-in-that-might-not-be-the-best-thing-for-you-leave-it-now%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=819519&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235294863.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, as hundreds of mourners attended a service at a funeral home for Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old woman whose death prompted coverage across the world, her father told the audience, \u201cIf there is a relationship that you\u2019re in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it. Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Petito told the gathering at Moloney Holbrook Funeral Home:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"32\">\n<p><em>I don\u2019t want you guys to be sad. Gabby didn\u2019t live that way. That wasn\u2019t her way. \u2026 If you knew Gabby, she was always a pretty happy girl. People would gravitate to her; her nature was always to smile and treat everybody kind. She always made people feel welcome. \u2026 She always treated people with respect; it really didn\u2019t matter. \u2026 She cared. &nbsp;People would always come up to her and just sit and talk; it would take forever to get her out of it. It\u2019s wild to see what is happening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, growing up, she always had those blue eyes, those ridiculous blue eyes. You couldn\u2019t keep her in trouble; you would ground her and she\u2019d start crying, and I\u2019d fold. When I see a lady crying, I fold. If a guy cries, I don\u2019t care. (laughter) &nbsp;She\u2019d be crying, she actually would just do that on purpose just so I\u2019d take her off grounding. It worked. She always wanted to go out and do stuff, whether it was scuba diving with my uncle, or myself or hiking the Appalachian trail, surfing sand dunes in Colorado. \u2026 She had some wild experiences that I could only wish that I could experience. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want you to take a look at these pictures, and I want you to be inspired by Gabby. That\u2019s what we\u2019re looking for; that\u2019s something that I want to see. If there\u2019s a trip you guys want to take, take it. Now. Do it now while you have the time. If there is a relationship that you\u2019re in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it. Now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Petito\u2019s stepfather, Jim Schmidt, a former local fire chief, referencing the &nbsp;roughly 200 firefighters in attendance, added, \u201cYou all got to see our extended family, the firehouse family, come through here. We do funerals, unfortunately, and we\u2019re good at it. Throughout my career, I\u2019ve written eulogies, planned these funerals; not one of them could have prepared me for this moment. My grandmother told me \u2014 she\u2019s going to be 100 next month, when we buried my mom earlier this year, parents aren\u2019t supposed to bury their children. That\u2019s not how life is supposed to work. But it is an unfortunate reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGabby, at 22 years old, helped teach me that you can always make money, but you can\u2019t make up for lost time. Gabby loved life and lived her life every single day. \u2026 She is an example for all of us to live life, to enjoy every moment in this beautiful world that she did. Love and give love like she did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gabby Petito&#039;s father, stepfather speak at funeral\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ONoJ8uImetQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>A prayer card was passed out at the service that stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>Do not grieve for me for I am free. I am traveling a path the Lord has taken me. Be not burdened with times of sorrow. I wish for you the sunshine of tomorrow. Perhaps my time seemed too brief. Do not lengthen it with undue grief. Lift up your hearts and share with me the memories that will always be.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On July 2, Gabby Petito left New York with her fianc\u00e9, Brian Laundrie. They took a road trip to Colorado and Utah. &nbsp;On August 12, a park ranger from Utah\u2019s Arches National Park <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/park-ranger-warned-gabby-petito-of-toxic-relationship-urged-her-to-find-another-path-before-disappearance\/\">warned<\/a> Gabby Petito that her relationship with her fianc\u00e9 Brian Laundrie appeared \u201ctoxic\u201d and urged her to \u201cfind another path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Hulls, who had responded to a domestic disturbance call, said, \u201cI was probably more candid with her than I should\u2019ve been. I was imploring with her to reevaluate the relationship, asking her if she was happy in the relationship with him, and basically saying this was an opportunity for her to find another path, to make a change in her life. \u2026 She had a lot of anxiety about being away from him, I honestly thought if anything was going to change it would be after they got home to Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last time Petito was seen alive was on August 27 at a Jackson Hole, Wyoming restaurant. On August 30, a text was sent from her phone: \u201cNo service in Yosemite.\u201d On September 19 human remains matching her description were found at Spread Creek campground. The FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-fbi-confirms-body-found-in-wyoming-is-gabby-petito-rules-death-a-homicide\/\">confirmed<\/a> that the body was hers and they ruled the cause of death to be a homicide.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, as hundreds of mourners attended a service at a funeral home for Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old woman whose death prompted coverage across the world, her father told the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}