"It's been said that you can choose your friends, your work, your hobbies, but not your family. Well, I am here to tell you that it's not always true. With Decware, we do get to pick our family. The Decware community is more than just a collection of people who share a common interest. You can feel it in the way that its members help each other, encourage collaboration, support experimentation, reward questions with sharing of knowledge, not disdain or ridicule. And it all starts with Decware's founder, Steve Deckert. Steve is an amazing human being, without whom the Decware family would not be what it is. And it should be surprise no one that the man who brought us Steve, his father Roane, is an amazing man, too.

Yesterday, Roane Deckert passed away after a short  battle with Binary Cancer. The Decware family in its entirety mourns Steve's loss, and we hope that Steve and Devon know that our hearts and prayers are with you now.  GH

To all Decware family members, I've been asked and think its a great idea to accept donations so we can send flowers to Steve and family. I think its a great idea, as it might for just a few seconds put a smile on Steve's face at this trying time in his life. I know since finding out about his dads illness he has had a very hard time dealing with it.

So anyone wanting to donate towards a flower fund can do so by PayPal to deckert-ziegler@hotmail.com

Thanks to all, and may God bless.

Bob Ziegler

Agreed ..... Steve has done a lot for the audio community and has been a good friend to all of us.

So sorry to hear about his loss.  I lost my Dad last year and it leaves an empty spot in a person's life.

Best wishes to Steve and the family,

Randy

DeVon and I thank you for all the kind words!  

My dad was a confident leader of many tallents and accomplishments and can be credited for being my inspiration and changing the lives of thousands of people.  His hobby was art, and here are a few examples of his work...







I had the extraordinary privilege of helping him complete his first published book before he died.  It was a historically accurate novel about immegrating to the United States and settling the west.  He spent the last ten years of his life working on it and was one chapter away from completing it when he became too sick to write.  I did the cover artwork for the book and handled the marketing.  It was an incredible joy to see him hold the first published copy of this book in his hands and a true gift from God to watch the satisfaction he got from selling nearly a thousand books in the thirty some days before he died.

You can see the book here: https://www.decware.com/excel/


-Steve

Those sculptures are amazing! What a beautiful hand! He left behind some wonderful things.

The flowers were received and my mom simply raves about them.  She accepted no flowers from funeral attendees (my dad was a minister of 3 churches with large congregations) but rather asked them to donate to one of my dads favorite charities instead.   Had she not done that there would have been literally thousands of flowers - too many. Of course sitting alone in her home on Monday with no flowers was the result... so this couldn't have worked out more perfect and we thank you very much.

Steve

Sorry to hear about this. My thoughts and best wishes are with you and yours, Steve.