There are many that visit this forum on a regular basis and for a number of reasons are uncomfortable participating. Often they are hesitant due to its, sometimes, combative interplay and don't want to loose their friendship-at-a-distance good regard for what they find here.
As your father-in-law considered himself a member of the FR community, I'm sure we send him a big EAGLES UP and ask that he is recieved into the arms of his maker with a tenderness that we combatants down here are often incapable of showing until too late.
I am also a Freeper who visits several times a day, but never posts. Bob was a good friend of mine and the father of my son-in law. He will be greatly missed. Goodbye Bob. We will see you and Alice later.