Hard to believe that one year has passed on the day, August 23, 2010. Speaking for myself and perhaps some who are close to me, it feels like it was all a very bad dream, and we will wake up, and find out Terry is still here. His passing changed everything in our lives, and left a giant hole, and no matter what one does, it doesn't go away. We still expect to see him alive and well and doing all those many things that he loved to do.
I woked for Terry and Suzette in the office where he practiced Periodontics in Albuquerque. I worked with them for 7 plus years. We three made a good team, and there were big plans in the works. It still seems like I should go to work and when I get there, I will find that it is all the same. A big day with patients lined up, and all of us ready to get to it. Getting through the mornings, and many times having lunch in the back together. When you are going through your routines of a day, you never imagine that the next week, you will not see everyone in the same state again. That some of them will be gone, and one will be severely injured and devastated by loss. You take for granted that everyone is going to stay in the places that you have them and see them, and that you will never have be without them. It is a lesson, and severe hard one, - be kind to everyone, pay attention to what they are sayhing and doing, give them all the love they deserve and you can muster, look at them in the eye, tell them you care, and will for always. Ask them if they need anything, and there anything you can do to make their life better. I see now that I left out a few things, I have spent a lot of time at the home he had in the mountains, with his wife Suzette, who is my neice. When I am there around all the things that were part of Terry, I feel his presence in every blade of grass, every breeze that blows, every bird that rests on the bird feeders he placed there, the deck he built, the barbeque grill he stood in front of making special dinners for their f riends and for he and Suzette, - I feel what thoughts he had when he built the fence around the back, and when he reorganized his garage. It just doesn't seem like he really left. It just still does not feel like to me that he left according to any devine plan, but left way too soon. He is missed, terribly, and I do hope that where he is, he has found the answers he sought, and is somehow doing something to help the rest of us get to a place of peace also.
It's a rough road, but I bet he is there, up there, or some where, helping the planet, helping each of us. So there you are Terry, with the angels and God, - you were a big being in the earthly life, so I can imagine that you are gargantuan on the other side. An understatement is that we miss you here, and we are trying to get along without you, but it is not easy.
Donna Wold

As a staff member at the School for Esoteric Studies (first in New York and now in North Carolina) I missed knowing Terry personally. However, we were privleged to be spiritual co-workers with Terry for many years, and I grew to have a sense of his personality. Just a hint of his personality, really, because he was extremely modest on paper and seemingly loathe to go into detail about himself. We enjoyed his occasional communications, though, and will miss him as a faithful member of this group for these 36 years. We send our condolences and blessings to Suzette and the entire family.

Terry (Slow Speed) Soesbe was a friend. He was a constant in a world of shift and change. He was always the stable and unchanging member of our group. His contributions to our group were always appreciated. He brought humor and reasonable judgement. I have known Terry well since 1971 when he was the first periodontal resident that I worked with after I became Program Directorl. He was always supportive and willing to help in any capacity to make things work out. I am priviledged to have been able to know and work with Terry through these years. May God bless Suzette and all of Terry's family through these very difficult times.

Dr. Terry Soesbe was a dental school classmate at The University of Missouri School of Dentistry starting in the summer of 1964. As a lab bench partner we became friends and colleagues sharing the similar experiences of dental school, internships, staff dentist positions, then as periodontal residents and later as staff periodontists in the U.S. Veterans Administration. We shared much during those times. The gracious love, sensitivity and respect Terry exuded was a joy to behold. I marveled at Terry's composure while in dental school as he was married with a young family and was challenged with a gravely ill child.

Our travels together over the years have also brought much joy by just remembering all of Terry's adventures and misadventures. His interests in photography, astronomy, spirituality, ultra-light aircraft, sailing and telling of jokes were constant sources of great stories among Terry's periodontal colleagues and traveling companions on a yearly schedule since 1981.

Terry, our lives are much enriched for having you as a friend. It is a mystery that those who mean the most to us are the ones gone before we can tell them how much their lives have so profoundly and so positively affected us. Terry old friend, I will miss our walks together on the hiking trail as you look for that perfect subject to photograph. I will miss reading your poetry, prose and stories. May your Spirit now be in the most perfect existence.

Chuck Squire

From Uncle Terry getting me my first camera to Suzette getting me hooked on pumpkin cheesecake, all of my memories are fond ones. Uncle Terry you were one of the good ones and we will all miss you dearly. My love goes out to Suzette, stay strong.
Love, Chad