“He just wanted to make people happy,” his daughter said.
Losing his leg as a result of cancer more than 20 years ago did not stop Joel Strom from living his life. The Long Island grandfather drove himself to work everyday, was obsessed with his grandson, and loved devouring lobster with his friends in the summertime.
The family has not yet received the death certificate, and Amy Strom said they were told to expect a delay because of how many deaths are currently being processed.“My dad was hands down one of the nicest, sweetest [people] anyone had ever met. He was literally, like, a selfless human being,” Amy said during a phone call. “He wanted to make people laugh all the time — he wasn't funny at all. He was not funny, but he’d try… Dad jokes. He tried so hard … He just wanted to make people happy.
“I would ask him like clothing questions and, like, he didn't care at all. He had no fashion sense and genuinely didn't care but would, like, pretend to care or only care because it was me asking,” she said. One of his longtime best friends, Donna Kopf, last saw Strom at the party. The two had been best friends since high school, and in a phone call with BuzzFeed News, she said she and her husband and Strom and his wife Linda would get together to spend summer weekends together, and that the highlight was always watching Joel eat lobster.
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