Mike Isenberg had no possessions of his late father, a former Pekin firefighter, only bittersweet memories. His daughter, Bridget, barely knew the man.
The three came together this month, in a way that has the two believing Richard Isenberg made it so with love from the afterlife.
“I look at it as an incredibly fateful thing, so does my daughter,” Mike, 64, said from his Hollywood, Calif., home.
His father returned to their lives last Sunday when Pekin Firefighter Nic Sandifar placed in Bridget’s hands two badges, in their leather cases, and ID cards that Richard Isenberg carried as the department’s fire inspector before he retired in 1982.