Author: Courtney Tanner / Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Sandy • Every day, David Stokoe walked into the board room of the real estate company where he worked, took his seat at exactly 9 a.m. — having a penchant for punctuality — and declared to his colleagues: “Today is great because I choose to make it great.
”When Stokoe started that ritual on his first day there three years ago, Michael Carter remembered laughing at how goofy it was. “That was so weird,” he whispered to a realtor next to him. “Who is this weird dude?”
But Stokoe kept saying it anyway. And Carter, who stood outside RANLife Home Loans on Monday evening, said the positive saying slowly grew on him. Now he’ll miss hearing it. He repeated the line as he pounded his chest like Stokoe used to and choked back tears.
The roughly 100 people in the crowd put a fist to their chests, too. They came here to remember Stokoe, who police say was killed last week while attempting to evict tenants at a Salt Lake City apartment.
Friends and family and coworkers stood outside of his office in Sandy as it lightly snowed, telling stories about the confident and charismatic broker who liked to buy the worst looking buildings and make them beautiful. They talked about how he could remember everyone’s name — and their wife’s name and their kids’ names and their dog’s name. They joked about his funny quirks, how he couldn’t dance, loved the movie “Gladiator” and was full of positive quotes.
They helped one another light candles and hugged each other when their sobs blew them out. Mostly, they just tried to console one another, tried…
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