1/30/26

Remembering Allen Zamrok

 Zam’s Celebration of Life (1/10/26, Key West, Florida)


Hi, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Jacki’s older brother, Daniel.


By Marriage, Zam became my brother. My parents taught me from when I was very young, that they had always strived to treat all their children equally. 


I’ve always kept that thought in my heart to accept all of my family that 

I’ve been blessed with, by birth or by marriage, equally as well.


My folks had seen other families that didn’t always do this, and we were all very lucky to have this wonderful tradition.


I may not have always been rich in money, but I’ve always been Very rich in family and friends!


Zam and Jacki finding Happiness with each other was always a real Blessing that made us all more complete and Joyful!


I remember visiting them in the Cayman’s in the last Century, with my teenage son, Louis. We both learned to dive for that trip, and I became certified. 


I also remember another later trip to Key West with Louis, when we took a trip over Key West in their friend Fantasy Dan’s small plane, from Big Pine Key.


Back to the Caymans; It was a Magical experience! I had just recently met my wife to be, and sent her post cards. 


On a dive with Zam, I spotted a dive computer watch amongst the coral on the sea floor, that someone had lost the week before. 


Louis recently reminded me that once, when I had borrowed Jacki’s car to drive around the island, she got a call from their friend the police chief of Cayman Brac, that I had been seen driving on the wrong side of the road. 


They were part of a wonderful community there where everyone knew each other. The Island’s population was around 900!


There were stories of a ghost that haunted the rooms of the hotel we stayed in.  (one of two on the island). We heard the ghost moving around, but never saw it.


Zam, six months earlier, had made friends with Jean Michel Costeau, and had spent time showing him around the local waters. 


Jean Michel had returned for a week during our stay, to document the evolution of sea life around a destroyer that had been recently sunk to create an artificial reef. 


We had some interesting evening conversations with him at the hotel bar, and later spent some time with him while awaiting our flights at the Cayman Brac Airport Terminal.


Zam was a Very Special person in our lives, and I miss him and my sister Jacki.


I know that they are not gone as long as we carry them in our hearts.


Blessings to All,

Daniel