Dr. James Dobson, founder of Colorado Springs-headquartered Focus on the Family, will be remembered as a compassionate soul who had a gift for empathizing with grief-stricken people and walking with anyone going through life’s difficulties.

He was known to shed tears upon hearing of an unknown family’s loss of a child, current Focus President Jim Daly said.

“Now, it is our turn to weep,” Daly wrote on Focus’ website on Thursday, the day the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute announced Dobson had died.

“He was a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a friend to millions of listeners and readers around the world,” Daly said in his online letter. “Dr. Dobson’s presence will be sorely missed, but we rejoice in the knowledge that he is now joyfully in the presence of the God he served.”

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