My beloved sister moved on, to her heavenly home today, as her faithful husband tended at her bedside, just as he has done for many, many years.
She hung on until her 60th wedding anniversary with the Love of Her Life, then peacefully and suddenly headed for Heaven the following day.
If every person she ever helped left one petal on her grave, she would sleep 'nieth a blanket of flowers.....
Her trials are finished; she has endured to the end...... more later.....
NOW IT'S LATER..... I adored my big Sis...what more can be said! She has always been a special soul, a beloved daughter of our Heavenly Father. She protected us, mothered us, inspired us, helped us out of every jam we ever got into.
A perfectionist (it runs in our Dad's family), my only frustration was that she held all of us to her high standards; and, that can get tedious when you are trying to "sluff" your way through a project!
She never saw a situation she couldn't tackle, no matter how daunting. Her careers ( alongside of wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend) were: medical secretary, executive secretary, home construction manager, stained glass artist and art glass department manager, real estate broker, and financial advisor.
Twenty years ago, she survived a near death fall from a second story window while physically helping build her own home she had also designed. She had earlier helped build homes for two of her daughters and a son, along with financing and help to others. Her body healed and she rallied, after that fall, and she later helped build a home for a daughter and then another for a granddaughter.
Ten years later, a severe brain injury, from an accidental fall on a stairway, finally took the wind from her sails and she had to give into help from those who loved her. On top of that list was her beloved husband, who became full time caregiver. She still knew she was a perfectionist, but not in charge of the projects! It was a challenge to give up the reins, when she had been the helper of everyone else all those years.
It was sadness for us when she left...but also joy for us to know that she is able to once again be the "caregiver" to everyone else. Love you to the moon....!
She hung on until her 60th wedding anniversary with the Love of Her Life, then peacefully and suddenly headed for Heaven the following day.
If every person she ever helped left one petal on her grave, she would sleep 'nieth a blanket of flowers.....
Her trials are finished; she has endured to the end...... more later.....
NOW IT'S LATER..... I adored my big Sis...what more can be said! She has always been a special soul, a beloved daughter of our Heavenly Father. She protected us, mothered us, inspired us, helped us out of every jam we ever got into.
A perfectionist (it runs in our Dad's family), my only frustration was that she held all of us to her high standards; and, that can get tedious when you are trying to "sluff" your way through a project!
She never saw a situation she couldn't tackle, no matter how daunting. Her careers ( alongside of wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend) were: medical secretary, executive secretary, home construction manager, stained glass artist and art glass department manager, real estate broker, and financial advisor.
Twenty years ago, she survived a near death fall from a second story window while physically helping build her own home she had also designed. She had earlier helped build homes for two of her daughters and a son, along with financing and help to others. Her body healed and she rallied, after that fall, and she later helped build a home for a daughter and then another for a granddaughter.
Ten years later, a severe brain injury, from an accidental fall on a stairway, finally took the wind from her sails and she had to give into help from those who loved her. On top of that list was her beloved husband, who became full time caregiver. She still knew she was a perfectionist, but not in charge of the projects! It was a challenge to give up the reins, when she had been the helper of everyone else all those years.
It was sadness for us when she left...but also joy for us to know that she is able to once again be the "caregiver" to everyone else. Love you to the moon....!
My beloved sister moved on, to her heavenly home today, as her faithful husband tended at her bedside, just as he has done for many, many years.
She hung on until her 60th wedding anniversary with the Love of Her Life, then peacefully and suddenly headed for Heaven the following day.
If every person she ever helped left one petal on her grave, she would sleep 'nieth a blanket of flowers.....
Her trials are finished; she has endured to the end...... more later.....
NOW IT'S LATER..... I adored my big Sis...what more can be said! She has always been a special soul, a beloved daughter of our Heavenly Father. She protected us, mothered us, inspired us, helped us out of every jam we ever got into.
A perfectionist (it runs in our Dad's family), my only frustration was that she held all of us to her high standards; and, that can get tedious when you are trying to "sluff" your way through a project!
She never saw a situation she couldn't tackle, no matter how daunting. Her careers ( alongside of wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend) were: medical secretary, executive secretary, home construction manager, stained glass artist and art glass department manager, real estate broker, and financial advisor.
Twenty years ago, she survived a near death fall from a second story window while physically helping build her own home she had also designed. She had earlier helped build homes for two of her daughters and a son, along with financing and help to others. Her body healed and she rallied, after that fall, and she later helped build a home for a daughter and then another for a granddaughter.
Ten years later, a severe brain injury, from an accidental fall on a stairway, finally took the wind from her sails and she had to give into help from those who loved her. On top of that list was her beloved husband, who became full time caregiver. She still knew she was a perfectionist, but not in charge of the projects! It was a challenge to give up the reins, when she had been the helper of everyone else all those years.
It was sadness for us when she left...but also joy for us to know that she is able to once again be the "caregiver" to everyone else. Love you to the moon....!
She hung on until her 60th wedding anniversary with the Love of Her Life, then peacefully and suddenly headed for Heaven the following day.
If every person she ever helped left one petal on her grave, she would sleep 'nieth a blanket of flowers.....
Her trials are finished; she has endured to the end...... more later.....
NOW IT'S LATER..... I adored my big Sis...what more can be said! She has always been a special soul, a beloved daughter of our Heavenly Father. She protected us, mothered us, inspired us, helped us out of every jam we ever got into.
A perfectionist (it runs in our Dad's family), my only frustration was that she held all of us to her high standards; and, that can get tedious when you are trying to "sluff" your way through a project!
She never saw a situation she couldn't tackle, no matter how daunting. Her careers ( alongside of wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend) were: medical secretary, executive secretary, home construction manager, stained glass artist and art glass department manager, real estate broker, and financial advisor.
Twenty years ago, she survived a near death fall from a second story window while physically helping build her own home she had also designed. She had earlier helped build homes for two of her daughters and a son, along with financing and help to others. Her body healed and she rallied, after that fall, and she later helped build a home for a daughter and then another for a granddaughter.
Ten years later, a severe brain injury, from an accidental fall on a stairway, finally took the wind from her sails and she had to give into help from those who loved her. On top of that list was her beloved husband, who became full time caregiver. She still knew she was a perfectionist, but not in charge of the projects! It was a challenge to give up the reins, when she had been the helper of everyone else all those years.
It was sadness for us when she left...but also joy for us to know that she is able to once again be the "caregiver" to everyone else. Love you to the moon....!
