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- About Me:
- 62 years old, live in Lake Havasu, AZ, work as a letter carrier for the post office. Raised 6 kids while in Nebraska. Spend 30 years in Nebraska, and 19 years in Idaho, where I grew up. Four years in the Navy, 65 to 69. Member of the American Legion, and the VFW. Love fishing and swimming, walks along the lake in the cool evening breeze.
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- Lost my mother last month 3-20-08. A strong wonderful mother to my two older sisters and myself. She was the fourth of six kids, two sisters and four brothers. Grew up in Oregon on a dry land farm and then moved to Idaho after high school and on to business school in Nampa Idaho. Worked as a book keeper for about 30 years and retired in 1986. She was the caregiver of the family and was always there when some one needed anthing. Loved all her grandkids and great grandkids. Never missed Lawence Welk show, and never missed it on Saturday night. Never new her to say a harsh word about anyone. Always found good in everyone. She had been battling through a broken hip recovery since Aug. 07 and was doing good until she got sick at a rehab home and ended up with double pneumonia, in the hospital for 34 days on ventlator-feeding tube, but managed to battle out of that and back to a rehab home where she was 5 days from going home, when she caught the flu and had to go back to the hospital. Went to ICU for kidney failure and then coded when she got sick and asperated some into her lungs. I went up when my sisters called and said she was in ICU again. Got to talke to her before she was on the vent again, and within two and a half days she lost her battle due to the flu and the organ failures. Hughe shock to us all. She was a strong vibrant woman at 85 and stilled lived on her own, with most of the family around her all the time. I being the only child that lived so far from her in Idaho. But she was very happy to see me when I got up there, and I her before her untimely death. Very heavy heart since then and try to stay positive. I did pray the day before her death that "IF" it was her time to please take her fast and my prayer was answered. Much stress with all that and also just before I got the call from my sisters, my wife of 23 years told me she wanted a divorce, so that added stress to it all has me pretty much at my witts end.
March 20th, 2008
How I feel about my mother and what she experienced when she went to her waiting family in Heaven!
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength and I watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud, just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone.” Gone where? Gone from my sight--- that is all.
She is just as large in the mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of Living freight to the place of destination.
Her diminished size is in “Me”, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says
“There! She’s gone”, there are other Eyes watching her coming, and other Voices ready to take up the glad shout, “Here She Comes! Welcome Home!”
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I Love You Momma!
Glen Robert McKnight, Son of, Betty Freda McKnight/Dyas!
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My Aunt
Well here I go again! Received a call from my sister last Thursday May 1st, that my aunt Leila had died, in Weiser, Idaho. She was 98 years old. She went as quick as my mother did in March. Two days and she was gone! She was my mothers sister in law. Uncle Jack had died about 10 years ago or so, not sure. That's bad but that is my memory, now days! Aunt Leila was much like my mother, in that she never said a harsh word about anyone and was the care giver in her family circle. She work all her li… Continue
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that OZ never did give nothing to The Tin Man, that he didn't already have.......!!!
Blessings,
Padre+
I was very moved by your words of description of your mothers final days; the courage and bravery she put forth in her struggle with the flu and her trips to and from the various medical facilities.
I would like to hear more about her life in Oregon & Idaho if you feel like sharing.
blessings.
lucretia
Are you doing o.k. Just letting you know I was thinking about you! I will keep you in my heart and prayers...
Denise
A mother who never grows old;
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He moulded her heart of pure gold;
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks fair roses you see;
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.
Your prayer for her easy passage showed great strength and courage. Never beat yourself up over that, sometimes our loved ones hang on until it we can let them go. You gave her peace and God bless you for that.
Your wife could not have picked a worse time to ask for a divorce, I am so sorry for that. I hope you have plenty of loving family and friends around you to help you through both your losses. If you are ever in need of an extra friend, I'm only a message away!
Take care and God bless
Gail
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