Memories
| Cindy Criswell Bennett |
Thinking of you |
August 25, 2013 |
Today I started scanning old photos and important papers that I have held dear in my hope chest - remember how we all wanted hope chests when we were teens? Not knowing anything about acid-free paper, my photos are fading away so I thought I better save the ones I can.
One of the first things I came across was the paper that was handed out to us at your memorial service in Corvallis, and neatly tucked inside was your Celebration of Life pictorial. I have ended up quite a mess of tears, and was surprised at how raw my emotions are. All the old memories came flooding back of being teens and growing up in Toledo, where life was safe and most everyone knew us, and those that didn't know us kept an eye out for us anyway. That's just the way it was.....people cared for each other and watched out for other people's kids. We grew up in the perfect time of life, unlike what teens have to face these days.
I can't believe that I came across these things reminding me of you just one day before your passing, August 26, 2007. It's already been six years. Where has the time gone. It's gone fast, yet, in thinking of you, it's been forever. Because I do not believe in coincidence, I will think on your message of life and what you stood for, for therein is a message for me.
Last time I wrote here, shortly after your passing, I talked about redeeming the time and using it wisely to spend with those you care about, and we have done that. There are group of our old girlfriends from Toledo that I get together with for lunch or dinner and lots of good conversation. We talk about current stuff in our lives, but also old times. I even took our old annuals so we could laugh at our ridiculous hairdos and outfits, when we thought we looked so cool!!
I am thankful that this website was listed on your memorial paper and that it is still here, and that it led me here to read the wonderful words written about and to you. I know that I will see you again some day and for that I am thankful. I miss you still.
Love,
Cindy
| Karmyn Fummerton |
I Miss You |
June 17, 2013 |
Hey mom, we all miss you alot. Im so sad that it was your time to leave us but i just want u to know that we all love you and miss you ummmmm if u were here u would be so proud of me and how far ive gotten in life we would talk bout boys and my crushes and past boyfriends and more we all miss you just wanted to get that out there i miss/love u lots.
~karmyn
Hey Sis,
It is hard to believe 2 years have come and gone since you were so unexpectably taken from our lives. Not a day has gone by that I have not talked with you and thought about you. In this last year, I have heard people say to others, that have lost a loved one, that eventually you must forget and get on with your life. Those that say such asinine things have obviously never lost someone they loved. I agree that life does go on, but the grieving will continue for a lifetime and beyond. There is really not much more for me to say except I miss you so, so very much, but you and I will continue to have our nightly chats! I love you Connie
August 26, 2009
Nineteen thousand one hundred and fourteen days -vs- Five Hundred sixty four days.......How does one measure the days between life and death? For me it is just a total of 19,678 days that you have reached out and touched so many lives. We continue to love and miss you on a daily basis, but does the pain and sorrow ever go away?? No. The pain just gets a little less raw. There are times when I think I have "rounded the corner" and then there is that brick wall standing in my way and I know that I am still not ready to move on without you. If and when that wall were to crumble and fall away... I will never have to go on without you, for I know that you will always be my wall of strength and you will continue to keep me strong.
I miss and love you so very much
Steph
March 13,2009
My Dearling daughter, a year has gone by and we continue to miss you more and more as each day goes by. We often ask ourselves if you really knew how very much we loved you and how very proud we were of you?
Your father and I talk of you often and we both miss you so very much. We laugh at all the good times we had over the years and even the bad ( they don't really seem that bad now as we look back now, well that is some of them).
Every time we go to the ranch which is every week we talk about the close call you had that evening coming home and you ended up in the river. I will never forget seeing you walking up the road and wondering why were you walking. We alway thank the good Lord for your being able to get out of the car that evening and so thankful that Tammy did not come home with you that night. Things at the ranch are not the same during the holidays without you. We know how much you loved the ranch even if you were the one that made the loudest noise when we moved out there. We hope to be doing some of the things that you wanted done at the ranch. I am sure that we will be getting some of those taps on the shoulders when we don't do things the way you wanted, but at least we will make some of the impoverments that you wanted the way you wanted them.
Your husband is doing a wonderful job of bringing up your two children you would be very proud of him, but we know you are watching from above and that you give him that little tap on the shoulder when he forgets something or when he doesn't do things just the way you would have. I know about that tap as I get one every once in awhile when I do something that you always gave me a bad time for doing. Your dad gets that tap everytime he forget to clean out the sink drainer.
We miss you so very much and we know that some day we will all be together.
Love Mother & Dad
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