Marcia Berg Relation to Deceased: daughter The last several years were rough ones for you, and now, at last, I hope and pray that you’re back to your old self, smiling and happy, with Dad, your mother, Barbara Kuhn, Alta, Aunt Margaret, and all those you loved who went there before you. There are so many good memories, and you taught me so much. What I will remember most fondly are the Holiday gatherings… I remember you and Aunt Alice spending hours cleaning up and washing dishes, cheerfully, while all the kids played after dinner. And the family vacation trips to Florida and at the log cabin at Keuka lake… We were all so happy there, but you still had to do the work: cooking, making beds, cleaning up after meals. And that one daring ride you took down a long hill with us 4 (little) kids on a toboggan is something I will never forget. I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one, I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
Joan Sullivan Relation to Deceased: daughter Our outlook on life is shaped by all of the people that come and go in our lives, parents being the first influence over us. I never felt that we were given “lessons on how to live” while growing up, since children don’t see things that way. A lesson from both of our parents that has been in my mind for the past 10 years is this: Dad showed us that we can be strong, face what comes and deal with it. Mom showed us that we need to be strong in order to face what comes our way in life.
Joan Sullivan Relation to Deceased: daughter It was a rare occurance when Mom did not have a project that she was working on. It was a sewing project, or quilting or knitting, maybe trying her hand at painting. She could sew up anything from blouses & dresses for us, even clothes for Dad. Don’t forget the “picnic trousers”. He wore those for years and years, even to a band concert that he was in at the Sodus Light House. As we look back over time We find ourselves wondering ….. Did we remember to thank you enough For all you have done for us? For all the times you were by our sides To help and support us ….. To celebrate our successes To understand our problems And accept our defeats? Or for teaching us by your example, The value of hard work, good judgement, Courage and integrity? We wonder if we ever thanked you For the sacrifices you made. To let us have the very best? And for the simple things Like laughter, smiles and times we shared? If we have forgotten to show our Gratitude enough for all the things you did, We’re thanking you now. And we are hoping you knew all along, How much you meant to us.
Deborah Shue Relation to Deceased: Daughter I could always count on mom to provide lunch whenever I wanted. All I had to do was just show up and say what’s for lunch. It was also expected that after our Wednesday after work bowling, with dad, Mom would make supper for us. I’ll also remember our cruises to the Caribbean and Alaska. Mom told me she and dad were going and I invited me and Wayne to go. Such fun.
Deborah Shue Relation to Deceased: Daughter Being the “Baby” of the family did have it’s advantages. I had mom all to myself after the other three went to school. I’ll always remember lunch in the Sibley Tower building when I got to take the train menu home with me. I also had the unfare adavantage of not getting in trouble when I was at fault as well because the older child should have set the example.
Christina L Beeley Relation to Deceased: Granddaughter In high school, before I could drive, Grandma volunteered to drive to Hilton and pick me up for doctors appointments on a regular basis. The idea was to go to the appointment and then right back to school. Grandma always had a sweet tooth though and we would wind up at Kelly’s fruit farm for donuts and cider in the fall on a regular basis. Chinese Checkers was always a hit at Grandma’s house during family gatherings. In fact, not a gathering went buy without pulling out the metal board with its drawers full of marbles. We haven’t played that game in a long, long time. I’m sure Grandma is playing up in heaven right now. I think what most of us will remember forever is Grandma talking about cruises. She and Grandpa used to love cruising down rivers and over the open seas. Was it the wind at their faces, the Captain’s dinner and all you can eat buffets, or the adventure of vacationing in new places? Even in sickness, Grandma could talk about traveling. The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips
Christina L Beeley Relation to Deceased: Granddaughter I keep thinking of the little things. I’m teaching today and was planning to teach a brief grammar warm up to my freshmen. Grandma used to always boast about her ability to write and use correct grammar. Funny though, she never wanted to grade my students’ papers. I hope she is not correcting grammar from heaven! She would be pretty disapointed. The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips
Christina L Beeley Relation to Deceased: Granddaughter Canned Cherries! I will always remember eating canned cherries at Grandma’s house. No one can make a canned cherry and take the pits out of them like Grandma could. The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips
Ann Genova Anderson Safely Home I am home in Heaven dear ones: Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty in this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over, every restless tossing passed I am now at peace forever, safely home in Heaven at last. Then you must not grieve so sorely, for I love you dearly still; try to look beyond earth shadows, Pray to trust our Father’s will There is work still waiting for you, so you must not idly stand: do it now, while life remaineth you shall rest in Jesus’ land When that work is all completed, He will gently call you Home; oh the rapture of that meeting, oh the joy to see you come!
Marcia Berg Relation to Deceased: daughter The last several years were rough ones for you, and now, at last, I hope and pray that you’re back to your old self, smiling and happy, with Dad, your mother, Barbara Kuhn, Alta, Aunt Margaret, and all those you loved who went there before you. There are so many good memories, and you taught me so much. What I will remember most fondly are the Holiday gatherings… I remember you and Aunt Alice spending hours cleaning up and washing dishes, cheerfully, while all the kids played after dinner. And the family vacation trips to Florida and at the log cabin at Keuka lake… We were all so happy there, but you still had to do the work: cooking, making beds, cleaning up after meals. And that one daring ride you took down a long hill with us 4 (little) kids on a toboggan is something I will never forget. I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one, I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
Joan Sullivan Relation to Deceased: daughter Our outlook on life is shaped by all of the people that come and go in our lives, parents being the first influence over us. I never felt that we were given “lessons on how to live” while growing up, since children don’t see things that way. A lesson from both of our parents that has been in my mind for the past 10 years is this: Dad showed us that we can be strong, face what comes and deal with it. Mom showed us that we need to be strong in order to face what comes our way in life.
Joan Sullivan Relation to Deceased: daughter It was a rare occurance when Mom did not have a project that she was working on. It was a sewing project, or quilting or knitting, maybe trying her hand at painting. She could sew up anything from blouses & dresses for us, even clothes for Dad. Don’t forget the “picnic trousers”. He wore those for years and years, even to a band concert that he was in at the Sodus Light House. As we look back over time We find ourselves wondering ….. Did we remember to thank you enough For all you have done for us? For all the times you were by our sides To help and support us ….. To celebrate our successes To understand our problems And accept our defeats? Or for teaching us by your example, The value of hard work, good judgement, Courage and integrity? We wonder if we ever thanked you For the sacrifices you made. To let us have the very best? And for the simple things Like laughter, smiles and times we shared? If we have forgotten to show our Gratitude enough for all the things you did, We’re thanking you now. And we are hoping you knew all along, How much you meant to us.
Deborah Shue Relation to Deceased: Daughter I could always count on mom to provide lunch whenever I wanted. All I had to do was just show up and say what’s for lunch. It was also expected that after our Wednesday after work bowling, with dad, Mom would make supper for us. I’ll also remember our cruises to the Caribbean and Alaska. Mom told me she and dad were going and I invited me and Wayne to go. Such fun.
Deborah Shue Relation to Deceased: Daughter Being the “Baby” of the family did have it’s advantages. I had mom all to myself after the other three went to school. I’ll always remember lunch in the Sibley Tower building when I got to take the train menu home with me. I also had the unfare adavantage of not getting in trouble when I was at fault as well because the older child should have set the example.
Christina L Beeley Relation to Deceased: Granddaughter In high school, before I could drive, Grandma volunteered to drive to Hilton and pick me up for doctors appointments on a regular basis. The idea was to go to the appointment and then right back to school. Grandma always had a sweet tooth though and we would wind up at Kelly’s fruit farm for donuts and cider in the fall on a regular basis. Chinese Checkers was always a hit at Grandma’s house during family gatherings. In fact, not a gathering went buy without pulling out the metal board with its drawers full of marbles. We haven’t played that game in a long, long time. I’m sure Grandma is playing up in heaven right now. I think what most of us will remember forever is Grandma talking about cruises. She and Grandpa used to love cruising down rivers and over the open seas. Was it the wind at their faces, the Captain’s dinner and all you can eat buffets, or the adventure of vacationing in new places? Even in sickness, Grandma could talk about traveling. The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips
Christina L Beeley Relation to Deceased: Granddaughter I keep thinking of the little things. I’m teaching today and was planning to teach a brief grammar warm up to my freshmen. Grandma used to always boast about her ability to write and use correct grammar. Funny though, she never wanted to grade my students’ papers. I hope she is not correcting grammar from heaven! She would be pretty disapointed. The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips
Christina L Beeley Relation to Deceased: Granddaughter Canned Cherries! I will always remember eating canned cherries at Grandma’s house. No one can make a canned cherry and take the pits out of them like Grandma could. The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips
Ann Genova Anderson Safely Home I am home in Heaven dear ones: Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty in this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over, every restless tossing passed I am now at peace forever, safely home in Heaven at last. Then you must not grieve so sorely, for I love you dearly still; try to look beyond earth shadows, Pray to trust our Father’s will There is work still waiting for you, so you must not idly stand: do it now, while life remaineth you shall rest in Jesus’ land When that work is all completed, He will gently call you Home; oh the rapture of that meeting, oh the joy to see you come!