I have been reading all of your posts.  I have not forgotten about you.  I am just too sleepy and didn't sleep much at all last night.  I can't think of the words that I want to express to you all.

 

Love,

 

Jennifer

 

The viewing was today at 5 pm.  Our beautician Edith Sheffield fixed her hair.  It was in curls not straight like the picture I posted earlier---the straight hair momma like I knew best.  It just didn't look like my momma.

 

My older brother bought her a suit from Cato's.  The jacket was white.  and she had a red blouse.  Danny bought her clip on earrings, a cross necklace,  and it looked like three pearl bracelets.  I couldn't really tell about that.  That makeup they put on the face just didn't make my momma's face look like her own--it looked fake.

 

Danny, did buy her a stuff dog to be put in the coffin with her---symbolizing Lilly at home.  I was very proud of that.

 

All in all she looked beautiful----the white coat suit means pureness to me and the red blouse represents to me the blood Jesus shed for our sins.-----Plus her favorite color was red.

 

Momday, eating is at Zebulon Baptist Church at 12:30 pm est----then we have to be back at Stoke and Southerland Funeral home at 2 pm for the funeral.  I thought it was going to be at our church, but I was wrong where the funeral was going to be held.

 

 

Jennifer, my deepest sympathy for your loss.Patsy will be missed by everyone in this group.

But she's with the Lord now.

Praying for you and your family.

 

God bless you, Jennifer,

 

love,

 

eelya

:(.My prayers go out to you and yours Jennifer and your family..Hugsssss Ali

GBU.

Jennifer  My heart   aches for you and your family. I lost My late wife Connie to cancer in 2006. Hospice was a greatr help for me.

 

My prayer is that Jesus comfort you innyour time of sorrow.

 

I can tell tell you Jesus is faithful is with you at this very time.

 

With Love and heartfelt prayers,

 Rick

She was buried at Zebulon Baptist Church on the Cochran Highway.

When she got the job at the nursing home, the only complaint she had was about her back hurting or the stupid way they had to do things or things they had to do in the laundry room that one person had no time to do along with seeing about washing and drying clothes and getting the clean clothes and linen to the right place.  She always said that she enjoyed her job and believe me when she brought the clothes to the patient's room, the people who would talk about Jesus, she would talk with them about Jesus, while she was putting the patient's clothes where they went.

I guess when she got cancer and didn't know it, she tired much more quickly.  She knew something was wrong, but didn't think it was anything she had to go to the doctor with.  She and I thought it was all the stess getting to her,  but it wasn't.

Danny picked out the clothes.  A white jacket---meant pureness or washed white as snow to me,  a red dress---meant where Jesus's blood washed her sins away---well  she  loved red anyway.  Danny also bought her clip on earrings---which mom never wore earrings, a bracelet---looked like white pearls and maybe three bracelets which mom never wore bracelets, a cross necklace---she did wear a necklace once in a while especially the one I got her with the birthstones of us three kids---she was proud of that one---I was proud of the cross necklace that Danny got her, and he got her a stuff dog---he said that she had well mom and I had this dog at the house named Lilly and she loved Lilly and missed Lilly while she was at the nursing home---that stuffed dog represented Lilly, Bucky, and Dolly to me.  She always wanted a red car---I should have went out and bought her a toy red car like the hotwheels car about two inches long, but I thought of it of the last minute---too late then.

Our friend, Edith Sheffield, the beautician, did her hair in curls which I never like curls.  While I was at the funeral home, I heard that Edith had cancer too.  I was use to mom's hair being straight most of the time---it just didn't look like momma and the make up they put on her just didn't match her skin tone but in that situation, I understand they had to do what they had to do to cover up flaws in her skin that death might would have caused.

As you said she is with Jesus now and I am very glad.  I miss her company tremendously---now I have to sprout my wings and go different ways and do different things---I am still going to live at this house---thank God---I would have nowhere else to go with having a dog also---I couldn't afford it.  I always told other people that I would never leave my mom hanging with utility bills.  I knew I couldn't move out to myself and make it financially and I knew she could not make it financially by herself.  Believe me I enjoyed paying the utility bills. I paid everyone but the telephone----momma made a lot of phone calls to her mom and it sort of made the bill big---so I told mom she was going to pay the phone bill---I couldn't manage one that big anyway.  Now I do have more freedom and space now which I didn't have too much of when she was here---the biggest complaint she stayed hot and she kept the a/c or the ceiling fan on freezing me to death during the winter.

Believe me, I loved my mom.  I wanted to spend more time with her outside of the house---she was a homebody.

I tell you she left her mark in one of the christian msn groups especially---that group went back and put all the posts that she put in all in one new discussion.  And it was a lot.  By what all the people said, she will be missed in most of her christian groups that she was in.

To get by most times, I have to imagine her doing another mission for God---going on another journey---or doing what she always wanted to do on Earth---sing or have a business job with greath health insurance and drug insurance which she don't need the insurance where she is at now.

Now for me, I would like to write, paint, draw, sing---mostly religious things and go to different places to see the beauty of the earth---all in the great land of the USA---maybe be a landscaper.  I like religious things a lot.  I would love to go see the dolphins.  I love flowers.

Sorry for being so long in this post---my head is full of this stuff.

Love,

Jennifer