We are sorry for your loss. I will always remember Ethel as a happy and industrious lady despite the hardship she faced in much of her life. She is an inspiration for us all. You are all in our thoughts. May happy memories comfort you in this time of sorrow. Love, Heather, Scott, Juliet & Adriana

Safely Home by Unknown 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. Did you wonder I so calmly Trod the valley of the shade? Oh! but Jesus' arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely, For I love you dearly still; Try to look beyond earth's 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!

She is gone You can shed tears that she is gone Or you can smile because she has lived You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left Your heart can be empty because you can't see her Or you can be full of the love that you shared You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday You can remember her and only that she is gone Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on. David Harkins (1959 - ) Note: read at the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother in 2002.

He has achieved success He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much: who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled the niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it; whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had. Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction. Bessie A Stanley, American poet

When I must leave you For a little while, Please do not grieve And shed wild tears And hug your sorrow to you Through the years, But start out bravely With a smile. And for my sake And in my name, Live on and do All the things the same. Feed not your loneliness On empty days, But fill each waking hour In useful ways. Reach out your hand in comfort And in cheer, And I, in turn, will comfort you And hold you near. And never, never Be afraid to die, For I am waiting for you In the sky. Helen Steiner Rice

Grandma was always cutting out things in the news paper. Here is one she saved from March 25, 2004 by Jeanne Phillips. Dear Sabra: You inherited a treasure. I can only imagine the changes that occurred during your great-grandmother's lifetime. When my own dear grandmother, Rose Phillips, died at the age of 103 in October 2002, our family realized that over the span of her lifetime she had seen the rise of the automobile, the birth of commercial air travel, Prohibition, women's suffrage, the Roaring '20s, the Great Depression, two world wars, the discovery of penicillin, man on the moon, the invention of the microwave oven, the fax machine, the computer, the Internet, the cell phone and the birth control pill. Oh, if only she had kept a diary!

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.

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