Missing My Friend....

[Janet]

Marilyn...I'm am so sorry for your loss. She sounds so wonderful and I'm sure she'll be missed by many.

[Gina]

Marilyn what a touching and beautiful post. May your friend rest in peace, she sounds like she was an extraordinary woman and she is at peace. Her memories will always stay with you.

[Blueyes]

I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend. Good friends like that don't come along very often, so you have been truly blessed to have her...and I'm sure you were just as much of a blessing to her. You have my deepest sympathy.

[Marilyn]

Thank you all for your kind thoughts. We went to her visitation last night and are going to the funeral this morning. Her daughters had typed out and framed some of her favorite scriptures and quotes. The one that really struck me was "Only the shell is left, the nut has gone." This is sooo Becky. She tried to make light of any situation affecting her to help people to feel better. She's having a closed casket and not at the church building. She doesn't want us to go to worship and remember her funeral there, and the closed casket is so we will remember her as she lived. Also, she said her mouth would be closed and we had never seen her with her mouth closed. She had a lot of spunk. She's left quite a legacy.

Also, there weren't a lot of flowers there. She made it clear that she didn't want a lot of flowers. The funds should anyone wish to donate should go to the church. Also, her funeral is here, and her burial in the Panhanle. She said they couldn't transport all those flowers there, it would be too much trouble for everyone to deal with them. Always thinking of others. On her casket rather than a large floral spray was a long stemmed yellow rose, her open Bible, her glasses, handkerchief and such.

[DianaB]

Marilyn, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss of a special friend. It sounds like she was someone very special, not only to you but to many others as well. She certainly showed Christ's love to others and now she is reaping the rewards in heaven for all that she did. I really like the idea of her Bible being open with a rose on her casket. It truly shows that her relationship with Christ was very important to her. I pray that your memories bring you great joy and not sorrow as you remember her. We could all learn to be more like her.