Memorial Guestbook

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  • Ted Jones

    May 21st, 2013

    spouse
     
    Ted, I miss you every day but more so today on our anniversary. I wouldn't trade the years we had together. We laughed, argued, stood together against the odds but most of all, we loved with all our hearts. Thank you for helping me create our beautiful daughter. Because of who you were, she knew to choose a good man to love her & make a family with. I love you.

    - Kathie Jones

  • John L Mayer

    May 7th, 2013

    Loving Father
     
    It's been less than 2 months since you passed, but it seems like a lifetime. SO many parts of my life came to a screaming halt the day your passed away. Although the rest of the world continues to carry on as it did while you were here, my life and my perspective of life has changed so much since you have left. I prayed so hard for you to continue to live, and at the end I prayed so hard for God to relieve your earthly pain and take you away. I hope that everything that I said to you during your last days and hours on earth were heard. I meant them all, and couldn't say enough. You were the best Dad a son could have ever asked for. I love you..

    - Tom

  • Mark L. Lewis

    Apr 19th, 2013

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK!
     
    Happy Birthday dear husband. April 22nd, the second birthday that you will be celebrating in heaven. Your name is still mentioned all the time. There isn't a family get together that a story or a special time isn't mentioned about you. I like to hear these stories, sometimes there ones I never heard before. I feel like you right here sometimes and that makes me smile. Both of our children are so much like you. I am blessed to have them and they have taken such good care of me since you left us. I am so proud of them and I know you are to.Our son is a carbon copy of you, I see you in everything he does. It's like I still have you here but in a different way. Nothing is the same though. Every birthday or holiday that arrives, there is always something missing, you. We will never forget you, I promise you this. We have lot's of memories and funny stories about you that live in our hearts every single day. We also have each other, to talk to when one of us is missing you a lot. We help each other because that's what family's do. Your birthday will be filled with happy memories of you this year. And I am hoping that in the beautiful place you are in you find the biggest piece of chocolate cake, your favorite to celebrate your special day. I Love You, sir-ever and ever +more.

    - Jean Marie Lewis

  • Mark L. Lewis

    Mar 28th, 2013

    Happy Easter, Mark
     
    I was thinking about Easter's when we were first married. Remember the Easter when we were so poor that you made me an Easter card. It said Happy Easter Measter. It was so beautiful that I told you I never wanted another store bought Easter card. After that some were made and some were bought, but the one thing that never changed was you always said in each card Happy Easter Measter. I will never forget that saying, not in a million years. Remember the year you decorated the entire kitchen table when I wasn't home. You had chocolate bunnies and eggs and everything you could find to make a Easter display for me.You told me that's the way Easter's were done in your house when you were young. It was so special. I like to think of these things now, it makes me feel like your still here with me. I'm lucky to have these memories to hold on to. I have over 40 years of memories to hold on to now. I also have our two children. They are so much like you.Our son is the carbon copy of you. Our daughter has a lot of your habits, sometimes I laugh because she is so much like you. Just looking at them, brings back loads of memories of when you were here with us. My heart tells me you are still here with me. I think you always will be because I'm not about to forget you or what we had together. So on this Easter Sunday, I will be thinking of Easter Measter cards from the past and beautiful tables filled with Easter chocolates just like you made for me. I Love You, Always, Happy Easter Measter! Mark.

    - Jean Marie Lewis

  • Mark L. Lewis

    Mar 20th, 2013

    Happy 39th Anniversary
     
    Happy Anniversary Mark, March 22nd,1974, the day we got married. It seams like forever ago, but I remember that day like it was yesterday. This is the 2nd anniversary without you. I love you as much today as I did the day we got married, no, I take that back. I love you a lot more. We had a lot of years together. One thing is for sure, there was never a dull moment, was there. We had good times and times that were sad. I could always count on you to get us through the hard times. So many times I wish you were here to talk to me, make things better.I guess I always believed you would always be there. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of you. I look at pictures of us and our family and I'm so grateful for what we had. Some people go through a hole lifetime and never find that just right person, but we did and I have all those memories to hold me together. One thing I learned since you left, time does not heal all wounds, it doesn't even come close. I think time helps me understand and accept the fact that you were sick, but it still hurts just as bad today as it did when you went to heaven on August 24, 2011. Knowing your in a better place and not suffering anymore is what I think of all the time. It was very hard to let you go but for selfish reasons. I never wanted to be without you but I had to let you go so you could be at peace. So on this anniversary, I will remember the story you told every year of how I was late at my own wedding. The frig you filled with chocolate milk and watching the cars get stuck going up the hill on our honeymoon. These things I could never forget and I know you won't either.They were our memories and I hold everyone of them in my heart to keep me close to you. I LOVE YOU with all my heart and I always will. Love, Jean Marie

    - Jean Marie Lewis

  • Mark L. Lewis

    Mar 9th, 2013

    Memories
     
    Tonight while I was busy cooking diner for our daughter I was watching an episode of Reba and at the end of that program she sang a song called so far away . It was so beautiful, I looked at your picture and sang along with her thinking of you . I know your not coming back to me and your waiting for me to come to you, and I can't tell you when that will be. I guess The best thing to tell you is I will be there whenever God say's it's my time.Until that day comes I promise you I will take care of OUR children, the best I can. I miss you every day, and I hope you are happy in God's eternal life. I am getting stronger every single day. I have to, I have children here to look after. Once I know they will be fine than I will be with you, until that day comes please remember how much I love you and want to be with you, but for now, my place is with the two children we brought into this world. I Love you now and always, Jean Marie

    - Jean Marie Lewis

  • Mark L. Lewis

    Dec 27th, 2012

    Christmas Memories
     
    Christmas came and went again without you for the second time. This year I made something special for the kids. I wrote poems about you and all the special things you did with each one of them from the time they were born. Then I put it in a double eight by ten frame with a picture of you and the child it was for. They all liked what I did and I hope they never forget what a great Dad you were to both of them. I miss your voice and the sound of your truck coming down the road after work each day. Making your lunches and having you taste test every thing I made. I took these things for granted every day, I thought it would always be that way and now it's so different. I wondered on christmas day what it was like to be in heaven. I was hoping you were spending that day with your brother. I miss you every day and I always will. We were good together. We even knew what the other one was thinking without saying a word. I guess that's what happens when you are with someone for 40 years. I don't think I will ever stop missing you or thinking about our life together. I see you in both of our children all the time. I don't know what I would of done if I didn't have them. I try every day to be the best mom I can be, that is what is most important to me. Having Hattie to hug every night sure helps to. What a great little dog she is. I clung to her when you first left, she means everything to me.All of your family loves and misses you very much. As for me, I am trying be be the best person I can be, because I want you to be proud of me. Life is not something I take for granted any more. Every day is a gift from God, I found this out the hard way, the day you went to heaven. Love you sir-ever and ever+more. Jean Marie

    - Jean Marie Lewis

  • Mark L. Lewis

    Nov 22nd, 2012

    Loved Thanksgiving Day
     
    Happy Thanksgiving Day in heaven, Mark. This is the second Thanksgiving we will be without you. It will never be the way it used to be and I miss those days so much. Cooking isn't fun anymore without you taste testing everything. I cried when I made your favorite stuffing. You are in my heart today as you are every day. Remember the year we took the kids to the Macy's parade? What a fun time that was. I remember the year you were eating the stuffing and said it needs to be a little crunchier on top. I told you it would be if you let me put it in the oven to cook it. Everyday I wish you could come back, even if it was only for one big hug. Thanksgiving and every holiday will never be as happy as they used to be. I miss you every single day and I know in my heart someday we will share all the holidays again just like we used to, together. Happy Thanksgiving Day sweet husband. I love and miss you every single day of my life.

    - Jean Marie Lewis

  • Phyllis Ann Lavigueur

    Oct 23rd, 2012

    mother-in-law
     
    Niagara Hospice made it possible for my husband to continue his education during his mother's final days. In her honor at our wedding, en lieu of a wedding favor, we made a donation to Niagara Hospice, on behalf of our wedding guests. Every day I wish I got to meet my mother-in-law, and she is missed by her son and so many others. We appreciate all the efforts of Niagara Hospice, and are very grateful for the dedication to the patients.

    - Jill Adamec

  • Debbie Failing

    Oct 20th, 2012

    Wife
     
    For Deb: Missing you Always You never said I'm leaving, You never said goodbye You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why A million times I needed you, A million times I cried If love alone could have saved you, You never would have died In life I loved you dearly, In death I love you still In my heart I hold a place, That only you can fill It broke my heart to lose you, But you didn't go alone As part of me went with you, The day God took you! Deb, I will love you Always!

    - Butch Failing