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Thursday, June 7, 2007
June 7, 1941
Today my grandparents would have been married 66 years. We lost Grandma March 31st of this year. Grandpa lived 9 weeks to the hour without her. My dear, sweet Grandpa passed quietly last Saturday, June 2 at 8:30 pm. What a reunion he must have had with his Sweetheart!!!
My Grandpa was 20 when he and Grandma married. He was a mechanic by trade. During his time in the Navy, he worked on airplanes. After World War II, he worked on cars. As a child, I remember Grandpa wearing these overalls for working on cars and his hands would be black from grease. He was a good and trustworthy mechanic. He knew about engines like nobodies business. He and my husband would talk about the old cars for hours. The time and attention, however, that Grandpa poured into things mechanical- he loved talking about cars and planes and engines - paled in comparison to his desire for the Lord and the things of God.
He became a Christian in the forties and answered the call to the ministry in the early fifties. He helped start churches in Walsenburg, Co and Jamestown, NY. Since 1980, he has been pastoring a small church in NM. Grandpa would spend every weekday morning at the church for counseling. The doors of the church were open to whomever needed his attention. Some days people would come by, others were quiet. Grandpa always had good conversations with the Lord. His years of Bible study alone are riches that he is truly reaping right now. This is the inheritance that is worth more than any estate he could have gathered during his time on earth.
Grandpa was certainly a spiritual leader and mentor. I am thankful for the heritage that they both have given me and my children.
The church will seem so empty and bare without my dear Grandpa sitting at his desk or standing at the pulpit. The Bible says that God's word will go forth and accomplish what it is intended to, so that I know my Grandpa's teachings and life example will go on in those he shepherded.
Grandma & Grandpa at Christmas 2006
Are they not the cutest ever?!?!
Grandpa and his kids during the time we said goodbye to Grandma.
Missing Grandma
Does this not break your heart?
He was missing his Sweetheart terribly!
I love my grandparents dearly. Though I will miss them, I am thankful for being born into this family. I am thankful that my grandparents accepted me and loved me, though I am not easy to love. I appreciate their prayers for me and my family - for their care and concern - for their time. The stone that marks their bodies home may be a stopping place for me in the future, but I know and have hope that they are rejoicing with the Saviour. They are alive in Jesus Christ our Lord. I know that the Lord welcomed them with "Well done, good and faithful servant."
My mom, sister and I had gotten a call from my other sister at the hospital with Grandpa around 1 in the afternoon telling us to get there right away. Grandpa wasn't doing well at all. I made the five minute trip in two. I needed to read a passage to him. I was so thankful that earlier I was able to hang out with Grandpa and read to him from the Bible. I read his favorite Psalms to him. This certain scripture, however, had come to me on three different occasions; I needed to read it to him. So we rushed and ran. In the hurry of things, I grabbed his last Bible and told him, "Grandpa, I need to read to you from the Bible." It was hectic and I was scared that Grandpa would slip into a deep sleep and not hear me. With a shaky voice, I read:
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2
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