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for Barbara Sparano
Alison
October 5, 2023
Mom, I can't believe it's been so long since we've hugged, talked, laughed or watched our shows together. The pain of missing you is just as hard today as it was the day you left to be with the Lord (I've just gotten better at hiding my crying). I talk to you all the time. All of the family vacations or milestones that the boys make, I think of how you would have been right there with us. Everything is hard without you. And you know what day is the hardest for me? My birthday. I don't think I've gotten through one without crying since you left. My boys help to ease the pain, but the pain is still there. It just always is. I'm seeing Walt Willy in a couple of weeks, can you believe it??? I wish you were going with me, boy would he get an earful from BOTH of us! I talk about you all of the time. I'm always telling the boys stories about you. They will ALWAYS know you. Ma, when I get into heaven, you better hold onto something tight because I'll be coming at you hard for a hug to make up for all of the hugs we missed out on. I might not let go, just a head's up! Lord, if You will allow, please give my mom a hug from me? And please let her know how much I still miss her. Every. Single. Day.
JOYCE PORTER
September 3, 2023
I THINK OF BARBARA EVERYDAY ......SHE WAS MY VERY BEST FRIEND ,,, TILL THE VERY END .... WE ALSO WORKED TOGETHER ... HER MEMORY WILL ALWAYS BE A BLESSING ...
Joycie Porter
May 7, 2011
May 7 2011, Barbara, I think of you everyday....You will always be my best friend. Happy Mother's Day in heaven to my forever friend....I miss you more than words can say. Love to my angel....Forever loving you....Joycie Porter.
Tracey
May 6, 2011
Mom, today I made a memorial donation in your honor to the Mill Neck Foundation to honor you for Mother's Day. Since you so enjoyed the Spring 2009 Mill Neck Manor Designer Showcase, I know you'd be pleased. I think about it each time I go to the main office, like this morning when I attended a meeting in the beautiful Manor House. Happy Mother's Day in Heaven with our awesome Heavenly Father. I know Jesus had a mansion prepared for you that was more beautiful than can be imagined. I love & miss you so much,
Tracey
Tracey Urzi
February 24, 2011
"All things bright & beautiful, All creatures great & small, All things wise & wonderful, The Lord God made them all." Wow, thank You, LORD, for a quote from my Mom's favorite book in Our Daily Bread on her birthday! Father God, please tell Mom I love & miss her as she celebrates what would have been her 70th birthday with You in Your Glory. XOXOXOXOX
February 23, 2010
Happy Birthday Mom...I miss you more and more each day.
I love you....
Tracey Urzi
February 23, 2010
Dear Mom,
Happy Birthday in Heaven! I love and miss you very much.
Love always,
Tracey
Tracey Sparano Urzi
December 31, 2009
Hey, Mom, tonight I'll be hitting a frying pan with a wooden spoon at the New Year remembering you! I love and miss you!
Tracey
Alison Pearl
September 5, 2009
My letter to Mom on the anniversary of her death:
Mom, you went to be with the Lord one year ago today. I am SOOOOOOOOO comforted to know that you are in a place of peace, love and pure joy, but at the same time, I feel like my heart has been ripped out because you are not here with us. I miss you so so much. Everywhere I go I think "I was here with mom", things I do with the kids I think "mom would have been here with me" or "mom would have LOVED to see this!" This summer was more difficult for me than I ever could have imagined, because every time I sat in the yard to watch the kids play I would look at the empty chair next to me and cry. You would have been there with me and you would have loved watching the kids play and grow up.
I look at my hands and I see yours. I I touch the face of one of my kids and see how you used to do the same. I smell your perfume in stores....I think I see you walking by when I'm in a crowd. I see leopard print on ANYTHING and laugh that you would have LOVED it.
I miss your "evil laugh". I miss you telling me in tremendous detail about the latest episode of "Dexter" or about the book you're reading. I miss sitting on the couch with you eating something with chocolate in it while we complain about the storyline on All My Children....and then calling you on the phone 5 minutes later to talk about it more! Most of all, I miss venting to you when I'm stressed. I miss your sense of humor.....like the time my tonsils were huge and I asked to see yours for comparision. You let me freak out for quite a while before you told me you didn't HAVE tonsils!
I will love you forever.
"Remember me"....."I'll Be Seeing You"
I love you too mom,
Al
Tracey Urzi
September 5, 2009
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:1-3
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” John 11:25-26
“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ... Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Cor 5:1-8
“But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thess 4:13-18
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Rev. 21:3-4
Mom, Happy 1 Year Anniversary in Heaven. I know you are full of joy, always in the presence of our loving Lord, where there is no sorrow, no illness, no pain, no sin, & no more death but everlasting life. I miss you so very much but I am so grateful to the Lord for giving me the assurance of knowing that I will see you again in Glory! xoxoxox! I love you more than words can express!
Joycie Porter
September 4, 2009
Barbara was my best friend for more than 35 years.We shared all of the good things and bad things that life brings to you.We laughed and cried together for all those years.We also worked at our job together for all those years ....so even if on vacation we called each other to see how things were going.I am grateful that I went to visit Barbara in the hospital on the day she died.....She was having trouble breathing but I did not know it was the last time I would see her...As I left her room that day we both said "I love you" to each other....I am grateful to have that memory with me.Barbara and her family and mine spent many happy times together in all those years.Even with her illness she was brave and tried not to complain.When I visited her in the hospital she always had hope.From the day I met her she was always so nice and kind and ready to help.I just know she is an angel....with wings and a halo.She loved Alison and Tracey with all her heart.Both her son-in-laws Danny and Ed added so much happiness...But those three Grandsons were the love of her life and kept her going as long as she could.My husband Bobby and my daughter Breena have wonderful memories of our friendship and we will never forget her.A good soul who was happy with just the simple things in life.Barbara, I will miss you forever...Joycie and Bobby Porter....Syosset, New York
Laurie Brooks
September 3, 2009
You will always be remembered in our hearts and our memories.
Love the Brooks Family
September 2, 2009
Mom, I just miss you so much.......
Tracey Urzi
February 23, 2009
Today, Feb 23rd, is my mom's birthday. She would have been 68 years old.
Happy Birthday in Heaven, Mom! I love you & I miss you very much.
xoxoxox,
Tracey
Marlene Payne
January 28, 2009
Mrs. Sparano was like an extra mother to me growing up. She welcomed me at her house with open arms..many times driving me home or picking me up to hang out with Alison because my parents both worked full time & weren't home to take me. I can literally still hear her voice & hear her laughter. She had a wonderful smile & I was always so impressed at how she was always so put together--she always looked beautiful with her hair and nails just perfect. I ate many a meal there too--yummy homemade pasta sauce is what I remember!!! I was recently flipping thru an old recipe book of mine & in it was a handwritten note from her with her recipe for Chinese Chicken Casserole that she sent me years ago. She always welcomed us at her block parties and was just simply, a wonderful soul and spirit. I will truly miss her dearly.
January 18, 2009
Allison and Tracy,
I'm so sorry to hear about your mom, and especially sorry I didn't find out about it earlier. I have such fond memories of visiting your house as a child. Your mom was always so welcoming and kind. As a child I always thought of her as very pretty and glamorous. Her gentle spirit is what I remember most now. Our prayers are with you all. Stephanie Merton Dahlquist
Carla Dragotti
September 17, 2008
Words cannot describe the void that has occurred with my aunt's passing. Aunt Barbara will be sorely missed, but never ever forgotten.
Alison Pearl
September 16, 2008
My mom was my best friend. We spent countless hours shopping and talking about silly stuff like "All My Children" story lines....we would joke that we should have our own "bat phone" because I would call her several hundred times a day - especially when I saw some really cool jewelry on Value Vision or QVC. She would call me to tell me to flip on a channel or to remind me to put on one of the many TV shows we used to watch, or to remind me to take out the garbage or the recycling! She would also feel the need to describe in rediculous detail the plot of a movie she saw or what was happening in the book she was currently reading! It's amazing that even sick she worried about everyone else. She made me soup when I had food poisoning, and I told her she should have stayed away from me because we didn't know if it was a virus or not at the time, and she had just finished chemo....
Mom had it rough for a long time, especially after she moved in with us and was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Something so "curable" caused so many problems for her. The Drs feel she passed away due to a blood clot in her lung which was most likely a complication from the cancer.
I don't want to remember her sick - she wasn't herself for over a year. I want to remember her as my best friend...laughing with her, looking at jewelry, playing music, celebrating holidays together, watching her hold my children, eating a bag of Hershey's Kisses with her....
I'll never forget the sing-songy way she'd answer the phone "helloooooo", the way her hands felt (usually cold by the way), the curves of her nails, the smell of her perfume, the gentle way she'd touch my shoulder or my hair, the sound of her feet dragging around in her slippers on the wood floor....
I love you mom, and I'll see you again one day,
Alison
Carmel Gucciardo
September 13, 2008
Barbara was my sister-in-law. I remember how beautiful she was. I'm so sorry she suffered so much. She has been and will always be in my prayers.
Tracey Urzi
September 10, 2008
My mom went to be with Jesus her Lord at approximately 12:15-12:20 AM the morning of Friday September 5, 2008 at the too young age of 67 years old. My mom endured much from Hodgkins Lymphoma: 4 different chemotherapy treatments, radiation, and a stem cell transplant. The doctor believe that she died from a blood clot in her lung. Mom left us at North Shore Plainview hospital surrounded by her daughters, Tracey & Alison, her sons in law Eddie & Danny, her nephew Douglas Dragotti, and our pastors Claude Stauffer & Jeff Cole of Calvary Chapel of Hope. We have a blessed hope that we will certainly see her again, in her new body without illness or pain, when the Lord calls us home (Matthew 20:1-16, John 3:14-16, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 Thess 4:13-14).
My mom and I shared many loves: reading, bowling, rodeo, dogs (Babe, Fluffy, Junior, Lucky, and my Sandy the granddog) Avon, and Doo-wop (we shared a favorite Jukebox). My mom gave me encouragement and was so proud of me when I won scholarships & graduated with my sign language interpreting degree. My mom also always showed such concern for me; even when she was in the hospital, she would ask about my sore throat and tell me to gargle with salt water. She would always ask about my in-laws, and my in-laws always asked about her and said they were praying for her.
My mom loved her grandsons Nicholas, Timothy, and Jayden and were so proud of them. She always had pictures of them with her.
My mom loved animals. When she was a teen, she used to go horseback riding and had once thought she'd like to be a vet but didn't pursue it because she wouldn't be able to put animals to sleep. Before my wedding to Eddie, I stayed with my mom in the house I grew up in in Massapequa with my dog Sandy who returned the favor by chewing some of my mom's furniture.
My mom loved Indian pow-wows and she enjoyed going to one with me and Eddie a few years ago. My mom would call me on my birthday every year and sing Happy Birthday just like my grandmother used to do. Although weak from recently being discharged from one of her hospital stays, she insisted on attending Eddie's 45th birthday party at the West Babylon bowling alley and we have great pictures of her smiling and eating pizza. I am glad that I was able to spend one more happy outing with her at the Mill Neck Designer Showcase. She loved it and was so enthusiastic that she insisted on taking the stairs rather than the elevator and only sat down once to rest!
Anyway, I have too many good memories to share here and I hope many others will share their memories and pictures of my mom.
I love you very much, mom, and will miss you more and more each and every day until I am with you again.
Always, your "Tracella"
Linda Santelli
September 8, 2008
Dear Barbara,
You fought you a very brave battle where many would have given up.
You are dearly loved and will be dearly missed.
Rest In Peace.
Love your Cousin, Linda
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