MADONNA OAKES Obituary
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Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2024
3-1-2024
Mom, how can it be fifteen years today. Not a day goes by that I do not think of you or speak of you. You are missed beyond words. I stopped at the cemetery the other day and cleaned up a lot of the winter stuff that has flown around. I need to wait a little bit for the ground to thaw in order to get the beautiful holiday wreath off. The stand is still frozen into the ground. I stop to sit on the bench just to speak to you and Father Reggie every time I travel that way.
So much has happened, so much has changed, you have lots of beautiful great grand-babies that you would have gone nuts over.
Chelsea, is home this week. She has a beautiful little girl named Stevie Wren, and a step daughter named Sawyer who is only 11 but so grown up looking. She is also beautiful and she loves her baby sister. Chelsea, has a very good looking man in her life that she loves. We have not met him in person yet and because they all live in New Hampshire. I want to drive down to see her little family.
Mom, all of your great grand babies are growing up so fast.
Little Rickey and Heather got married just before Christmas after celebrating 18 years already together. It was a beautiful ceremony outside and at their home. My heart was so happy for both of them. Little Rickey just turned 40. How can that be because I don’t feel the age I am.
Life does not stop and everyone seems so busy living their own lives with their loved ones. Truly, I wished we all spent more time together. Even I am guilty of always being to busy.
Sometimes, I think we do that because when we are all together it reminds all of us of the family times we used to have when you both were here.
The pain of losing you is so real and it never lets up.
I just know you both would be real proud of your legacy you left behind.
We all love you both and miss you both so much.
Till we meet again.
I love you!
Oh I still tease them all by saying I am THE BEST LOOKING ONE OUT IF THE BUNCH. It makes me laugh because I can still see you smiling whenever I teased them with it.
M❤M I love you. Give Father Reggie and everyone big hugs from all of us. I hope Montana, Andie, and your Angel Dog Bob The Dog are romping the fields with you. Give them big hugs from me too. I miss them too.
My Richard says we have the second generation of them now. Yes, we have another yellow lab - Angel Dog with big brown eyes named River, a brown lab like Montana named Scarlett, and a playful black lab puppy named Boomer now. We still have 13 year old Rosco. The tea cup yorkie I got because I knew you always wanted one. He is still full of life and rules the roost.
There is so much I want to tell you and if you listen closely you will hear me.
XOXOXO I KNOW you are sending us reminders of you still being around. Maybe, they are called memories but to each of us they are blessings.
Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2023
3-1-23 Fourteen years today Mom. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you or speak your name. I swear I talk to you every night at 3:00. AM.
WE ALL MISS YOU and it still feels unreal and like a bad nightmare.
Mom, you certainly was loved and now badly missed.
Till we meet again. I loved you and will love you for eternity and a day.
TBLOOOTB
CINDY
XOXO
Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2021
I hate the month of March because it brings many memories of the loss of so many loved ones. Today marks the 12 anniversary of losing my hero and best friend.
Mom,
The day you died I kissed your face...after you died I held you close.
I knew it would be the last time I held you for the rest of my life.
Even at that moment I couldn't imagine life without you.
Until that moment I had never known a true broken heart.
Softly I speak your name every day, people still say it gets easier with time...that is a lie.
Time just gives us time to remember all the wonderful times we had as a family.
Tears still stream down my face as I fondly remember your smile, the sound of your voice, and the sound of your laughter.
You're my honeybunch,
sugar plum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin
You're my sweetie pie
You're my cuppycake, gumdrop Snoogums, boogums, you're
The apple of my eye
And I love you so
And I want you to know
That I'll always be right here
And I love to sing
Sweet songs to you
Because you are so dear...
I loved you Mom and I MISS you and Father Reggie.
Sending my love, hugs, and strength to my brothers and sisters who are also feeling the same way I am today. XOXOXOXO WE ALL MISS YOU!
Mom and Father Reggie we are making the trip north to meet our newest family member River Storm.
Grammie Donna your yellow Angel Dog is now 14 1/2 and we know we can’t keep him forever ... we pray we have years left with him but we know that will not happen.
Someday, he will cross that rainbow bridge and run straight to Montana, Andie, and to you. I can’t bear the thought of losing my last connection to you. So we chose to keep another ANGEL DOG in our lives. River will be another yellow lab just like Bob. So he will be a daily reminder of you being with us.
Loving you always and forever.
Missing both of you...
❤❤
CANCER SUCKS
Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2020
March 1, 2020
Eleven years ago today Mom passed away of pancreatic cancer. Not a day has gone by that I have not thought of her. She was my hero and helped me become who I am today. I LOVE YOU MOM and we all miss you!
Sitting here thinking and wondering how do I honor the 11th year anniversary of my Moms passing.
Do I crawl under a rock and pretend it never happened? Do, I just post a poem and a letter in her memory. Do I just go about my day and try to pretend it is not real? Do the tears that are streaming from my face tell the heartbreak of how much I really miss her?
I choose to remember you with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you.
When we speak of M❤M,
speak not with tears,for thoughts of her should not be sad. Let memories of the times each of us shared give us comfort, for her life was rich because of all of us.
The time has flown but my heart still remains broken forever. I know you and Father Reggie are together watching over all of us. I know my dogs are happy with you .... and I know I miss you beyond words every day.
I can still hear your laughter, the two of you bantering back and forth, and when I close my eyes I can picture you sitting at the kitchen table drinking your coffee with a big smile.
We all miss you...and as time marches on we remain your legacy and we live each day trying to make you proud. You would have loved all of your great grand babies, wished you were here to see them.
Miss you M❤M xoxoxoxo! I know you are with us because when I need you the most I see signs ...and I still find white feathers at the oddest of times.
I love you. XOXOXO ❤
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Molly Garnett
March 7, 2019
Wow, its been forever since I have posted on here. Doesn't mean I don't think or talk to you everyday. Times are getting tough in this crazy world we live in, and I couldn't count how many times you have been by my side for each and every mistake I've made and saved me. I will forever be grateful to have called you my grandmother. I love you so much. I can not believe it's been 10 years since you have left us. I know your spirit will forever be by my side... all of our sides. Fly the highest you can beautiful angel. I'll see you someday.
Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2019
I love you and miss you. ❤
Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2019
March 1, 2019
Ten years ago today Mom passed away of pancreatic cancer. Not a day has gone by that I have not thought of her. She was my hero and helped me become who I am today. I LOVE YOU MOM and we all miss you!
Sitting here thinking and wondering how do I honor the ten-year anniversary of my Moms passing. Do I crawl under a rock and pretend it never happened? Do, I just post a poem and a letter in her memory. Do I just go about my day and try to pretend it is not real? Do the tears that are streaming from my face tell the heartbreak of how much I really miss her?
I choose to remember you with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you.
When we speak of M❤M,
speak not with tears,for thoughts of her should not be sad. Let memories of the times each of us shared give us comfort, for her life was rich because of all of us.
The time has flown but my heart still remains broken forever. I know you and Father Reggie are together watching over all of us. I know my dogs are happy with you .... and I know I miss you beyond words every day.
I can still hear your laughter, the two of you bantering back and forth, and when I close my eyes I can picture you sitting at the kitchen table drinking your coffee with a big smile.
We all miss you...and as time marches on we remain your legacy and we live each day trying to make you proud. You would have loved all of your great grand babies, wished you were here to see them.
Miss you M❤M xoxoxoxo! I know you are with us because when I need you the most I see signs and I still find white feathers at the oddest of times.
I love you. XOXOXO ❤
Cindy Moore-Rossi
May 24, 2014
Happy 74th Birthday, MOM! You made my world a better place and now you are making people in heaven smile! My present to you will be giving out hugs, smiles, and acts of kindness Madonna-style! I'm grateful to be your daughter and for the peace of knowing where you are and that someday we will all be together again forever!
Mom you were my hero and I live each and every day trying to make you proud...I love you and I miss you. Six years have passed since I sung Happy 68th birthday to you and hugged you close.
I am thinking of you and Father Reggie and how much we all miss both of you.
- the best looking one out of the bunch. I love you and miss you so much it hurts...it never gets any easier!
Molly Garnett
May 12, 2014
Stop turning on that stereo at moms! And the lights! Hahaha.
One night I was sitting at moms, Merrill and I were sitting on the couch, mom was in the kitchen. And the stereo turned on (there is no remote to it) and mom said it started playing the grateful dead album. And the lamp that mom has that was mam and grampys, turns on all the time. I love you and miss you both!! :)
May 11, 2014
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One of the last phots taking with Mom in 2009.
Cindy Rossi
May 11, 2014
05-11-2014
Happy Mother's Day Mom!
I love you and Father Reggie very much. WE ALL MISS YOU so much. Not a day goes by that your name is not sweetly spoken of. Mom, I have not had time to write...no I avoid writing because it hurts so much not having you here. Your dear friend Bernadette Beal just passed away this past week. She was so good to you and Father Reggie and I know you both shared a lot of laughter at work.
If Roses grow in Heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Mother's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away!!
I love you!
gina oakes rittenhouse
November 14, 2013
I miss you both all day every day..I couldn't have askd for better parents.xoxo
Cindy Moore-Rossi
November 14, 2013
I love you and miss you both. Yesterday was hard and I avoided this site because it hurts knowing your not here. Mom and Father Reggie not a day goes by that we all do not speak your names. Not a day goes by that we do not cry a tear. Not a day goes by that our hearts do not break. Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Father Reggie passing. IT SUCKS...IT HURTS!
We love you and miss you both so very, very much. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and a part of me is thinking I hate the holidays now... the other part of me knows and remembers just how important they were to you.
I am glad I have to work this year on both Thanksgiving and Christmas but now I am going to miss my family time with my brothers and sisters.
Why does this not get any easier?
I love you both and miss you both. xoxoxoxoxoxo Cindy
candy
November 13, 2013
missing you both like crazy....
Cindy Rossi
May 24, 2013
Happy birthday Mom. today would have been your 73 birthday. I miss making you a birthday cake and hiding one dollar bills in the candle straws. Wow it would have been a big ball of fire this year with $73.00 worth of straw candles. I think we would have needed a fire extinguisher! I miss you...we miss you!
The headstone was set in place yesterday afternoon for you and father. It is beautiful and you both would have been some tickled and proud to see it.
We even had Grampy Oakes date finished on his stone. The kids are taking good care of the site and keeping it looking beautiful. The flowers that are there now are gorgeous.
Happy Memorial Day...we are remembering you both.
xoxoxoxoxooxoxoxooxoxxoxo
We are missing you both!
Love ya to the moon and back and a whole lot more.
Cindy P. Moore-Rossi
gina
May 23, 2013
i saw all these posts but the one that stood out is faiths,,nov.14th..asking if dad was in heaven if dad was there yet..he was the minute he left us...
Mom and Dad's Stone 05 12 2013
Cindy Rossi
May 12, 2013
Mom I Miss You- Happy Mother's Day 2013
It's Mother's Day again,
And I'm trying to make it through,
Because this day reminds me
Of all the things I miss about you.
I miss your face smiling down at me,
With love shining from your eyes.
I miss the way you'd laugh at my jokes
So hard that it made you cry.
I miss the touch of your dear hands,
How gentle and kind they could be.
And I miss the warmth of your hugs, and how
You'd wrap me up tight as could be.
I could spend each Mother's Day in sorrow,
Crying and wishing you were here,
But instead I choose to celebrate your life,
A life I still hold so dear.
I know you'd rather see me smile
Than stand here with tears in my eyes.
So I'll do my best to honor your memory,
And you'll live on as long as I am alive.
And so I sit here once again
Remembering these things I miss
And this year, just like every year,
I make a silent wish.
I wish that one day I'll see you again,
Whole, and safe, and sound.
That you'll take my hand securely in yours,
And for Heaven we'll be bound.
You were the best mom you could be,
And I never once doubted your love for me.
Mom, I miss you every day but now I now Father Reggie is with you and you both are happy at last to be together. Give him a hug from all of us. We miss you both so very much.
You will be some proud of the headstone that has been done for both of you. It is beautiful. It is a beautiful black granite stone from Africa with white letters. Your side says Madonna A. Oakes May 24,1940- Mar.1, 2009 and it has a beautiful hummingbird with a vine of Forget Me Not flowers. Fathers side has Reginald L. Sr. Mar.4, 1934- Nov. 13, 2012 and a big old legal size limit trout on it. We are in hopes to have it set up at the cemetary any day now.
Mom and Father our hearts miss you all the time and we speak your names daily.
I love you to the moon and back and a whole lot more. xoxoxox Cindy P. Rossi
Cindy Rossi
January 29, 2013
01-29-2013
Mom and Father Reggie...I am sitting her missing you both so very much today. I love you! xoxoxoxxoxo
Some days are harder than others and today is one of them.
We are all hanging in there but our hearts are broken from missing you both.
Love ya to the moon and back and then some more. Until we meet again...
Love Cindy
Cindy Rossi
December 26, 2012
Happy Anniversary to Mom and Father! Today would have been your 48th anniversary since the day you both said I do. (December 26, 1964)
I miss you both so very much. Christmas this year was hard without you father.
You both would have loved your Christmas tree this year. It is a big tree too...lots of pretty red bows, ornaments and lights. I stopped at your grave on Christmas Eve just to say I love you, and Happy anniversary, and I miss you.
A toast to two hearts who 48 years ago... said I do.
Madonna Ann Rossi and Reginald Oakes Sr. started a hard journey together to grow. Along the way their family grew from Philip Rossi Jr., Cindy Rossi, Richard Rossi, Regina Rittenhouse, Faith Ginn, Bobbi Jo Garnett, Peanut Oakes.
Love filled two hearts with gentle joy...Giving them many things to enjoy.
Through sun, rain or stormy weather their loved grew. Warm bright love kept them together
Love shone on throughout the years. Through joy, laughter, tears and fears...Together they fought the trials of life. They passed from this earth as husband and wife. In the life they've created together.
Leaving behind a legacy of love to their children and grandchildren as well as to their other family members.
Happiness was theirs yesterday and forever.
Even though they are gone from this earth they are with each of us in our laughter, smiles, tears, and in our fears.
Mom and Dad we love you and will love you forever and ever.
Love you Cindy
xoxoxoxo
Miss you more than words could ever express.
Molly Garnett
November 28, 2012
Grampy, it's be 2 weeks. Mam it's been 3 years. Don't even seem like both of you have been gone for that long. I could feel the energy when I was at the gathering at the fire house, for you. I knew you and Mam were there. It felt like I could hear Mam just a laughing away. I love you both. I'm always thinking of you Mam when I'm playing cards, and I'm always thinking of you grampy when I see whoopie pies. Member that bet we made? If Obama won the election, you had to make me a dozen whoopie pies, well the other day in Culinary I was making whoopie pies, and was just remembering you. They were some good! Love you both.
Cindy P. Moore-Rossi
November 17, 2012
11 17 2012
Oh Mom...we miss you so much but at least we now know you and father Reggie are together again.
There is no doubt in my mind you both are holding hands and smiling down on all of us.
This hurts beyond words and we miss both of you so much. I do not understand how life works or why things happen they way they do. I just know my love for both of you is real.
You take good care of Father Reggie and remember one day we will all be together again.
Mom and Father I will take care of the kids and keep an eye on them I promise!
We will stay together as a family and I hope and pray we can continue on with our family gatherings especially on Christmas Eve. I suppose if we don't it will be okay because we can start our own Christmas Eve memories with our children and grandchildren.
These last few days have been nothing but a blur and I know you are giving me the strength to get the things done that need to be done. I have been working hard on making sure the memorial service for father and you is a nice one. I am quite sure you will be proud and the kids will be very pleased. I will not lie to you I hate doing this because it brings back so my heartache from missing you.
Madonna Ann Oakes Maclean 03 01 2009 We all love you Mom! xoxoxoxo
Reginald Lawrence Oakes Sr. 11 12 2012 We all love you Dad! xoxoxoxo
If we could have a lifetime wish
and one dream that could come true
We would pray to God with all our
hearts just to see and speak to you.
A thousand words won't bring you back
We know because we've tried
and neither will a million tears
We know because we've cried.
You've left behind our broken hearts
and precious memories too
But we've never wanted memories
We only wanted you.
Love you both forever and ever!
Cindy P. Rossi
Forever in our hearts.
Molly Garnett
November 14, 2012
It hasn't even been 24 hours yet, since Grampy has left us. How I look at it, is he is healthy, and with you. I miss you & love you guys. <3 You are no longer in pain, I'll see you someday.
candy
November 14, 2012
you are so lucky to have grampie with you in heaven miss you both
Faith Ginn
November 14, 2012
Is Daddy there yet?
Cindy More-Rossi
November 11, 2012
11/11/12
Mom we need you to watch over father Reggie. give him the strength to fight this. We need him here with us. Please be with us...we need you. Love you so much. Cindy
Faith Ginn
November 9, 2012
I love you Mom
Faith
July 30, 2012
Never Forgotten
candy ginn
June 13, 2012
miss you wish you could meet leigha she is such a animal ha ;)
Cindy Rossi
May 24, 2012
05-24-2012
Today would have been my Mom's birthday (Madonna Ann Maclean Oakes) and I miss her so much. She died in 2009 of pancreatic cancer. I still think about her every day. Today she would have been 72! Happy Birthday Mom in Heaven, I love you.
Mom. We'll always remember that special smile, that caring heart, your warm embrace, you always gave us. You being there for EACH of us through good and bad times, no matter what. We'll always remember you Mom because there'll never be another one to replace you in our hearts, and the love we will always have for you.
Happy birthday to you!!! I love you and miss you. xoxoxxo
I wished you was here so I could call you and sing happy birthday to you. You so loved hearing me do that and yes my singing is not all that great but yo would laugh. You woul say do not quit my day job. :) Love you Mom.xoxoxo
Cindy Rossi
April 1, 2012
I love you and miss you!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo
Cindy Rossi
April 1, 2012
04-01-2012
Hi Mom,
Just wanted to let you know Montana got really sick and the vet said it was tumor that was slow growing cancer. It got so big that he could hardly walk...at the end he was so tired and could not eat. Richard and I had to make a wicked hard decision and that was to have him put to sleep. OMG Mom I did not want to do that. I cried for a week thinking about it and I am still crying. We tried everything to keep him going and he just kept getting worse.
I wanted to take him to camp one more time...after getting him into the vehicle we went to camp. It broke my heart to watch him try to stick his head out the window so he could do his Montana wind surfing. He so loved to air surf and of course the drool would slide out of his mouth all over the inside of the car window. I tried to take him for a walk at camp and he could only walk about ten feet or so. I could not even get him into camp so he could spend some time on the futon. Montana could not even walk up over the steps. I cried like a baby and put him back in the car and brought him home.
Mom you so loved Montana and I can remember you holding him as a puppy when we first brought him home. He was born on Grammy Martha Fagonde's birthday and I brought Tana home on Mother's Day and brought him right over to see you and Father Reggie. You fell in love with his blue eyes.
Richard and I took Montana to the vets March 29, 2012 and we had the vet put him to sleep so he was no longer suffering. I laid on the floor with him and cried and I mean cried. Richard even cried and it was so hard. Montana laid his paw in my hand and I rubbed his foot as he lapped my face. Mom I told Montana to go find you and Kato (Rickey's and Heather's dog). It was as though Montana knew it was time and was ready. He just looked at me and laid his head on my arms and went to sleep. Mom go find my big brown dog and take good care of him until we meet again. He will be hunting for you.
Mom, he loves having his paws rubbed in between his toes and he loved to sleep on my side of the bed.
I told him to take good care of you and to give you lots of puppy kisses when he found you.
Montana- Iyshta Skye Brown April 10, 2002- March 29, 2012 My big brown chocolate lab. Tana Dog I love and I miss you awful. I had a bad anxiety attack last night from missing you.
Mom and Montana I love you both very much and I can not wait till the day we see each other again.
I am still hurting..Faith, Gina, Bobbie, and Peanut all have been so good with helping me get through this. I will send you some pictures of Tana so you will recognize him. I love you!!!!
xoxoxo
Molly Garnett
March 27, 2012
Just a little reminder that I haven't stopped thinking about you.
"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're closer in heart."
I love you, & miss you. You were the only person I could talk to and now I have everything trapped inside. Sometime & someday soon, we'll reunite, & I will tell you all the adventures I have had. :)
-Molly.
Cindy Rossi
March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012
You will be forever in our hearts and in everything we do. Love you and miss you so very much. Mom, are you watching over us? I will be awake at 10:58 PM tonight staring blankly at the clock on the wall.
Love you and miss you so very much! xoxox
Cindy Moore-Rossi
March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012
Miss You Mom
Mom you always made me feel safe and held my hand when I needed guidance.
We all miss you mother because you brought us love and endless happiness.
On March 1, 2009, you died leaving us all alone, oh God how I cried …When you died our world came crashing down!
Why did you have to go.
There is not a day go by that you are not on our minds. I see you in my dreams, everywhere I look are the memories of you. We know God needed you more than we did but that does not make it any easier on us.
I wish you were here Mom I miss you so much …no one even knows what I would give for just one touch, or to hear the sound of your beautiful voice.
I would give anything to have you here as long as you were not suffering.
We are sad and lost Mom from missing you so much. Time does help get rid of the tears I cry each day…but it does not make my heart feel less saddened by your passing.
It has been three long years but it still feels like yesterday.
Mom we love you and thank you for all you did for us and I hope someday we all make you proud of each of us.
We love you and we miss you.
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Cindy
Miss you more than words could ever say. Love you
Faith Ginn
March 1, 2012
Missing you.
Home Sweet Home!!!
cindy rossi
October 16, 2011
Mom and Cubby smiling
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October 16, 2011
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October 16, 2011
Mom, I love you and I miss you!
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October 16, 2011
Richard Moore, Mom and Father Reggie...she loved lobster.
cindy rossi
October 16, 2011
Cindy what are they doing? I am not telling Mom. LOL
cindy rossi
October 16, 2011
Mom is going to find you hiding behind the big bad tree!
cindy rossi
October 16, 2011
Bubba and Mammie
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October 16, 2011
Say Cheese! I can still hear your laughter!!!
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October 16, 2011
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October 16, 2011
Mom loved her new car!!!
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October 16, 2011
Mom and Father Reggie
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October 16, 2011
Cindy and Mom
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October 16, 2011
Mom and Phil
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October 16, 2011
Cubby dog...Mom loved you!
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October 16, 2011
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October 16, 2011
Peanut, Grampy, Mammie and Landen
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October 16, 2011
Gramp, Baby Landen, and Mammie
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October 16, 2011
Mom loved her birthday cake I made.
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October 16, 2011
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October 16, 2011
Faith and Mom
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Mom's pride and joy was her flower garden.
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
I will love you forever!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
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Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
I love this photo I took of Mom at our camp in 2007
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
I can still hear Mom laughing when Father Reggie did this.
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Madonna and Reginald Oakes - True Love!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
The whole family minus Gina who had to work.
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Peanut, Landen, Mammie
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Miss Molly, Foxie, Mammie and Chelsea
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Mammie and Chelsea
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Mammie and Miss Molly
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Trick or Treat Mammie!!!!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Now you listen to me. LOL
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Mom and Father Reggie laughed so hard that night!!!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Mom loved our Christmas Eve gatherings!!!!!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
I love my parents!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
This was an awesome Christmas!
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Mom sat in Santa's lap and Father Reggie did too.
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Wonder what Mom was whispering?
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Merry Christmas Mom
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Christmas 2008
Mom, Jennifer and Ricky Moore
Cindy Rossi
October 16, 2011
Candy GInn
July 21, 2011
I haven’t wrote to you for a while I have been so busy I think of you all the time well I had you great grand daughter May 8th which was mothers day. Her name is Leigha Ann Pendleton she is such a great baby. Wish she could meet you. I miss you! Love Candy Ann Ginn
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. <3
Molly Garnett
June 9, 2011
Cindy Rossi
May 25, 2011
05-24-2011
Happy birthday Mom! Today would have been your 71st birthday. We all miss you so much and not a day goes by that you are not on our minds. Mom,I want you to be here with us.
We Celebrate Your Life
Mom, your birthday means so much to us;
To have you in our lives another year,
The time we spent enfolded in your love,
Each day, each moment with you is so dear.
We cherish the very special bond we have.
You lift my spirit in so many ways.
We celebrate your life; We honor you,
And send to you our love and care and praise.
Love you all the way to heaven and back. xoxoxoxxo
Cindy P. Moore-Rossi
Kathy Caler
March 2, 2011
Hey Donna
Well my friend,its been 2 years now. I'm still working and the same old stuff is going on, but you know that as I have felt you there with me many times. I know some folks would say we were foolish for what we believed we saw or heard but I know it is you.
I am learning to live with you not being there except in my heart and thoughts. God I still miss you something awful. My schedule is as screwy as always.
This past week has been hard but you were there with me thru one of the tuffist things I ever had to sit thru. I am so sorry I did not include you in the whole process but you had enough on your mind and did not need the extra burden the whole thing would have put on you. And it would have been even harder for you then me and it sure of hard.
We speak of you often and have your pirate picture close by at work. I love that picture of you, cocky little brat that you were. HAHA
Well will close for now my friend
Love you and Miss you dearly
Kathy
Cindy P Moore-Rossi
February 28, 2011
03/01/2011
Mom Words Can Say How much We All Miss You
Madonna Ann (MacLean) Oakes, 68, went to be with the Lord and his angels, March 1, 2009, at a Bangor hospital. She was born May 24, 1940, Madonna was a very kind and caring person. She dedicated her life to her family and friends, especially her children. She is survived by her loving husband of 44 years, Reginald Oakes; her children, their children and family members.
We can’t believe it’s been two years. We miss you more with each passing day. I still can’t seem to stop my tears. Mom, since the day you went away; yet it seems like just last night, we watched you fade away. Mom, when you closed your eyes, I knew our hearts would break. So many things we didn’t do.
Mom, you are in our hearts, and always you will be. We miss you so much. I see you in my dreams every now and then. I know that you are in heaven now. You left us in the time that we needed you the most, but it wasn’t your choice.
I miss the warmth of your gentle hug and the love I felt when my arms were wrapped around you. I miss seeing your beautiful smile and the sound of your voice saying my name. I miss hearing you say, “I love you,” and me saying, “I love you” in return. I miss hearing you say Love You, See You, Gone when ever we spoke on the phone. I miss hearing how proud you were of each of us when you spoke our names.
I miss saying “Mom” out loud. I miss your words of wisdom and our family without you in it. I miss the look in your eyes that traveled straight to my heart. I miss the gift of you in the life I have embraced from the day I was born. I miss YOU Mom!
I said goodbye to the part of me that held you and said, “You can go now” on that painful day!
And then, in the Grace of that moment.... I close my eyes and feel the warmth of your gentle hug once more and envision wrapping my arms around you. I see your smile as you say my name. I realize that if I could just go back into my precious memories of you I would find your treasured words of wisdom in a special place deep in my heart.
And then an overwhelming sense of peace and love surrounds me…because I suddenly realize that you already know and understand each feeling I hold within my soul before I feel it!
The part of me that let you go was the part of me that knew you would be the Angel who watched over all of us; that believed there truly was a God and that one day we would walk toward your wide open arms and hear you say, “This is my family; I love you; you can come now”!
And in the peace of that moment, angels flutter their wings and leave us…. knowing that we understand…. I am okay! You are with me in my heart!
Mom the pain does not get any easier...I spend my time remembering what you looked like, what you sounded like, remembering the sound of your laughter, of your lectures, and your telling of funny jokes.
I dream of you when I am a sleep and I hear your voice when I am wide awake.
We all miss you and March 1, 2011 will mark the second anniversary since you left us. Mom it is hard and I hate not having you here with us. I hate not seeing you and I hate that you had to go through what you went through. Mom I love you with all my heart and that will never change. We all love you and we all miss you!
I Love You Mom!
Mom, nothing will make my tears go away as I think fondly of you every day. Love You, See You, Gone!
xoxoxoxoxoxo The Best Looking One Out Of The Bunch. I can still hear you laugh every time I tease the others by saying that. I will not sleep tomorrow night while dreaming of you.
Molly Garnett
February 25, 2011
Hey Mam. It has been awhile since I wrote on here. I got some catching up to do.
My Christmas was good. It would of been better, if you were their with us at the party. That went well, all the family getting together. I don't have much contact with them as much.
My Valentines Day,was good. I got a ring. Not meaning I got married though. Haha.
I found out Lanie was having a girl. She is so precious. All ready. She is going to be beautiful. The ultrasound pictures are so cute. I cannot wait for her to be born. Lanie has chosen on a girl name. She is thinking 'Macy Jo Brenton'. She got "Jo" from Bobbi Jo, and Billie Jo. Billie Jo is Justin's moms name. When Macy is born, I am going to tell her ALL about you. She will love you, just as much as I did.
I am on school vacation right now, I go back Monday. Mom, is taking me and a friend, to the Colonnial Inn, to go swimming, and out to Pizza hut.
Me and Grampy went to go get him a new phone about a month and a half ago. I had to set it up for him, and I had to help him know how to work it. Haha. He is making it. He keeps himself busy. He misses you more than anything. He talks about you all the time also.
I can't believe it has almost been 2 years. Where has the time gone? I think about you all the time, when I am playing cards, I always tell about when you and me played poker. Someday, and somehow I will see you again.
I hide my tears from everybody, but the Heaven's cry for me.
I love and miss you BUNCHES!! (:
-Molly Garnett.
Cindy Moore-Rossi
February 14, 2011
02-14-2011
Happy Valentine's Day Mom
Roses are red...violets are blue and one thing for sure is I miss you!
I think of you every day MOM!
Miss you so much and this time of year just makes it worse. I can still see you when father Reggie brought you out those roses. You loved them! Mom he loves you and he misses you just like all of us.
Cindy P. Moore-Rossi
The Best Looking One Out Of The Bunch
Yes, I still tease the kids about that. Love you...See you...Gone I miss hearing you say that to me.
Cindy Rossi
December 25, 2010
12-25-2010
Merry Christmas Mom
Richard and I are working today for 12 hours and he is cooking us a nice Christmas dinner here at work. We are so blessed to have a full kitchen at work. The officers that are on duty will also stop in and eat with us.
Just wanted to let you know our family gathering last night went well. Everyone laughed and had a good time and all of the kids were there. Phil came and he brought some homemade chocolates that Becky made. Yum divinity fudge, chocolate coconut candy chocolate fudge... oh it was good. I even snuck a piece to bring home with me so I could eat it today.
Richard and Dolly came and his arm looks like it must hurt something awful. He shakes on his right side because of the surgeries they have done on his arm. Dolly looked great and was full of fun as usual. I think she was louder than me this year. She takes good care of Richard.
Gina had to work but we text her a lot and kept her up to date what was going on. She has a new friend in her life and he is a hottie. LOL He actually came to the family gathering with Peanut and Landen. Talk about a culture shock it must have been to him. You know how loud we all can be and how much foolishness we go through. I walked up to him and said hello my name is Cindy and I am the best looking one out of the bunch. He smiled and just looked at me strange. It was funny! After that every time I walked by him I would say the same thing and we would shake hands. At the end of the night Mom I walked up to him and asked him who I was and he told me I was the best looking one out of the bunch. OMG did everyone laugh. He is very nice and you would like him. Gina loves her new job and you would be so proud of her!
Faith and Robert was very good to let us use the upstairs room again for our gathering. Faith cooked her meatballs and a ham. YUMMY meatballs! When I went there I intended to snitch an ornament but I forgot about it. : ( So maybe Sunday when I go over I might get one! That is one tradition that I miss the most. We played our foolish games...Faith wrapped stuff up she had at the house, bars of soap, soda, rice a roni, it was funny. Faith and Bobbi did the games and they made it fun. Bubba was there with one of his friends. He is such a good boy. Not sure where Candy was but she was not there. We missed her.
Bobbi, Dave, Lanie and Miss Molly By Golly was there. Dave is really good with the Bobbi and the girls. Molly was quiet as usual and Lanie Bug was funny. The girls are beautiful and they look like their mother but they hate hearing that. LOL Lanie has turned out to be an awesome kid and she has grown up so much. Molly had fun with Chelsea and they sat together being teenagers.
Peanut and Landen walked up and down the stairs a lot! Yes, you know Landen he loves to go up and down the stairs. Mom when you ask him to smile he closes his eyes...he is missing some of his front teeth. He looks just like his father. He would give everyone a kiss when Peanut told him to. I have a great picture of him kissing Grampy. It reminded me of the one I have of you when Landen kissed you. Uncle Peanut looks good and he sure loves his son.
Pj brought the girls and his new friend named Jen. They seem to get a long great and I hope it works out for them both. She was very good with the girls. Pj looked happy and he was very good. They laughed and played the games just like everyone else. His girls are gorgeous! They have grown up so much and Katie is all grown up.
I brought my grandson Peanut, Chelsea with me and my Richard picked Grampy Reggie up and brought him to the gathering. He had a good time but the poor bugger could not hear anything because we all were very loud and of course with the hearing aids it made it worse. Of course we know a lot of it is not real...selective hearing! Ha ha ha ha He ate good and he even made a plate of food to take home with him so he could make sandwiches today.
There was plenty of food as always but they forgot to cook veggies ha ha ha ha. Yeah we had a pot luck dinner with baked beans, corn bread, goulash which Faith called chop suey, turkey, ham, huge macaroni salad and plenty of sweet foods. Everyone ate until they were stuffed. Chelsea loves our family gatherings. We had to drop her off in Jonesboro with her mother on the way home. She said she wished she could go back home with us. Mom she is 14 now where has the time gone. We are very lucky she is a good girl. My Rickey and his girlfriend Heather did not get over tonight. They were spending Christmas eve with her family. I was okay with that because they spent the day before we us when we did our tree. Rickey looks just like his father but he acts like ME. Mom he loved you and I know you were proud of him. He is such a good boy and I am proud of him.
Grampy Reggie got a little nervous acting at the end of it because he was thinking of you. He cried a little bit and said he wanted to go home now. I packed him up and took him home while Richard rounded the kids up to join us at Grampies house. OMG it hurts to see him cry and it makes me sick to my stomach but I told him it was okay to cry because we all missed you just like he does. I told him we do the family gatherings because it is what you wanted us to do. He said he knows but I think it bothers him to see us all have a good time with out you. Mom, yes we had a great time because we are with each other and we never get to see each other very often. It felt great to see Phil and the others. Of course we laugh and raise cane because we are just like you! Ha ha ha
Richard, Chelsea, my Peanut visited with father for a while...we put all kinds of gifts under his tree and I told him he had to wait to open them on Sunday morning when I get back over there. He said he wanted to wait. I fixed Christmas stockings for him and Cubby that he could sneak into. His had western books stuck out of the top. He smiled and said he is going to read them! When it was time to leave it was hard on me to leave him there alone. Every time I leave he is standing next to the window peering out around the corner of the curtain looking out the window. He might not think we see him standing there because he tries to hide behind the curtain but WE SEE HIM and it breaks our hearts!
We text him when we got home and he told me he was going to peak at his gifts before Sunday. LOL
Mom, we all had a good time last night and I know he did too. I called Uncle Ray and wished him happy birthday. He liked that! All the kids text back and forth last night saying they really had a great time and that we should get together more often because we all do get along great. We do not say we love each other enough but we know it!
Mom you would have been so happy to see how good everyone got along...yes we behaved!
Merry Christmas Mom...love you and miss you!
Cindy
The best looking one out of the bunch.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Cindy Moore-Rossi
December 24, 2010
12-24-2010
Merry Christmas Mom
It is Christmas Eve day and Uncle
Ray's birthday today. We all miss you so very much and there is not a day go by that we all do not think of you. We love you so very,very much. You were the BESTEST MOM in the whole world.
Your smile and laughter would light a room just by having you in it. I sure miss your laughter and your motherly lectures. I still have your last voice mail message to me on my cell phone February 17, 2009.
It is the funniest thing though it only plays when I am really down and low. It is almost like your giving me a lecture letting me know knock it off.
The kids are all doing good. Father Reggie is doing good...he has been complaining about his feet hurting so he went to the doctors they told him it was his shoes. So we will take him to get him a pair that fits better.
He is doing a great job at cleaning the house and keeping his laundry done. He is a good grocery shopper too. Every time I go over I look in his fridge, freezer and cupboards to make sure he has food in the house. He keeps telling get out of my cupboards. LOL I tell him to shut up I am checking to make sure he has food in the house.
He has been working hard on his woodworking. OMG he made a mouse door stop holder and it is so cute...hope he makes me one!
We are all getting together tonight at Faith's for a dinner and our games that you so loved playing. Of course it will be hard but it will also be FUN. We promised we would always get together as a family and I promise to keep doing my best to make sure it happens.
Oh we still like driving each other nuts and there is always disorder on who likes who and who has a hair across their rear end. Wink Wink you know what I mean.
I have many good memories of Christmas Eve pasts...
When we were little Father Reggie would tease us and say lets do the tree and at the last moment he would say I need a cup of tea. I can still hear all the little ones hollering hurry up and all the sound of your whistling tea kettle going off.
The year he said Christmas is over and he picked the tree up decorations, lights still blinking and tossed it off the deck. We laughed so hard to see that tree on the lawn blinking and man did you cuss him out. LOL
The year we played the games..who has the longest scar, the most buttons, the ugliest toes and all of that other foolishness it was so funny when they all started getting undressed to show their scars.
Eating dinner at Bobbie's in Steuben when her baked squash was raw. LOL You and I ate a lot of it that night...as we snuck it in the trash so no one else had to eat it. Ha ha ha ha ha
The year Candy was at cooking school and she came home and was cooking the turkey that year. When they started carving it the blood came out of it. We all found out Candy forgot to thaw the turkey before cooking it. OMG that was so funny!!!!!!
The year Robert made Father Reggie a canoe...I will never forget your faces when you opened the door and saw that sitting on the deck.
The year I got a little hot under the collar with my sister n law and we got into it outside. I can still hear you yelling at me. No way was anyone going to hurt my family or say bad things. I guess that was the MacLean part of me coming out. We all laughed after because no one had ever seen me get angry.
I also felt bad!
I so loved stealing your Christmas ornaments and I put them on my tree every year. Yes, I know you would go to Marden's and buy some of those cheap ones so we could take an ornament off your tree. They are my most prized possessions and shhh I did it to Faith one year and her ornament is on my tree every year. Ha ha ha I so miss picking an ornament off someones tree...maybe I will try and snitch one from Faith's tree this year.
The year we had Christmas at Bobbie's when Santa came on the fire truck. I love the pictures looking back now at them of everyone sitting in his lap on the fire truck. That was the year they undecorated the tree and set it on fire outside. Holy cow from 500 feet back we all could hear that tree go up in a flash that is how dry the tree was. You laughed so hard that night.
Oh Mom we have so many good memories that we have been blessed with because we had great parents and we were a family that loved each other.
The night we had Christmas Eve at the Steuben Fire Department and Candy was Mrs. Claus. That night was the most special because it was our last Christmas Eve together as a family.
My heart is full of love for my family even if there is a couple that need a little throttling
Even though you are not with us physically tonight we know you will be watching over us and laughing as we play some stupid games.
Love you and miss you and you will forever be a part of us and in our hearts.
Love you...See You... Gone
Cindy
The Best Looking One Out Of The Bunch.
December 23, 2010
Hey Donna
Merry Christmas my friend......I miss you this year as bad as last year. I still have the last bottle of sparkling grape juice you got me and have threaten my son if he even thinks of drinking it. As you know he loves the stuff.
Well my friend a day does not go by without me thinking of you and often I speak of you to someone.
Miss you and always will
Kathy
Cindy Rossi
December 4, 2010
12-04-2010
Have been thinking of you a lot lately. Thanksgiving was lonely without your laughter but it was good. We took Father Reggie over a nice big plate of food in the evening because he would not come down to the house.
He wanted to go hunting instead. Chelsea and I then went and visited Aunt Faith and Uncle Robert for a few minutes. We had to check out her chickens...yeah we all were in the chicken coop in the dark. Of course you know me I had to take pictures of the chickens. LOL
They thought it was morning when the flash went off and started crowing. It was funny.
Faith and I took father to Bangor for his eye doctors appointment. You would have been proud of him. He never yelled once when they stuck the needle in his eye. OUCH!!
Richard and I are going to take him to his hearing appointment and then back to the eye specialist for a follow up appointment. My fingers are crossed that he does not need another shot of medication in his eyes.
Chelsea turned 14 yesterday and we thought of you. Today we stopped at Grampies so she could take him some of her birthday cake. He went to the store on his own and bought her a birthday card and put some money in it. After, went to Bangor and she spent her birthday money on a dress for her Christmas Concert this coming Friday.
Rickey II is getting so big and he is such a good boy. Mom he is just like me but he still looks like his father.
Love you and miss you lots
The holiday time is very difficult for all of us and to be honest it just plain stinks.
Miss you much!
The Best Looking One Out Of The Bunch!
Cindy P. Moore-Rossi
Molly Garnett
December 3, 2010
Hey Mam. I am in High School. I am a Freshman...FINALLY. But, I was thinking, and I looked out the window, and I saw rain falling from the sky. And I was wondering, if the rain drops were your tears? But then I realized that, why would you be crying? You are happy up there! But I am not happy down here. I find it unfair, that you had to leave so quickly, it was not your time to go, you needed to stay longer.
You are going to be a great-grammy though!! I wish you could see Lanie's new baby, when it comes. Some how and some day you will. I am betting it is a boy(:
Everyone tells me everything happens for a reason. WELL. I don't like this reason, and still have not figured it out yet. It has been a almost two years, since you have not been here with us, where has the time gone!! Seems like only yesterday you and me were sitting at the table, playing cards, and betting money. Hahaha. Those are the time I will NEVER forget.
I love you Mammie<3(:
Molly Garnett
November 4, 2010
Yesterday I was home alone. My mom went to a friend's, and Dave was at the store. And I was walking to my bedroom to get my phone charger, and I grabbed it and I stood there starring at the wall, feeling that someone was behind me, I turned around quickly, and honestly I saw a quick glance at you. I could describe what you were wearing! It was the most scariest thing in my life, then I calmed down, and said to myself "She is only watching after me, while I am home alone." I know if anything happens to me, you will be there watching. I love you and miss you so much. Not a day goes past that I don't think of you, or our memories together.
Cindy Rossi
October 19, 2010
God saw you getting tired & a cure was not to be so. He put his arms
around you and whispered come with me. With tearful eyes I watched you
and saw you pass away, although I loved you dearly, I could not make
you stay. A golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands at rest;
...God... broke my heart to prove, He only takes the BEST.
Mom I love you and miss you.
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