Katherine M. Feykes

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Katherine Feykes Obituary

Katherine M. Feykes, nee Garofalo, beloved wife of Emmet; loving mother of William, Helen and Cheryl Feykes; proud grandmother of Daisy; dear sister of Tomasina (Bob) Margis and Rose (Cal) Aldridge; fond aunt of many nieces and nephews. Funeral service Thursday, 8 p.m. at the Hickey Memorial Chapel, 4201 W. 147th St., Midlothian. Cremation private. Visitation Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m. 708-385-4478.

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Published by Chicago Tribune on Jan. 1, 2003.

Memories and Condolences
for Katherine Feykes

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3 Entries

Rita Ramos

December 29, 2011

Hey momma this is your 3rd daughter Rita, I miss u mama Feykes and always will. I.did not know about this guestbook or I would have signed it a long time a go. Your girls miss you but are being very strong so you can be proud of them. Cheri and Helen will always be in my life and remain my bestfriends forever no matter what goes on in our lives. Say hi to my Uncle Tommy if u see him, he is new to heaven. Love and miss you.

Helen Katherine Feykes

January 19, 2003

Well I guess know one but me knows about this guestbook, but that's ok. A lot of times it's felt like it was just you and me. I am your shadow, I can't believe how exactly I am to you, me and Darrel laugh about it. I just wish I could have known you were going to leave me forever, I didn't say goodbye, I mean I didn't get to say I will miss you more than the air that I breathe, more than the horsepower in my car, more than the sun shining on me. Life will NEVER be the same without you there for me to call or come see. Everything I am is because of you. I hope and pray everyday that heaven is a real place and when my time has come to leave this earth, you will be there at the gate waiting for me, telling me to hurry cause there are only 5 wheel of fortune $.25 games left and your holding first spot. I can't wait to hug you again, to kiss you, to hold you, to love you. What I did was not enough, I love and miss you mama sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomuch!

Please pray for dad, his jaw is really bad, Love us from above.

Wella

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Helen Katherine Feykes

January 4, 2003

Chops aka Mom,

I still can't believe that I will never be able to...... see that beautiful smile, those beautiful eyes, that cute little nose, those beautiful lips again....I will never be able to pick up the phone and laugh with you or cry with you or seek your advice or complain about my job or life in general....I will never be able to take you to the riverboat or to bingo or to my new apartment or to aunt rosies or to dorchester or to Las Vegas or to my wedding....that is the biggest regret I have in my short 37 years with you is that I was never able to give you the extreme pleasure of seeing your oldest and most beautiful daughter get married...my only consolation is that I know you love Darrel and have entrusted him to love me as you have, although NOONE will or can even begin to love me as you have. Words cannot begin to describe how much you love me and I you. There has always been such a bond between us, through thick and thin, when we argued (like dad says cause were so alike!)when we laughed, when we cried. I was asked to say something at your funeral, and I did not even begin to touch on what you mean to me and always will. I do not nor will I ever make a decision in my life without thinking, What would Chops say I should or should not do? You taught me so many things. You taught me to...never love someone more than I love myself (except for you I have)...you taught me to stand up for myself and my family no matter what...you taught me to act like a lady and show respect to my elders...you taught me to help others who were in need...you taught me that It is okay to tell a little lie to protect someones feelings...you taught me to be proud to be a strong outspoken woman when the situation called for it....you taught me to be a proud unspoken woman when the situation called for it...you taught me to be proud of myself and my family even when I or we have done things we aren't so proud of...you taught me to admit when I was wrong and apologize even when it was the HARDEST thing to do...you taught me to like my family and friends even when sometimes it was hard to lke them even though I love them....you taught me that blood is thicker than water and that family ALWAYS comes first....you taught me that life is too short to hold grudges and that I need to let family and friends know exactly how much they mean to me before it is to late...although I did my very best to tell and show you how very much I love you, it was not enough, I needed about another 100 years or so to honor you, to cherish you, to make you laugh, to wipe away your tears, to hug you, to kiss you, to rub your back, to brush your beautiful hair, to play poker with you, to play canasta with you, to play aggravation with you, to go to bingo with you, to take you to the river boat a million more times.....but alas I have run out of time....I have many regrets, but I am trying not to dwell on those, I know you wouldn't want that so instead I am going to spend my time thinking about how much fun we had at dorchester, how you smiled that day at the riverboat, all those nights when you brought home the White Castles after Bingo, all those late night card games, all the fun we had at dad's work picnic, all the fun we had at aunt rosies, all the hell I gave you and dad while growing up yet you still loved me, watching dark shadows with you, watching sad movies and crying with you, surprising you that day and taking you to see your 2nd main man Frank Sinatra, you going up and straightening out my greek boss who wanted to take me to greek town and not tell you ( I still don't know what you did, but I can Imagine), dancing in the kitchen to Mony Mony with you with your little thumbs in your pants shaking your buns, me saying something stupid and you throwing your slippers at me or coming to smack me and me saying "i'm sorry, i'm sorry', and that always working to have you forgive me, your utter happiness at seeing my engagement ring, your love for darrel because of his love for me, your loving Dad when he let you down, your loving bill when he let you down, your loving cheryl when she let you down, your loving me when I let you down...My only wish today and forever is that you know that you are the anchor in our family that has holds us together, the strong matriarch of the Feykes family that always looked out for her pack, that would NEVER ever let someone hurt one of us without the mama bear striking out. You are the best wife a man could hope for, the best MOTHER a daughter or son could hope for and when I get married and have a child or two of my own, I can only hope to be half as good as a mother as you are to us. I will always try to make you proud, and when I don't i know you will send a message from heaven telling me that it is okay, just try again, I will tell your grandchildren all about you, your life your heritage and how much they would have loved you, I promise you that I will look after Dad for you, he is already lost without you, but please do not fret, we will take care of your man as best as we can, I will try to help bill in his problems and try to make him into the son you can be proud of, I will watch over your baby cheryl and always be there for her. I will always be there for all of them, and I will always keep your spirit alive by reminding everyone of what you gave, you gave yourself wholely, unselfishly for the 4 of us, and though I feel we weren't so deserving, you felt we were, i will continue to feed bubba when I can get away with it, I will smell her paws and send that smell to heaven so you to can smell them. I will never ever forget your love, your power, and all you have given to me which I will pass on to my children and grandchildren. Although I had them play "A time to say goodbye" at your funeral, I will never say goodbye to you, you live within me every day. Everyone said "you look just like your mother" at the funeral, and if there was ever anything that could have eased my pain slightly that was it. I am so proud to look like you, to act like you, to fight like you and to love like you. You will live on through me and all of us in our actions and words. YOU ARE MISSED MORE THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE, AND IT HAS ONLY BEEN 5 DAYS. THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES US SMILE IS KNOWING THAT YOUR PLAYING POKER WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GAROFALO AND UNCLE JOE. YOUR PLAYING BUNCO WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA FEYKES. YOUR RIDING A ROLLER COASTER WITH UNCLE LEE AND YOUR PETTING PAL AND CINDY AND CINDY E. LAST BUT NOT LEAST YOU PLAYING THE "WHEEL OF FORTUNE" AND GETTING A SPIN ON EVERY PLAY.

I LOVE YOU MOM AND IT KILLS ME TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE GONE. IT IS SO HARD, SO I ASK YOU AGAIN TO PLEASE SEND US SOME STRENGTH TO EASE THIS HOLE THAT WILL NEVER BE FILLED.

I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW AND ALWAYS WILL.

WELLA

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