Cleveland Shipman Jr.

Sometimes I sit and wonder how life would be with you here with us today and just break down. I wish you could see how much I've grown you would be so proud of me. I wish I could give you one more hug, one more kiss and one more goodbye. I know you're still here with me sometimes when I'm having bad days it's like I can feel you hugging me telling me everything is going to be alright. I love and miss you so much Uncle Blue. As a close friend told me There's holes in the floor of heaven. So I...

You will be missed by your entire love ones for all the things that you have brought to ours lives and more...

REST IN PEACE BRO. SHIPMAN YOUR SISTER AT ENSLEY CHURCH OF CHRIST ...MAY GOD BE WITH YOUR FAMILY AT THIS TIME.

When I first moved to Birmingham back in 1990 and got a job teaching Industrial Arts, Shipman was one of the shop teachers that really helped me out and showed me what to do in the school system. He was always a friend that I could depend on. He would come by my home and help me repair things and he would always talk to me when I needed someone to talk to.He was a friend that I loved very much. Shipman, I will miss you. I will see you in heaven some day.

I got a glimpse of you today, my brothers. I looked around in blessed quietness and saw such beautiful things that reminded me of you...an elementary school day picture...a beautiful smile, a family heirloom, a picnic basket filled with chicken, an old quilt, and a drop of rain from heaven. What tenderness and warmth I felt when God allowed me today to get a glimpse of my two beloved brothers, Rick and Blue! Peace satisfied my angered soul today. At this moment I knew that my brothers...

My uncle "BLUE",

I'm just not believing how ironic it is that exactly three years and a day of your passing we lost my dad (Rickey "Pernell" Shipman). My dad was battling cancer since I was six years old and you were the one that stepped in from time to time to help in any way you could. You were the one that would come and fix things around the house, you were the one that would come and attend church with the family, you were the one that would come and take us shopping with you, and...