Janice Parsons

Dear Aunt Jan,

I hope you know you were always my favorite aunt..please don't tell the others! It took my to long to discover that you had passed away. You were always so kind to me: offering encouragement, putting up with my hyperactivity with unending patience and understanding.

Please know that I will always love you and cherish the memories that I was privileged enough to share of you! God speed to you special lady.

Love, Scott

My Nana....after loving you so very much all our time together I never really believed I could love another woman. We grew up together, had our children together and lived our wonderful lives together. Remember how we talked of having charmed lives? And then I lost you...a loss which burned to my core. Therapy taught me that my physical life with you had ended, that all that remained were memories and our children and their children.

I have been so lonely since I lost you...our...

My Janice...it has been 18 months and I just made it through your 63rd birthday. This one was harder on me than your last one. I don't have any relationships going as I miss you too much still. You spoiled me for anyone else, I think. I get to watch Powell, Blake and Bennett this week..I enjoy being with them so much...I know how much you loved them too which makes it even better. It's hard for me to accept what has happened to us as being natural...our lives were so wonderful together...

My darling Nana....it has been so long since you left me...I had a bench installed at the Senior Center in your memory and we will dedicate it next Sunday. Remember how I worried about our leaving nothing behind for people to be reminded that we existed? I went to see it today and it is lovely..I had them carve "...maybe she is a butterfly..." on it, from Jeannine Nelson's poem she wrote about you.

I'm having lots of flashbacks of our 45 years together, Nana...when Toby was born,...

My darling Baby Girl...it's now been a year and four days since you died. I honestly can't believe my life has gone on without you. I remember how wonderful our lives were together, how I loved being with you. I miss you so very much, Jannie. It seemed like we would go on forever...our lives were almost enchanted until you left us.

I think of you every day and wonder how you are....I am in a hospice group to help me understand that you are now a memory and we are no longer a...

My little darling...you left us 11 months ago today. When I see your picture I can't believe it has been so long. Over 330 nights without you. I'm still so very lonely for you. I hope your heaven is as wonderful as we hoped it would be for you. I had a great trip to NYC with Dawn, Toby and our boys..it brought back memories of our times there together. We saw the Gates, and I told Carol about them when we got back. She, Kit and Bev all think of you often.

I love you, Nana.
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My darling girl....Christmas is over...my first without you in over 42 years. I miss all your decorations but couldn't put them up. Thank God for Dawn, Toby and our boys...the boys came to stay Christmas night and I loved it. I had two weeks vacation left so took 3 days of it...not sure why, as I'm doing nothing without you here.

I hope you are aware of us here as I think of you all the time. I just don't know how people get through the death of a spouse after having such a...

My Dolly...we had Thanksgiving here Thursday...it was so good to have family around me. I missed you terribly but know you were watching over us. I'm not anxious to put up a tree for Xmas without you..you always decorated it so well...maybe I'll do a tiny tree on the table.

I still find it so hard to accept that I'll not see you again in this life...looking at pictures of us living our lives and then 'poof' and you're gone and it has ended. I will love you forever, Janice...

My little Janice...it's been over seven months now and tomorrow is our 42nd anniversary. Remember Reverend Bynum in Chesterfield? We made such a wonderful life together all those years. Thank you for your love. I miss you so very much. I hope you're looking down on me because I think of you every minute.

I love you, my Darling Janice.

Your lover Tom.