John R. Carlson

Happy New Year, John !!! I am so glad to see 2025 come to an end, with 2026 being the beginning of a "healthier new year". Please keep your precious blue eyes watching over me and send a little extra of your heavenly strength to assist me through the days ahead ! I love and miss you, John, so very much ... with all of my heart and soul, now and forever !!!!!

Merry Christmas, Sweetheart! A quiet holiday season for me. Things just aren´t the same when those we love most are not here to share them with. I look up to the sky wishing I was there with you.

John, Today is the twentieth anniversary of my losing you ... I remember each and every moment of 12/04/05. I´m overwhelmed just thinking about it !!! No one here understands how deeply my grief remains...but you totally understand my inner feelings. You knew me better than anyone ... and I remain grateful for that to this very day. I have and will continue to love you forever with all of my heart and soul !!! Wrap me within your heavenly embrace, giving me the strength to keep going on...

Happy #80, John !!!!! Not in very good condition to complete this birthday message but promise to complete this when message when I can. Love you either way, shape and form possible ....with all of my heart and soul !!!!!!

Merry Christmas, Sweetheart !!! It´s a "Hug Fest" up there this year ... wish it was that way down here. Wish we could go back to the Last Christmas Dinner at Green Lake. Family is soooo important ! Miss you all so much this Christmas Day !!!!

December 4, 2024 Sweetheart, Another year has gone by having to live on memories ... Twenty years ago you purchased a gold band that still sits on my finger, I have never taken it off. In my heart and soul, you will always remain. So many years spent "hiding US" from everyone, seems so unfortunate now. Fifty two years ago we met. You the big, strong bricklayer and me the simple little customer service clerk. You in your blue jeans and flannel shirt and me in my pink pinafore...

June 2, 2024 Hi Honey ! Just a quick note today. This weekend was Donna´s Celebration of Life activities in Illinois and Wisconsin. Saturday family and friends gathered at the church that Donna and Larry have been so involved with the last two decades. Donna was "The Hugger" for this community and will be sorely missed by the congregation. This afternoon , Sunday, everyone gathered together at Weiser Cemetary in Princeton for Donna´s burial. She now rests peacefully with you, Roy and...

May 24, 2024 Hey Big Fella !!! Another Memorial Day weekend is upon us and you know what this means. Eighteen years ago was our final Memorial Day ... I can remember almost every moment from our departure from Sky Harbor Airport, to our arrival at O´Hare Airport, to our overnight visit at Donna Nobles house, to our final visit to Peterson-Webner bakery then onto our final trip to The Lake House for your Celebration of Life Barbecue and my return trip back to Arizona. What a weekend it was...

April 11, 2024 Happy 79th Birthday, John !!! When you lose someone, you don´t lose them all at once and their dying doesn´t stop with their death. You lose them a thousand times, in a thousand ways and say a thousand goodbyes. After I lost you, time no longer makes sense. Time flies by, but it also feels like yesterday all of the time. Memories come and go and sights and sounds from years pasts breeze by me. All the time and sometimes, never enough. I miss you so much, John, and that...