Marjorie Gertrude "Margie" Kinchla

To my Mom and Dad on their October Birthdays 2025 Raising nine children was no small job. The first child, Margie Ann was born in 1946 and the last Michael was born October 1,1963 (Mom's Birthday). I have concluded that the best things in life come last and there's a case to prove that point. I go to work everyday and I tell myself "the best things in life come last". But that's just me, I am sure there are people that would disagree with that thought. Regardless, this is your time. I get a...

Hello Mom... Happy Birthday... You have a brand new little great grandchild Eloise Rose.... We all can't stop thinking of you and Dad. You are still the two most important people in our lives along with our Kinchla (John and Anna) and Whelan (John and Rosalie) Grandparents. The love doesn't stop because you are not with us anymore. Quite the opposite... I think the love grows stronger because we have had time to think about all the sacrifices and love you all provided to us as children...

There are some people that were raised to share and then there are others and they have no clue. The idea that a possession could be shared is just plain foreign to them. I am fortunate to have had a mother that reminded me to share. She encouraged us all to share but it's likely the lesson was absorbed by some and not by others. Sadly in this day and age when there are very few families with an intact/nuclear mother and father and no more than 1 or 2 children, the concept of sharing is an...

In Memoriam to my Dad and Mom January 28,2024 The legendary Jim Valvano coach of the 1983 NCAA Basketball Team at North Carolina State once gave a speech to the Million Dollar Roundtable Club where he spoke about what motivates him each day, his success, failure and inspiration. He spoke about his Mother and Father. He spoke about competing in the NCAA Tournament and how his Father would always say that "his bags were packed". "You'll make it". The speech is well worth listening to. In...

Tomorrow will be my Mother's 102nd Birthday. I am fortunate to still have dreams at night and many times I wake up laughing. I am not going to share the content of those dreams but they do remind me of my many happy moments with both my Mother and my Father. I remember my Mother as being irrepressible... the definition of which is "lively and energetic and never seems to be depressed". I remember my Mother being that way when I was a child and I remember her being that way even into her last...

Mom ..... On the year of your 101st Birthday...We still all think of you and love you. You are missed. John

It's just days before my own birthday and since I have been recently spending time in the company of small children, I wondered what my parents must have thought when I arrived in their world?! My mother was 26 and my Dad was 27 and here I am just this little person that likely fit in the palms of their hands. My Dad just three years removed from 4 years of war in the Navy. And my Mother now with two children under age 3 years. I think about my parents a lot, because they were remarkable...

Mom....Happy 100th Birthday. You live on in all our memories and there isn.t a day that I don't think to make you proud. You and Dad were the best of parents. How many others could ever say they never heard a curse word nor saw their parent(s) intoxicated??! But I can. You and Dad were the best examples of parents and we love you and continue to love you both, John

It's Friday, two days before Mothers Day and they just played "Taps" marking the end of the day here in the dry mountain air of Colorado in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave". "Taps" reminds me that I need to be appreciative and hard working. When it is played everyday at the end of the day, I often think of you and Dad and I am proud. There is no achievement without effort and effort directed towards good brings joy.