Starla Marlene Taliaferro

Dear Mom,

We miss you so much and you would be so proud of your grandchildren Joshua and Jaiden the granddaughter you always wanted. Jaiden is sad that she never had the opportunity to meet you in person. I take her with me sometimes to your gravesite to say how much I miss you.

Our family has never been the same especially around the holidays. As you already know life is not the same with Frances, Granny and You gone. I pray you are at peace and in the beautiful...

Mike, Boys and Hazel:

I think of Starla so often ,even i am surprised. We used to laugh so often at the times we would think of each other for about a week and then one of us would call. I miss that call!

We were friends since birth, is what we always said. My parents bought her baby bed when I was born. I always teased her since she was a whole year older! We went through grade school as best friends, then through jr high and then on to highschool. We had our ups and...

Mike and boys,
My prayers and love to you..I am so sorry. Hazel, I cannot imagine your pain, I loved her too! Friends from 7th grade in Lawton, from the pillow fights & slumber parties, marriages, kids & even though we settled in different parts of the country, we remained close.I'm sorry to say I had not talked to her for awhile,but prayed with her after her surgery, and spoke only once after. I was recoverig from surgery when I found out about her death on my b'day...

It is times such as this that we all sit back and think about life. Maybe we think about our own life or someone very close to us. We ask, what it is all about? I have to say, it is about the mark that one leaves on the lives of others. I know a very small part of the life of Starla, only having met her just a few short years ago. But it is very evident in her family as well as the words left here, the legacy that she has left behind.

It was a lesson for me in being a part of this...

Dear Starla,
I've been avoiding saying goodbye because I hate goodbyes, but I realized that I needed some closure since I couldn't make your funeral. I just made a trip back to Buffalo and you weren't there for me to stop and visit. Somehow I knew after that last visit 12/07 when I left for Florida, that would be the last time I saw you alive. I cried all the way home that day. There are so many memories! I can picture your face like it was yesterday the day you held your grandson Joshua...

Dear Daughter Starla,

How I miss you, but your suffering is gone, that was so sad. Your boys were there for you, helping to make you feel some joy and Mike was there as well. You will always be in our hearts, and losing Frances we were all there as a family. We are close. Tracy is such a help and caring too. I wish all peace and love in God's world. I feel so comfortable with you which pleased me. I was always proud of you!

Love Mother

My mother only found out about Starla's passing days ago and is greiving. Her wish is that she'd have told Starla how much she loved her and how much she'd meant to her before she passed.

God Bless this woman, and the family of this woman who meant so much to so many people. My love to this woman who loved my mother through thirty plus years of friendship, and to her husband and sons who made Starla's life happy and fulfilled.

Peace, prayers, and fond memories to the entire...

I am so sorry for you loss. Aunt Linda (as I called her when I was little), was beautiful inside and out. I remember her well. I hadn't talked to her or seen her in years. I know she helped my dad, Trevor, connect with a long lost cousin, while she was helping him with some geneology information in recent years. He was very grateful, as I am, for that. I will keep you guys in my prayers and once again, I am so sorry.
Love,
Charlotte Hagler Stephens