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Debbie Salyards Obituary

DEBBIE ANN SALYARDS, born December 22, 1960 to Robert Brandeau Salyards and Jeanette Arlene Willkens in Lake Jackson, Texas, died March 15, 2004 in Shepherd, Texas at the age of 43. Debbie loved her friends and was known as a fun-loving person, kind hearted, who had the ability to get close to people. Debbie will be remembered as a loving mother who created fun in the lives of her children. Ms. Salyards is survived by her parents; daughters, Nickle Pineda and her husband, Pablo, of Austin, Texas and Jacky Ann Mitcham of Cleveland, Texas; sisters, Arlene Rachel McQueen of Houston, Texas, Rita Kelley of Shepherd, Texas, April Salyards of Virginia and Melissa Johnston and her husband, John, of Jacksonville, Texas; grandchildren, Mia Jade Pineda and Nina Simone Pineda; special niece, Christian Dooley of Shepherd, Texas as well as other nieces and nephews; and her Best Friend and Soulmate, Roy Hanson of Willis, Texas. Visitation will be 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at Kingwood Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. at Kingwood Funeral Home with Brother Lonnie Mitcham officiating. Interment will follow in Conroe Memorial Park.

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Published by Houston Chronicle on Mar. 17, 2004.

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Arlene

March 11, 2025

Still missing you.

Arlene Walker

March 15, 2024

They say that time heals all wounds. It doesn´t. You took a huge part of me with you. I still love you.

Arlene Walker

January 25, 2019

I still miss you,

Krystal Hansen

April 3, 2004

There are so many memories that I have of you that will be forever imbeded in my mind and heart.I love you like I love my mother and I wish you were here to make me laugh.

Nickle Flannery

March 23, 2004

Mother, here is a poem by Maya Angelou that comforts me now, I Love You more than you could ever know:



When great trees fall,

rocks on distant hills shudder,

lions hunker down in tall grasses,

and even elephants

lumber after safety.



When great trees fall

in forests,

small things recoil into silence,

their senses

eroded beyond fear.



When great souls die,

the air around us becomes

light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly,

see with

a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened,

examines,

gnaws on kind words

unsaid,

promised walks

never taken.



Great souls die and

our reality, bound to

them, takes leave of us.

Our souls,

dependent upon their

nurture,

now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed

and informed by their

radiance,

fall away.

We are not so much maddened

as reduced to the unutterable ignorance

of dark, cold

caves.



And when great souls die,

after a period peace blooms,

slowly and always

irregularly. Spaces fill

with a kind of

soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never

to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. Be and be

better. For they existed.

-Maya Angelou

I Love You Mother, Nikki

ARLENE MCQUEEN

March 22, 2004

I LOVE YOU.

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