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Rayney
5 hours ago
I finally took apart the photo boards we made for your funeral. Some of the pictures lost their wax backs to tape and time (eighteen years today), but I cherish them nonetheless.
This morning I rummaged through the ziplock freezer bag I keep em in and again found myself weepy - not surprised, not distraught - I´ve seen all these before. I know all these memories, have shared them besides poetry and obituary and memorials and birthdays and moments I felt you woulda liked to have seen, shoulda been there for.
This morning the sun beamed a little brighter over one in particular - you on the back steps with us twins in your belly and a face that says "this is all I´ve ever wanted, this is exactly where I am meant to be."
While you didn´t get to feel that in our realm very long, I hope you feel it still. I will feel it for you.
I love you mommy Zelia.
Gary valleau
Yesterday
18 years with out you . It seems like a life time ago . But never have you left my mind or my heart Zelia . You were and always will be the love of my life , always and forever
Rayn
September 13, 2024
Happy birthday in heaven to my mommy Zelia-
I know you woulda been beautiful at 60- still ferociously hilarious, still impossibly soft- you´d never let the world take away that sensitive part of you, which I could say was, is, all of you- nobody could change that.
I was talking to daddy last week, wondering how many of your birthdays were on Friday the 13th. I never got my answer, there´s things I can google, I can talk to daddy and your sisters about, but there´s some things only you coulda told me. What did you do for your twenty sixth birthday? What would have you done for your 50th?
I wish we were together today. I wish we were eating peanut butter fudge cake at Aunt Laura´s on Framingham lane. I wish you were sitting in aunt Vicky´s lap. I wish you and daddy were hugging in the kitchen you so lovingly and painstakingly designed. I wish you could hug Chris again, even in a dream. I miss seeing you in dreams.
I hope you know everyone who knows me knows you - all of you that I am able to carry and share. I will never shut up about you- you are in every poem, every mirror, every heart I come close enough to touch. I love you mommy, always and forever, forever and always.
Xoxo your Rainey
Victoria
September 13, 2024
Dearest Zelia,
Ten years ago, I posted about how fabulous you would have been at 50....
It doesn't seem possible that 10 more years have passed without you in the world. And today you would have been 60, and even more fabulous!
It is heartbreaking to think about all the things you have missed in these 17 years and to wonder about all you would have done these years had you still been with us in more than spirit.
My sweet Bubby girl, you were a loving, beautiful-in-every-way person who deserved to live a long and fruitful life.
I wish I could be standing with you tonight as you blow out the candles on your cake.
I love and miss you more and more as the years pass.
Happy 60th Birthday...
Love,
Vicky
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Rainey
July 17, 2024
Today marks 17 years without you mommy - but I know I am never truly without you.
You are the rose gardens, the embers, the crows, the lyrics written before you came and after you left.
"You are a thousand winds that blow, the diamond glint of snow"
You are my mommy forever and always, tsking softly, guiding gently, loving fully
Love your Rainey,
always always always
Gary Valleau
July 17, 2024
Zelia we lost you today 17 years ago . I´ve relived that day many times in my head . But in my heart the loop never stops playing . I love you and miss you Zelia . Even tough this world keeps spinning and moving forward , in my heart it stopped 17 years ago
Rainey
September 13, 2023
Happy birthday to the most loved angel.
"I´ll love you forever, I´ll like you for always, as long I´m living my Mommy you´ll be"
Gary valleau
September 13, 2023
Zelia , happy birthday babe . I´m having trouble grasping how many years ago that you left us . 2007 seems like life times ago but you have never left my heart . One day or 1000 years I will always love that look aid smile
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2023
Happy Birthday to my Bubby Girl...
I love you so much and miss you even more...
I wrote the following on your Birthday in 2007, the year we lost you, and it still true today...
My Dearest Zelia,
It is your birthday today, Bubby girl. But it is anything but happy for me. Today, like everyday for the past couple of years, I woke thinking of you first thing. And though, as Gary wrote, and as I believe in my heart, you are here with us in many, many ways, I feel such an intense sadness and emptiness everyday that you have been gone, it is almost unbearable (I cannot even imagine what it must be like for the children). Today is even worse. So I came here to write, because I don't know what else to do.
Here is what I'd like to be doing:
~Having a big party to celebrate YOU, like we did last September
~Going to Gurney's for a day of beauty, like we did in April
~Holding your hand
~Watching you flit from room-to-room showing me your latest project
~Hearing your laughter
~Seeing your smile
~Handing you a screwdriver as you are hanging my bedroom curtains
~Delighting in your happiness when Santa Claus arrives on Christmas Eve to surprise the children
~Dancing with you--even though you made fun of me!
~Standing in your beautiful kitchen opening a bottle of Santa Margherita
~Having you sit on my lap like you did last Fall at one of our girl's nights at your house, so I can breath you in and feel you close to me
~Ordering the stuffed eggplant with you at Paula Jean's
~Calling you on the phone
~Any one of a million things, so long as you are there.
But instead, I wrote this message, and I will look at your pictures, hear your voice, take mental journeys to the times we shared...and cry some of the tears that I held inside trying to be strong for you.
As I was ordering an urn yesterday to keep the last vestiges of your physical self near to me, I thought about what you wrote to me on my birthday this year: "I really do love you"...
Well, I really do love you, too...
Happy Birthday...
Vicky
Rainey
May 14, 2023
Happy Mother´s Day mommy
Once upon a time time we were pullin onion grass and kissing mirrors - you made the world warm enough for any and everyone close enough to see your smile.
People say you would be so proud of me but I hope you know I am so proud of you ; of all you built, have been, all the magic you lassoed till it filled all of the bellies and arms of the north shore- and further, I see your love in strangers from Sacramento, from Massachusetts, Avoca and Honesdale. I know my cats would love you like all the animals did- and do, when you visit as the pigeons coo or blooming baby yellow roses.
I love you oceans and oceans
Gary
May 14, 2023
Happy Mother's Day Zelia . I know you are so very proud of Chris and Miranda . Give them a kiss on their hearts today . Love and miss you
gary valleau
September 15, 2022
Zelia , I know if you had a wish to come true , it would be to come and give us all just one more hug , share one more laugh . Your wish comes true each day , the suns warmth , a cold rain & a gentle rain are all the hugs I get each and every day . Each time I hear Miranda and Chris laugh is you laughing thru them . Happy Birthday Z , I miss you and love you no less then I did 15 years ago
rayney
September 14, 2022
Up to the sky, around the moon, down to the deepest ocean, and back again, always and forever, more than life itself
I hold you with me everyday, everywhere
Thank you for sending me so many angels, for your smile, for this ability to love endlessly
Happy birthday mommy
Xo raindrop
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2022
Dearest Bubby Girl,
Another year without you and it doesn´t ever get easier.
I spoke with Rayn last night. I know you are so proud of her, now a graduate student, making her way in the world on her terms, like you did.
And Chris, when he´s not traveling the world with Ty, a very sweet young woman, he´s following Adrienne´s footsteps working in clinical research at MSK.
They are unique and wonderful just like you, and carrying within them all of your love and goodness.
A big year for all of us, with Adrienne´s wedding and a new baby due! Yes, Eva will be a mother soon!
I know you´ll be watching over her and Baby Olivia, sending her your motherly instinct and love.
There´s so much more to say, but for now I´ll just say Happy Birthday, Bubby girl!
Right now you are sitting on my lap in your kitchen and I´m holding you close, never wanting to let you go...
With love and more love,
Vicky
Gary valleau
July 17, 2022
Zelia , 15 years has now past . Thousands of laughs , tears , people in and out of our lives . But never have you ever left my heart or soul . I will always love you & always miss you . To the moon and back
Rainey
May 9, 2022
Hi mommy
I miss you. I sometimes forget memories and I get scared I don´t have them anymore- and that feels like drowning, until after a couple of days something happy will pop up, hearing you say "I love you more than life itself" , the rhythm of it, the husk of your Long Island accent sounds like sunbeams. I wish we could take more photos. I´m trying to learn not to be unhappy, because that´s not what you would have wanted, but this time of year is so hard. Today is Jan´s day, you and her have the same middle name. Yesterday was Mother´s Day and Kay´s Birthday (they´re a Taurus like Gio and Aunt Kathy.) I found some photos on discs that I´m going to have printed, some from when you and daddy renewed your vows, and really everyone was there. You are so loved always mommy. All I hear about you is empathy, laughter, beauty and brains. I want you to know you did everything in the best ways you could and that I love you, and that I know you love me, and you love Chris and Dad and everyone else who got to be around you, they were all so lucky. Thinking of you always, Rainey
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2021
Happy Birthday, my Bubby Girl...
My heart aches for you, every day...
I miss you more than words could ever convey.
I know you are with us.
I'm holding you close now... smelling your perfume, hearing your laughter, watching your eyes dance with excitement...
A few weeks ago, I met some people who had the pleasure of knowing you. It was so wonderful to hear them speaking about you with such fondness. Universally loved, you were and always will be.
Your children are amazing, truly!
Not a day goes by...
I love you, sweet girl.
V
Carl Rant
July 18, 2021
Always missing you. It gives me great comfort knowing you´ll look after our Carley until we get there
Rainey
July 17, 2021
Hi momma
you made a home of heaven 14 years ago today, and I´ve spent every moment after thinking of you- not just today, not just big and sad- when we´d make Mother´s Day cards in class or daddy would take me prom dress shopping, but every little happy time too, when I spot a blue jay, when someone tells a really dumb joke you would have loved.
I´ve been writing about you a lot again, really I don´t think I´ve ever stop, and I never want to. You are a lot of different things to me now; a poem, lady bugs and butterflies, rain after the heatwave, Chanel °5, a really good recipe for chicken marsala. These things might sound silly to anyone who wasn´t lucky enough to know you. I just wish I was lucky for a little bit longer.
When you passed away, I was 8 and I never thought I´d make it past 14. I never thought I´d see 12. But now I am 22, and even though you haven´t been here for 14 years, you really never left. You are all around me and beside me, always guiding, always protecting. You were always resilient, and you´ve instilled that within me- us, me and Chris, daddy, your sisters and nieces and nephews, every single person whose told me "your mother was my best friend" - and they all really meant it. you were a hell of a thing to lose. Please take care of uncle glen in heaven mommy.
we love you always, up to the sun, around the moon, down to the deepest ocean, and back again.
Love, Rainey
Gary Valleau
July 17, 2021
14 years since the day God open His arms to welcome you into His home. Even after all that time , never were you forgotten, never were you stopped being loved . I couldn´t ask for a more loving Angel watching over Miranda , Christopher or my self . I know you are as proud as I am of our children. Each reaching the goals that they strived for . Each keeping you so close in their hearts . Each becoming the young adults that would keep that kool aid smile upon your face shinning brighter the the sun itself . Zelia , I will always love you , always miss you , always wish I had even just one more day with you . So much has changed since , but never how much you are loved .
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2020
Bubby Girl,
Another birthday missing you and wondering what your life would be like now if you hadn’t been taken from us so long ago.
You were just starting a career in real estate, which I know you would have excelled at, after all, who gets flowers from their very first customer! You were finishing up your home renovation, which surely would be undergoing a third remodel by now, and raising Miranda and Chris, who have grown into wonderful people filled with your spirit, beauty, intelligence, and creativity.
I think about how much love, joy, and laughter you would have brought into all of our lives. And about the many adventures, celebrations, and sorrows, we would have shared and how much better life would be with you here.
So much to wonder about. But not a day goes by that I don’t think of you, feel your presence, and hear your laughter.
Very grateful for the years we had together.
Always in our hearts and minds.
We love you.
Gary Valleau
September 13, 2020
Happy Birthday Zelia , 13 times I have written that since you were taken from us . You would think it would get easier , even with life’s changes Re marriages , more loss & the continuous circle that life brings us . But it doesn’t get easier , it doesn’t get softer and the same tears fall from my eyes . Happy Birthday Zelia , love you too the moon ... ps give our new angel a kiss ❤
Miranda
September 13, 2020
Happy birthday in heaven mommy. You are my moon and stars, my forever sun. You would be 56 today and I can imagine how beautiful you would be, your hair would have grown out so nice and long again how you liked it. I know you are celebrating in heaven and we’re celebrating your life here today. I will never forget you, how could I? My friend told me my smile lights up the room and is contagious and it made me so happy because that’s what everyone says about you. I love you mommy xoxo rainey
Gary Valleau
July 17, 2020
Zelia , 13 years ago you were called up to Him . To this day we all still feel not only the pain and loneliness but we still feel the love . The love you had for life , laughter and love. But even more importantly The love you have for Miranda and Christopher and my self has never waned from our hearts .
Gary Valleau
May 10, 2020
Happy Mother's Day Zelia . Today will be even harder . not only do I keep you in my heart each and everyday and hurt with each memory. But now we say good bye to a special gift you sent me . Janice was all things you would have wanted in a person to be a part of our children's lives . She loved them as she loved her own . Her strengths , her determination and her love gave me such happiness . Even though the time was short , my love & my admiration gave me another lifetime of memories and moments that won't be forgotten .So Zelia I'm sure Janice has already hugged you for all of us . And now I have two beautiful angels looking over us ♥♥
Rainey Valleau
May 9, 2020
Hi mommy
Tomorrow is Mother's Day and I'm thinking of you, I'm always thinking of you. Today hospice is coming for Jan, and I know you are going to take care of her in heaven. She has loved us the way you have wanted us to be loved. We wanted to make her last years as meaningful and full of love and life as possible, just how we wanted for you. No one will ever replace you, you will always be my mommy and you will always have daddy's heart, and I know you understand. Thank you for gifting us with this opportunity. It's so hard saying goodbye, and everything reminds us of you, but it doesn't change how we remember you. Remember when we went to Disney and you let us sit on your lap on the motor chair even when the park employees told you couldn't? I remember our communion and how happy you were, And when you and daddy renewed your vows, how you and daddy danced in aunt Laura's backyard. Remember tearing down walls and painting the bathroom floor with aunt Kathy, and when all of us went to see Wicked with aunt Laura and aunt Vicky and we had our special girls trip, I will always remember the good times during the hard times. Thank you for being so strong mommy, thank you for looking down on us and protecting us always. I can't believe we are going through this again but I know things will be okay and you will guide us out of the dark, how you always do. I love you up to the sky, around the moon, down to the deepest ocean, and back again.
Happy Mother's Day mommy
Gary Valleau
January 15, 2020
Sometimes life gets in the way of living , but nothing got in the way of living more then losing you . It seemed like I was stuck , forever reliving the day you passed . I see it in Miranda and Christopher as well . But as we get ready to celebrate their 21st birthday , I really dont believe thats what you wanted for them or me . You were too full of life , too filled with love to want that for us . I believe you wanted your children to grow , and grow they did . They both are great people , each achieving every goal placed before them . I know how proud you are of them and I know youve always had your arms wrapped around them . They love you as you have loved them . Guides their hearts to grow in living ... to the moon and back
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2019
Happy Birthday, My Dearest Bubby Girl.
55 today, and gone too long, but still laughing that laugh in my ears, and rolling your eyes like you did, and just being your unique and beautiful self.
This year, as I mentioned, you were beside us at Eva's wedding. And then in August, Jasmynne and CJ posted a picture of Ariana Rae, the newest member of our family, and there you were!
I saw you in her sweet little smile, and so did Laura.
You continue to shine through Miranda and Chris (simply amazing people--a true gift to us), and in all of our hearts, and now through Ariana's smile.
Zelia Marie, you will always live in my heart.
I love you and miss you so much.
V
Victoria Spears
July 17, 2019
Sweet Bubby Girl...
A dozen years.
We've all cried so many tears missing you, but to no avail...
That you are with Mommy and Daddy and Clay is our only consolation.
And we know you are witnessing all of the joys and sorrows we have experienced these years, all of which would have been made better, or easier to bear, if you were here.
Celebrating Eva's wedding last month,I was reminded of yours, and mine, and how young we were.
Miranda showed up in NYC chic, radiant, like you, Zelia, dancing all night with Gio and all of us. Chris was, as usual, his handsome best, with a delightful sparkle in his eye...all you.
Kathy remembered her bachelorette party and some table dancing!
We all felt your presence.
I thought about you continually... and miss you more than words can describe.
I love you, always have, always will.
V
Gary Valleau
July 14, 2019
7-14-07 , 12 years since we renewed our vows , 12 years since the last time we danced ... Happy anniversary Zelia . I will always love you . I will always see your smile in Christopher and Miranda's faces . I will also always miss you ...♥
Chris Valleau
July 13, 2019
Hey mom,
Its been a long time since I posted anything on here and July is here so a bunch of emotion are stirring up for Rainey, dad, and I. I just wanna say that I love you so much. Not a day goes by that you dont affect the way I live my life. We miss you so much and I want you to know that we always will. I love you
Miranda Valleau
May 12, 2019
Happy Mothers day mommy
Today its raining and everything is different this year, just like every year, everything is constantly changing, but youre still gone and I still think about you everyday. I love you. I wish we took more photos together.
xoxo rainey
Gary Valleau
December 17, 2018
So many changes , so many things have become different.The days months and years have come and gone but you have stayed the same . The same smile , the same laugh . The same feeling I get when I think of you . All that has stayed frozen in my mind ,heart and soul . Nothing can erase it , change it or alter it . I carry you and the love I have for you with me forever . To the moon and back Zelia , to the moon and back.
Rainey
December 13, 2018
Up to the sky, around the moon, down into the deepest ocean, and back again, forever and always I love you mommy
Miranda Valleau
October 12, 2018
I love you mommy
gary valleau
September 13, 2018
Today you celebrate your 54th birthday in Heaven . In my mind , I still see your big beautiful smile . Never aging , never changing . Always young , laughing and full of life . No amount of time can erase it or change it . Its the image of you that I will always carry with me and cherish forever . Happy birthday Zelia .
Love you
Gary
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2018
Happy Birthday, Bubby Girl.
I love and miss you so very much.
It never gets easier.
That you live on through Miranda and Christopher, your gift to us and the world, is our only consolation.
With love always,
Vicky
Miranda Valleau
August 3, 2018
Ive been thinking of you a lot mommy (even praying every day) I know youre watching over our whole family and youre going to protect and guide us every step of the way. I love you so much
Miranda Valleau
July 17, 2018
11 years ago you went to heaven and everything is different without you but I know you arent sick anymore and youre watching over our family. youre aways on my mind and july is always rough but I feel you here with me. I love you always mommy
Gary Valleau
July 17, 2018
Victoria Spears
July 17, 2018
Eleven years ago, a light went out in the world when you were taken from us way too soon.
But somehow, the light of you is still blazing strong in our hearts and minds, today and always.
We miss you and love you, Bubby Girl.
Gary Valleau
July 17, 2018
Zelia , 11 years in Heaven , 11 years missing you , 11 years thinking of you , 11 years without you here with us . You have never been forgotten and our love for you has never diminished . You have been and always will be the biggest part of our lives . Life has changed so much in these years , but loving you never has . I know you have always watched over Miranda, Christopher and I , for I feel you each and every day . I Love you Zelia and thank you ...❤
July 3, 2018
Zelia , life is passing by so fast . Kids are growing into adults and are achieving all they set out to do . I think of you every day , my heart hurts everytime I see you in Miranda"s smile and Christophers eyes . Time can not heal our loss Zelia , we love you and miss you each and every day
Chris Valleau
July 2, 2018
I miss you a lot, Mommy. I hope that you are looking down on Rainey and I and are proud of us. Everything I do I hope you are proud of. I love you more than life itself. I'll be with you one day again, it may not be for a long time, but I promise ill see you again. I love you
Miranda Valleau
June 14, 2018
Mommy,
no ones wrote to you since your birthday but I think of you every day, I believe that everyone else has to be thinking of you too. you are impossible to forget, and I never want to. I think you would be happy to hear aunt lauras grandson call me Rainey. I love you up to the moon, around the stars, down to the deepest ocean and back again, always and forever.
gary valleau
September 14, 2017
Happy Birthday Zelia , we have been in a whirl wind of change here with the twins going off to make their mark on the world at college and getting your beautiful house sold and moving into the pa house . No matter where each of us are in this world , not a second goes by that you are not thought of , embraced , loved and missed so terrible much . We all love you Zelia and will hold on to your memory forever in our hearts
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2017
Dearest Zelia,
Another birthday we are apart. They don't get any easier.
This year, you'd be an empty nester, with the twins off to college! How proud we all are of them...
You gave them a strong foundation of love and wisdom to grow on, and they carry with them your brilliance, joyful spirit, determination, and fortitude...
You continue to contribute to the world in positive ways every day through Miranda and Christopher...
Happy Birthday, Bubby Girl...
I love and miss you so much,
Vicky
Hope Finamore
July 17, 2017
Thoughts of you still enter my mind. Time has past, 1st birthday parties, making gingerbread houses & going to the park to push the kids on swings are gone. Listening to the girls sing or the boys rough housing. You working on the house & the kids playing Marco Polo in the pool. I'm lucky I got to watch your kids turn into young beautiful adults. The only thing that was missing was you. I see you in them every time I look at them. I wish you were here so we could share all our feelings of the children's graduation. You are the only one to understand so many things. There were so many things that were different between us but where they really counted so many things were the same. You once told me you never wanted to be forgotten, you never will. Not by me, not by your beautiful children, not by anyone who knew you more then 5 minutes. I miss you dear friend. You did a great job with the kids, keep up the good work from above & send down a few extra prayers as the kids all set out for college. XO
Mike Osiecki
July 17, 2017
Although I didn't know her,she must have been a beautiful,wonderful,extrodinary woman & mother by the love all of you still hold in your hearts for her.I hope Gary that you & your children have had some peace in your mind and some closure in your hearts though it will never truly heal.May her memory rain joy ,smiles & laughter in your souls & lives forever.She is with you always....
gary valleau
July 17, 2017
Zelia Marie Prussen Valleau 9/13/64- 7/17/07 One day , one month , one year... 10 years . Time never stands still , never goes backwards , always moving forward , moving further from the past with each tick of the clock . The only thing that remains the same is our thoughts of you on our mind , your name on our lips and the love we feel for you in our hearts . Zelia , so much is changing , time keeps moving , as we all try to reach back and hold on tight as to never let you go . We miss you , we love you and will always keep you in our hearts . Love Gary , Miranda & Christopher , up to the sky , around the moon into the deepest ocean and back again...
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2016
Sweet sister,
I love and miss you so very, very much.
With love on your Birthday and always...
Vicky
gary valleau
September 13, 2016
Another milestone , another year , another day,hour , min & second... no amount of time can ever take you from my thoughts , my heart , my soul ... I love you Zelia ... Happy birthday
Gary Valleau
July 18, 2016
This weekend we went on a 800+ miles bike trip and yesterday was 9 years since you were taken from us . Happy heavenly birthday Zelia . Its funny , as i ride i look up to the sky and always am followed by hawks , always followed by beauty , always at peace and always know that you are watching , protecting and I swear moving some stuff out of my way so i don't get killed lol . This year Chris, Miranda & myself were all separated , so each of us had to deal with this day by ourselves . On the outside , we all went about our business . But our hearts and thoughts are always with you . I miss and love you Zelia and no amount of time will ever change that . Keep our children safe and always in your embrace...
can't stop being in love with you
gary valleau
May 9, 2016
Happy mothers day Zelia... we will always love you
gary valleau
May 8, 2016
gary valleau
December 25, 2015
Merry Christmas Zelia ,
Another christmas is now here and our hearts are all hurting , our hearts have the void that appeared when you were taken from us so long ago . Of course we spent christmas eve over by your sisters house . Your grand niece and grand nephew are so beautiful . And our children are as wonderful and loving as ever
This missing you has never gotten easier for anyone of us . Each one of us carries you with us at all times . you have never been nor will you ever be forgotten . I am still so in love with you that each and everyday without you takes another piece of my heart away . I love you Zelia , please keep on watching over all of us xoxo
September 14, 2015
Zelia,
You've brightened every life you entered.
Thinking of you with every passing year
My very special friend.
Happy Birthday
Carl
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2015
Dear Zelia,
Thinking of you today and every day with a heart full of love and sorrow.
With much love on your birthday and always...
Vicky
gary valleau
September 13, 2015
The morning is quiet , the sun quite not yet peeking up over the trees as i sit here thinking , reflecting and missing you . I would give anything to be able to share your birthday with you , to see that smile , to hear your voice , to touch your face ... Instead i sit in my quiet and think of you ... Happy Birthday Zelia
thinking of you mommy
miranda valleau
August 14, 2015
July 17, 2015
THINKING OF YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN TODAY GARY....
Dan Hill
July 17, 2015
That emptiness can only be filled by the height of your heart. Peace my friend
gary valleau
July 17, 2015
Boy this is a day that i have been dreading as the years passed by . 8 years , as many years you had with your children . They now have with you in Heaven . The words written in 2 Peter 3:8 " A day is like a thousand years , and a thousand years like a day " could never be truer . each day since you've been gone has felt like a thousand years . Each moment that has passed has been an eternity , each birthday , holiday and special occasion are all filled with each one of us thinking , feeling , missing and loving you .
Yesterday 7 years 364 days , today 8 years . Tomorrow 8 years 1 day . every day is counted , every day you are remembered , every day you are so missed and everyday you are truly loved for ever and ever plus those thousand years . happy heavenly birthday Zelia , i will love you for eternity ...
carl Rant
May 11, 2015
Zelia,
My favorite sister in law, my friend. I still remember when Gary would come to the shop to see you,I knew than you and Gary were meant to be. Accepted by few our friendship stood the test of time. Time has stolen you and my Carly away from me exactly 3 years apart from one another. People say how time heals all wounds,that my be true. What most fail to see is that although we appear to be doing well, we carry the weight of our sorrows in our hearts forever. It never goes away its there all the time. We all must stay strong for those we love and those who still depend on us. I continue to remind myself how grateful I am to have had you in my life my sister. Happy mothers day zelia.
Carl
michae Tasman
May 11, 2015
Zelia when I knew you growing up you.lit up every room you walked into now heaven has an extra light God bless you and rest in peace
gary valleau
May 10, 2015
Zelia , I don't think I ever met a woman who wished to be a mother more then you , a woman who worked as hard as you to become a mom . A woman who loved being a mom & a woman who fought as hard to install as many memories in her children , knowing her time was short . As mothers are celebrated with brunches , flowers and gifts , we celebrate with memories . Memories of how beautiful you are , how dedicated you were , how selfless you were . I miss you , I love you & I pray these words are presented to you as a bouquet of roses .
Jennifer
January 29, 2015
Dearest Zelia, it is with a heavy heart I write. You were the one I looked up to from the 1st day I met you in math class. All the days that followed were filled with laughter and adventure because of you. You still influence me in so many ways and I still wish there were more time, more memories.
gary valleau
January 17, 2015
I've seen more birthdays without you
Then with
Yet it seems its half the celebration each year
Half the meaning
Half the reason to look forward to reaching those special double digits
Because I was eight, and soon I'll be sixteen
Because I know one day I'll be twenty-four
And the portion of my life containing you will only be a quarter
A fragment, a fraction, and diminishing percentage
Unable to place your voice
Despite recordings
I wont remember those summer parties and bouncy castles
Memories of matching white dresses and curly hair are already beginning to fade
And I lack clarity in those last remaining days
The countdown clock has started
Only two weeks standing
The knot in my chest grows with each passing moment
I can picture myself
Leaning over the cake
Set ablaze
Sixteen candles
Tiara in hair and your hand on my shoulder
I can almost feel its presence
But this photo is altered
One of these things don't belong
No
One of these things is not like the other
As I blow out the flames, I wish it were true
As I squeeze my eyes shut, I'll wish for you.)
mireanda valleau
December 13, 2014
Miranda Paige Valleau?Zelia Marie Prussen Valleau
18 hrs ·
i'm thinking about the first christmas without you, me dad and chris parked in the churches lot on christmas eve. both of us were sobbing, dad having one hand on my arm in the passenger seat and another on chris's knee in the back, and i remember telling dad to go comfort him because he needed it more and i needed to be strong like you. every time i run one of my races i think of your diary entries saying that you loved to run and you did track and field and it makes me try harder and is really the only reason i'm doing track. Its going to be the 8th christmas without you and I still feel like I'm in that parking lot but I love you so much and everything I do its because I want to make you proud.
gary valleau
September 13, 2014
happy birthday Zelia , today you would have been 50 . I wish you could have been here so we all could have shared this day with you . Instead we each speak to you in our hearts with love , missing your laugh and life .. love you to the moon and back
The beautiful one...
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2014
Dearest Zelia,
You would have been fabulous at 50!
With love on your birthday...and always...
Rosa Lepore
July 18, 2014
Rest easy Zeila, <3 ^j^
Debbie Doka
July 17, 2014
They are no words <3 <3 <3
Bridget Robb
July 17, 2014
So sorry Gary to you and your family
the most beautiful Dorothy anyone's ever seen!
Roseanna Barbato
July 17, 2014
Z was a very beautiful woman. So sorry for your loss.
Tommy Nolan
July 17, 2014
Zelia,
Although we've never met, you were friends with my wife Darnell in school and were close back then. She would tell me stories of you wo and we would laugh :) , I've been friends with Gary over the years and have only in the past couple become better friends with him. We get together a lot now. What I would like to say is after meeting Chris and Miranda, I can only imagine how amazing a mom, wife, and person you were and am sorry to never have met you.xoxoxo
gary valleau
July 17, 2014
7 years ... each morning the sun has risen and every night the stars have given light to the darkness . The world continued to spin , and people went about their lives . The surface all seems normal , all seems right .
Except with us . There is a hole in my heart that has never closed , a wound that will never heal . Today we celebrate your life , we celebrate our love for you . We celebrate all that you touched , all that you did . But we also mourn . We mourn the loss of your smile , the sound of your voice & the light in your eyes . Your touch , your scent & your being . Zelia I loved you yesterday , I love you today & i will love you for all the tomorrows . Always missed , never forgotten xoxo
May 11, 2014
Happy Mothers Day Zelia , You are so missed , so loved & will never be forgotten in my heart and soul
gary valleau
February 15, 2014
whether on earth or in heaven my love for you will never fade
you are and always will be in our hearts .
april 07 miranda and chris communion
gary valleau
February 15, 2014
gary valleau
December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas Zelia , This year I sit amazed at our children . With me being unable to to ensure that the joy of Christmas is spread through out our home , Miranda and Christopher stepped up and did everything . last night I had my joy , listening to them talk and laugh, take pics and share love as I slowly fell asleep knowing that your love is truly in their hearts. To the moon and back xoxo
gary valleau
November 28, 2013
Happy Thanksgiving Zelia , out of all the things I am thankful for . I most thankful that you are in my and the children's heart , forever etched until time brings me back to you . to the moon and back xoxo
Rose Colon
November 11, 2013
Zelia,
You were a Beautiful person inside n out, and a Wonderful mother and wife ~
R.I.P. <3
Always beautiful...
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2013
Dear Zelia,
Another birthday, and you are missed so very much...
And not just today, everyday.
With Love,
Vicky
gary valleau
September 13, 2013
Happy birthday Zelia , I sure You've been reminding everyone in Heaven that your birthday was coming for months now xoxo
gary valleau
July 17, 2013
Not a day goes by that im not reminded of you in some way . Be it thru Miranda's rolling of her eyes at me , or the way christopher has that little smirk . 6 years has come and gone and every momement has you in our hearts . To the moon and back Zelia
June 21, 2013
Zelia , today your babies graduated middle school . Chris with a presidental award and Miranda with high honors . They are on there way to HS now , scary just how fast time is moving along . they truely are the best kids ( nothing like me when i was there age )each milestone they reach is a mix of emotions , proud of the people they are turning into and sad , well we know the reason for the sadness.I know you are with them with every step they take and that gives me my peace . not a tick of a clock nor the changing of the seasons can take what is in their hearts and mine . Love you Zelia....
gary valleau
May 12, 2013
Happy mothers day Zelia , thank you for watching over our kids ....To the moon and back...xoxo
gary valleau
February 15, 2013
2-14-13
This is for Miranda and Christopher for valentines day.I know these words will be coming from me , but I know they would be something close to the words in mommys heart .
My dear Christopher and Miranda
Happy Valentines Day . You both are the the light in my heart . I love you very much , as a matter of fact ( dont tell daddy ) I love you guys even more then him lol :) I am so proud of who you both are , and who you are growing into . Miranda , you are so beautiful . Inside and out you are perfect . You are the my rainbow and I am yours . You have so much talent and ability that world is truly waiting for you to bloom . Christopher , my little puppy . I have never met a man more handsome then you . Look at you ... Tall and strong . And smart , I've never seen anyone more hungry for knowledge then you . The way you injest things into your minds always amazes me and gives me those goose bumps .
With all my heart...Up to the sky around the moon , down into the deepest ocean and back again ...
ALWAYS AND FOREVER
gary valleau
January 1, 2013
2012 has come to an end and we all are looking forward to an even better 2013
Zelia , I know that your loving hands have been guiding Christopher and Miranda along their way . I also know that they miss you so very much . You are as much as a presence in their lives today as you were the day they were born .Believe me , sometimes I look at Miranda and nothing but you . Especially attitude wise . Your son is growing ( and i mean growing )into a wonderful young man . they are just as you envisioned them to be before they were even born. We love and miss you everyday Zelia , time will never change that . To the moon and back....
gary valleau
October 12, 2012
10 /12 /96. Happy anniversary Zelia. 16 years ago on a beautiful sunny day....
Victoria Spears
September 13, 2012
Dear Zelia,
With much love on your birthday, and always...
Bryan ALey
July 17, 2012
Keep strong!Sent with Love and Aloha!
July 17, 2012
5 years have come and gone. Not for a momement have you not been part of us that were left behind .Each day I see you in Miranda's smile or christophers facial expressions.As they grow your reflection with in them becomes more and more clear . I know how much you love them and all i ask is you continue to touch them... a gentle breeze , the warmth of the sun , the scent of a flower , the flight of a butterfly ... Today I celebrate your life Zelia not your passing xoxo
gary valleau
May 13, 2012
Happy Mothers day Zelia , I know I could never have done this without you being my angel watching over all of us . Each day you are missed , every minute you are in our hearts . love you ...
gary valleau
December 25, 2011
Merry Christmas in Heaven Zelia , kids are so happy with their gifts . They've been playing with their new mac since they opened them . You would be so proud of them , they truely are great kids . they miss you so much Zelia , as do I . Give jesus a kiss for us . xoxo
gary valleau
November 24, 2011
happy thanksgiving zelia , we miss you and during these holidays its just even more of a reminder . thank you for watching over our kids xo
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