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Jesse Stanfield Obituary
STANFIELD, Jesse
Born in Okolona, MS on June 21, 1922 and passed peacefully at home on October 2, 2009 in North Highlands, CA in the loving care of his family. He was raised in Rome, NY and served with the US Army 92nd Infantry Division during WWII. In 1967 he moved his family to North Highlands and worked at McClellan AFB until he retired in 1982. He is survived by his beloved wife of 65 years, Almeda; devoted children, Andrea Arnett (James), Bernice Walton (Thomas), John Stanfield and Christine Stanfield; 5 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren and many relatives and friends. Friends are welcome for visitation on Wednesday, October 7 from 3 to 7pm at Morgan Jones Chapel of Chimes, 4200 Broadway. Funeral services will be October 8 at 11am at New Testament Baptist Church, 6746 34th Street, North Highlands, CA. Interment Sylvan Cemetery.
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Sponsored by John H. Stanfield, II, son.
Christine
October 2, 2023
Dad, I carry you in my heart. Thank you for watching over my loved ones as well as me!! Thank you for establishing the resilience that I now have. Loving you always and forever!!
John
October 1, 2023
Well Dad, sleep on in your well deserved eternal rest, 14 years now. Fourteen years remembering you each day and as well understanding more and more daily the struggles you went through in so many ways. It is a truism indeed that the older we are blessed to become the more we appreciate the wisdom of those who conceived us and raised us . Sleep on. Love always, John
Christine Stanfield
October 4, 2022
"Grief didn't just show up the day you died, Grief shows up on a random Monday night, Grief shows up in aisle 5 at the grocery store or at Raley's getting Chinese food), Grief shows up when I hear some of your favorite music, Grief shows up at my dining table, Grief showed up at Stanica's renewal of her wedding vows, at your beloved great-grand babies birthdays, graduations, Grief shows up when SSStanfield was born, Grief shows up on my sleepless nights, Grief shows up when the phone rings and its not you on the other end, Grief shows up when I go to call you for your sage advice and realize it is only in my head that I hear your soft voice, Grief shows up time and time again always Unexpected and Never invited, Grief didn't just show up the day you transcended" written by A ,edited by me.
I LOVE YOU DAD
Your baby girl, Christine
John H. Stanfield II
October 1, 2019
Dear Dad ten years since you took your eternal rest to sit at the feet of Jesus.Never to be forgotten through the glitter in the eyes of generations of we the descendants of Mom and you.So rest on Dad rest on as the years continue to dash by but as you yet remain in our hearts where ever we are and no matter what we do as illustrated as your last lucid words to me your globe living only son : keep on going. Love you..you are here with me and shall always be that bright beacon light that only a father can give a son ..that bright beacon light only an only son can possibly know and embrace and cherish all the days of his life.
June 21, 2016
This candle is for you, always in our hearts. Love Christine
June 21, 2016
Dad, happy birthday. You are forever in my heart. I love you and miss you dearly. Love Christine
Dad and his first 4 great-grands, Baby Jazzy, K'B, Theo and Asante 2000
Christine Stanfield
July 22, 2013
Christine
July 17, 2013
da, you are always upmost on my mind. Hugs and kisses
K'Brianey Lawrence-Boatner
June 20, 2013
Your brithday is tomarrow and I just wanted to say I love and miss you
Stanicia Boatner
October 19, 2009
To my grandfather and the first Papa your great granddaughters have known. I was blessed to have you in my life for 37 years. So many memories of you Papa. We all have a piece of you. Beautiful man I will see you in Heaven. Love your granddaughter.
Goodman Family
October 11, 2009
The Goodman family is offering condolences and prayers for the family of Jesse Stanfield. May God bless your family with everlasting memory of Jesse. We share in your grief.
Wilma, Sherilyn (Barksdale), Bruce, Fern (Campbell), Winston, Wayne, Linda and Roderick Goodman (children of Deacon Roy and Thelma Goodman)
Valerie Masumbuko
October 8, 2009
Dear Mrs Stanfield, Dear John,
It is with deepest sorrow that I am writing this note to express my sincere condolences for the loss of a a husband and a father.
I never knew Mrs Jesse Stanfield personally but learned a lot about him enough to know he was a wonderful person that I have no doubt he will be terribly missed by the entire family.
Dear Mrs Stanfield, Dear John, as you go through these sad moments I just want to let you know that I carry you in my heart, thoughts and prayers. May our Lord continue to comfort you and give you the strength to go on with the assurance that we will see Dad Jesse Stanfield again in heaven where tears, fear, sickness and death will be no more.
With you in the Lord
Valerie Masumbuko
Via P. Erizzo
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Reginald Stanfield
October 7, 2009
Uncle C you were my father’s twin. As I learned you in my child’s eye I felt you were quiet and contrasted, as compared to him and I admired your stealth and your steel. Not surprisingly, he left ahead of you, as I’m sure he would have done during a day’s play in rural fields or along the banks of the fishing spot when you were boys in knickers. Yet the bond of twins is seldom broken and that bond beckoned you be together again.
Among others in your circle of life you leave the family you headed firmly and with the purpose of a man. You leave your wife, my aunt, my Aunt Almeda who I love for the compassion, kindness and motherness she held for the little boy who preceded the man in me. You leave my first cousins, John, more my brother; Christine, with the angel’s heart; Bernice, quick to smile with joie de vivre and Andrea, calm and cool with still waters that run deep, all children well nurtured with hearts of human beings. In them and so many others you have touched, you leave a legacy any man who walks along the path into the light and turns to view the life behind him would smile upon.
Shirley Gosser
October 7, 2009
No bond is as great as that between a parent and child. Our deepest condolences are with you as you grieve.
Clarence and Gloria Sylvester
October 7, 2009
We express our most heartfelt sympathy to the Stanfield Family. May the Lord be with you and grant you peace during your time of sorrow. You are certainly in our prayers.
John H. Stanfield II
October 7, 2009
EVEN AMONGST THY THREE DAUGHTERS: THANKS FOR MAKING ME A MAN
Even amongst your three daughters who you loved so dearly and who so dearly loved you, thank you for making me into a real man. As your only son, named after your Dad, thank you for making me into a REAL man. Thank you for telling me that though my sisters may tease and in other ways get on my nerves, a real man never hits a girl, just learn how to shake it off and on like a breeze. Thank you for teaching me how to climb a tree and for making that kite for me and teaching me how to tie that rope around that tree. Thank you for the times when as a boy grandfather and you used to take me around to show me how to hunt the coons and slaughter the pig or just have an ice cream cone as we used to ride around.Thank you for teaching me that a man goes to work and knows how to make things work, something you instilled in thy daughters too as well as me. And thank you for teaching me that a man takes care of his family and that he takes care of his things. Thank you for showing me that the man is more important than the clothes he wears and that substance is always better than form. Though thank you for allowing me to wear your shoes while in high school. Thank you for showing me that a man tips the airport porter and does the same with the cab driver and shares what he has with others in so many ways. Thank you for opening the gates of the world through those sets of encyclopedias Mom and you got for us one by one in the A&P grocery store while we were growing up and thus teaching us that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. So thank you for letting me know that men can talk and write as well too. And thank you for telling me and more importantly showing me that a real man questions everything, protects what is his, designs and patrols his borders, and stands up and speaks up like a man should while enjoying planting flowers, laughing with children, and peacefully fishing or picking tomatoes from the backyard garden just to give to a visiting church member. Thank you for showing me that I am not liberated until I struggle for others. And thank you for making me a free man who could fly anywhere while not forgetting where I am from and who I should always love and protect. So even amongst thy three daughters who are my three dear sisters who thee adore so dearly and who adore thee so much as well, when I could have come out so much differently, thee made me a man so what else can I say but an eternal thanks Dad.
John H. Stanfield, II
October 5,2009 upon the transition of his father Jesse Stanfield October 2, North Highlands, California at home
Blessings,
John
John H. Stanfield, II
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