Martha T. Bankhead

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Martha Bankhead Obituary

BANKHEAD, MARTHA T. Martha T. Bankhead beloved wife and mother, passed peacefully on June 16, 2009, after a 15 year battle with Alzheimer's. Born in Kansas on January 30, 1925, she moved with her parents and two sisters to California at the age of 4, and resided in San Diego until her death. She attended Hoover High School and later worked for the San Diego Unified School District. Martha loved to sew, make her own clothes, and sew doll clothes for her only grand-daughter. She also loved to camp and hike, listen to music, and have picnics with her grandchildren at regional parks, where you sometimes saw her sliding down a slide. She also enjoyed playing practical jokes on her two sons. During the war years, she and several friends followed their husbands around the country to the various Army training facilities, and she loved to tell stories about her adventures. After the war, she and her family resided in the East San Diego area for 59 years. She is survived by Keil, her husband of 65 years, two sons, Ronald (known as Marc to family) and Rod, four grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and one sister, Margaret Faulkner, also of San Diego. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the Alzheimer's Association or to Silverado Hospice.

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Published by San Diego Union-Tribune on Jun. 19, 2009.

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ROD BANKHEAD

November 12, 2018

Mom -
I miss you every day. I still feel your presence and know you are with me.

What a wonderful woman and mother you were and still are.
Love you so much
Rod

Rod BANKHEAD

March 25, 2017

Mom -
Tomorrow I am 70 years old. And for all of those years - the lord blessed me with you. I love you so much.

ROD BANKHEAD

May 8, 2016

Mom:
Happy Mother's Day.

Eight years have passed since you left me. I visit you often and miss you so very much. You were the most wonderful Mom a boy could ever hope for.

I miss our visits and talks every day.

I will always love you so very much,

Your son - Rod

Rod Bankkhead

July 30, 2010

Mom -
I'm sorry there are not more entries in your guest book. I know it's because the people who would want to write something just simply did not have access to the internet.

Last Sunday your sister Margaret passed on and now is with you and your folks - all a family again.

I wanted to send you all of the love and respect of a lifetime from a son to his Mom. The best way is to repeat my letter to you from Mother's Day, 2005. I love you Mom and I miss you each and every day

Happy Mother’s Day………Happy Mother’s Day………Happy Mother’s Day………Happy Mother’s Day

May 8, 2005

Dear Mom –
On this Mother’s Day, I want to share some of my warmest memories of you, and my deepest appreciation for a lifetime of your unconditional love, care and faith. I don’t want to ever think that I left any words of love, respect and appreciation unspoken between us.

Mom, I want you to know that I am blessed with very vivid, wonderful memories of you all the way back when I was only a very few years old. Most people don’t believe that is possible, but it’s important to me that you know it’s very true. For some reason, I have always been very aware of my “world,” starting at that early age and continuing to this very day.

I’m so grateful you and I have always been very close. And our many cherished “talks” over my lifetime helped shape every facet of my life. Growing up, I realize that I could have (just maybe?) been much easier to raise. I know that I was not a “bad kid,” but I also recognize I was a very real challenge far too often. I want you to know that I believe it was your trust, faith and love I didn’t want to betray, and that alone kept me from going over the line that you may have feared and worried I might do. I also regret every “grey hair” that may have my name on it. But, at the same time, those grey hair moments are also very precious to me because no matter what, you never, ever stopped having faith in me. In the most difficult times, you always brought love, comfort and hope to me, even if just by saying “….this too shall pass.”

Later, as a parent of two boys myself, I depended on the example you were as my Mom. Like you did so wonderfully with me, I tried to release my own sons to explore and enjoy their world as “boys” and as they grew, I tried to never stop listening to them and encouraging them. I believe what you taught me had everything to do with your grandson’s being such wonderful boy’s and now men, and fathers too.

Mom, you have and will always be so precious to me. Everything that you are to me will always fill my heart with joy, and make me so very grateful that god let me be your son.

Happy Mom’s Day!!!

All my love,
Rod

Joseph -Mabel Armstrong

June 19, 2009

Dear Keiland family. Mabel and I are so sorry for your loss. We remember all the lovely happy days we had together then we young and on the police department.We pray that our loving God will give you and yours his comforting peace. God Bless and all our Love. Mabel and Joe Armstrong.

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