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Memories and Condolences
for Joyce Rambo
Daniel M
June 14, 2008
Reba and Family, you were so blessed to have Dottie in you lives. Her songs, her words proved she was very close to GOD. I feel so blessed just to hear her songs and words. If just a portion of her blessing would rub off on me or my Family, I would be so happy.
Yes, I could just see her going to Heaven singing " I go to the Rock" We all know she is heading to the
promised land, So say a big Hallelujah!
God Bless you and your Family.
Gwendella Fiederer
June 12, 2008
As the days and weeks pass, and as you return to life’s routine, may you continue to feel comforted by the love and support of family and friends.
Tanya Dover
June 11, 2008
God Bless you all, and may God comfort all at this time of need.
John Broussard
June 10, 2008
Dearest Reba and family- I will miss Dottie so very much. She was such a dear sweet person in and out. I have everything she has ever recorded. Even as far as when you used to sing with your parents. My thoughts and prayers are with you and family~
renee dennis
June 8, 2008
will miss dottie,she was beautiful inside and outside.may god comfort you at this time. we were blessed to come and be a part of the wake ,way from chicagoland area. the family was very warm and lovely also!!!!!!!!!
love
Renee Dennis
David Williams
June 5, 2008
Dearest Reba and Family: your Mother was such an inspiration to me. I have almost everything she ever recorded even back to the days when you and your Dad sang with her. Our Loss is Heaven's gain and she and all the other Homecomming friends in Heaven are now singing not for us but to the Lord they served and loved so long. My prayers are with you. I loved her so very much!
Nancy Bailey
June 4, 2008
Dear Reba and family: I want to express how much the music your mother wrote and sang has blessed my heart for many years. I truly believe she is "Sheltered in the Arms of God" as her mansion has been built next to His. Thank you for sharing her memory to so many throught the world.
I am a personal friend of Pat Green's and she and I have talked many times about Dottie's ministry. Our loss in Heaven's gain. Praise God we will meet again.
mary Thomas
May 31, 2008
Heaven's choir is getting sweeter and sweeter every day as we see our precious loved ones who has blessed our lives so many times with their beautiful gifts of song and music going to heaven and joining the heavenly choir. We were so blessed by your mother's wonderful gifts. She will be sorely missed. I saw her many times on TBN, Jim Bakker's show and with the Gaither homecomings. She was always a true blessing. You could see how much she loved Jesus. It shown in her eyes. Now she is with Him
Kay Tate
May 29, 2008
Dear Reba, our prayer go out to you and your Dad. My mom ( Roena Good Moore) has told me many of stories of how they dated together, and went to many of tent meeting together. I can only say how very sorry to hear of Dottie death. I loved her song I go to the Rock.
I remember going to many of singing here in Nashvile to see all of you guys. We will be praying for all of you. God bless
Mary Frisby
May 29, 2008
My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
Deborah Davis
May 29, 2008
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Kathy cox
May 29, 2008
when i was going throught a lot of my back trouble in was in the hospital have alot of pain i would put cd on of dottie and it would help me i thank god for sister dottie one day am going to meet her with our jesus in the air.
GAIL WILLIAMS
May 29, 2008
WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN ....BECAUSE OF JESUS.......GAIL WILLIAMS REVERE MASSACHUSETTS
Tina Hice
May 29, 2008
Dear Reba and family,
I didn't hear of your mother's untimely passing until I was watching a re-run of Jim Baker today. Our family experienced a similar loss last Monday (May 19) when my sister-in-law's mother was killed in a car wreck on her way home from work. Last week was very difficult, to say the least, so I can sympathize with your situation. Your mom was greatly loved by all who heard her sing and was an inspiration to many. It is my sincere prayer that God will comfort you and your family during this difficult time and will help you to find joy in your mom's music and the memories of happier times you shared together.
Love in Christ,
Tina Hice and Family
Doug Leslie
May 29, 2008
I've enjoyed The Singing Rambos, Dottie and Reba for a lot of years. I remember meeting Dottie and Buck when they were recording their first album without Reba, in the studios of the John T. Benson Publishing Company. My wife and I were the janitors at night and as soon as I heard Dotties voice talking down a hall, I knew who it was. She was very, very sweet and invited ,my wife and I to come in the engineering room to watch and listen while they were recording. That was in 1978 and that memory will live with me forever. Thank You Jesus for such a Talented Saint and wonderful woman of God. I'll miss just knowing you are out there doing Gods great work.
Deonne Bowen
May 28, 2008
I have sang Dottie Rambo songs for over 35 years.What a legacy she has left behind,not only for her family, but for all of us who loved her and her God given talent. We will miss her.
Cheryl Snow
May 27, 2008
Reba, You are so blessed to have had a mother that not only walked with God on Earth...but is now walking with him in Heaven. Isn't it great that we will all enjoy her music again in Heaven....She might be gone from this earth....But she is writing and singing new songs in Heaven....
Cathy & Glen Higdon
May 27, 2008
I've been singing "Dottie Rambo" songs for over 40 years. Her music has touched our lives, brought comfort, and lifted us up through so many times in our lives. God Bless the family and friends.
May 27, 2008
BECKY DANIELS
Angie Wilcox
May 27, 2008
Dear Family of Dottie,
I heard of Dottie's graduation on memorial day. As I left the cemetary where my Grandparents and Sunday School teacher lay, I raised my hands to heaven thinking of the glorious song fests they are having up there. So many of Dottie's songs brought me closer to the Lord in Worship as well as opened my eyes to his prescence in time of need. God will continue to bless you all and keep you in his hands during your time of grief. My prayers are with you.
Jeri Tate
May 26, 2008
Reba,Dony and family-My thoughts and prayers are with you-every day I start the day with your mother singing "The Mercy Throne" and have continued every day since her accident. She was a great lady and will be missed altho she will live on in our hearts.
Joel Burrows
May 26, 2008
Dottie's music has touched my life more than words can ever say. She sang from the heart and was truly inspired by God himself. Dottie we love you forever and will miss you sorely.
Greg Brookshire
May 25, 2008
Dottie will always live through her songs. What will you and I leave behind? May God Bless the Family.
DAVID BROUSSARD
May 25, 2008
Dear Reba and Dony and family-
You have my deepest sympathany in the loss of your dear mother. Dottie was such an inspiration to me when I was growing. It was her music that got me through a lot of problems growing up. I will always remember dear sweet Dottie.
And Reba I am so sorry for your loss you have my deepest sypathy and my prayers are with you and your dear family. Reba you are an inspiration to me as well, you definitely have your mother's gift.
God Speed
JEANETTE FISHER
May 24, 2008
Dottie was at our church with Buck and Reba so you can see how long ago it as..She looked down at my son and me and said we had a beautiful continence. I loved her..
A PRECIOUS LADY...Jeanette
Lynda Van Os
May 24, 2008
Dear Reba, Dony & Family
The first christian concerts I attended as a teenager was to see the Rambos & The Downings. I saw you all many many times. You Reba became my ultimate favorite and I have continued to follow you on your path down the Yellow Brick Road. I thank you and your entire family for sowing seeds in my life so long ago. I pray and know that God will comfort you in a way that only He can! What a choir that heaven now has!
You are in my heart and prayers
robin nichols
May 24, 2008
the first sounds of music that i can remember as a baby were the rambos and johnny cash...i have never stopped loving the beautiful words and harmony of you guys..then as i became a teenager,reba began her solo career,i have every album she did,then came rambo-mcguire...the legacy never dies,it just keeps on going...i love the way dottie and her daughter write,both so different,but both so full of realness with god's love...i cried when i heard about dottie,she will be missed by the whole world,and i pray for reba and her family,i lost my dad 2 yrs ago,it is a very hard thing to deal with,but god will get you through it...much love to all of you.....robin
Rita Bosico
May 23, 2008
Dottie and family,
I am grateful for the enormous music and genuine testimony of your life's ups and downs. I will always thank God for you and remember you lovingly.
Sorry I won't get to see you in nearby Konawa this August, but I'll see you in heaven.
John Burton
May 23, 2008
I celebrate Dottie's life and I thank GOD for the light of the Lord she brought to this world. Thank you Dottie! We LOVE you!
We have planted a pink dogwood tree at Sweetbriars Spiritual Nature Center just miles from where our Saviour WELCOMED you HOME!! We named her little Dottie in honor of your life and the LOVE you gave to this world.
Anyone who would like to visit Little Dottie at Sweetbriars Spiritual Nature Center just east of Mount Vernon, MO can call for directions and more information. John Burton 417-234-1242
We Love you Dottie! We know you are with God and you are both with us!!
Anne Melnyk
May 23, 2008
To Dottie's Family
Sharing in your sorrow. I also lost my mother tragically this year and understand the pain you are going through. I am one of the fortunate ones that heard the Dottie Rambo trio in concert here in Winnipeg many years ago. It blessed my heart and I have always enjoyed singing her songs - they have a powerful message. She will live on through this music.
Gene Wakefield
May 23, 2008
I've listened and played (piano) Dotties music for years. There's no other artists that has inspired me the way Dottie has. She was and will continue to bless me and others!!!
Thank you for sharing her with the world!
Susan McDaniel
May 22, 2008
Reba and Family,
My heart hurts for you. I know that you miss your Mother more than we can ever know. Beautiful Dottie is in heaven with Jesus; right where she has written about so many times.
Just know that the world hurts with you. God Bless You.
Jody White Judkins
May 22, 2008
Sorrow Not...Ms. Dottie is with King Jesus and having a wonderful family reunion in Heaven. (John 14) She's doing what she's always done at family reunions; playing her guitar, singing and Praising the Lord!!! Praying for all the family! Be strong, take courage, the Lord is with you all! JWJ
Douglas Floyd
May 22, 2008
What a true lady of God she stood for God. I think our lord for a person like Dottie that every song she wrote touch my heart. She was the one song writer for myself. That the Holy one always filled me will his sweet love THANK -YOU DOTTIE you will be missed but one day we as all saints we be in beaven with you . And i think if near.
Sandy Dollens
May 22, 2008
For Dottie is surely sheltered in the arms of GOD words can't never express the way we all felt about or sister Dottie but we all know that she is in heaven free from all the pain that she went through. But I know that the Lord on that Day said WELL DONE THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVENT Your work on earth is done and know it is time to come home. I never know Dottie personally but I enjoyed all her songs I even have several sound tracks of the music Dottie wrote and when I hear them or sing them I have peace in my heart and I am just so blessed to know that Dottie obeyed the Lord and she did what her Father asked her to do. I know that words can't bring a loved one back but I do know that it was time for our sister to go home, and that she is sitting with our Lord in heaven I think that if she could she would say dont cry for me for I have made it to heaven with my Lord. Dottie you will be missed but sis shout all over heaven free from all the back pain dance like you have never danced before. To Reba and family I am so sorry for the loss of your mom and friend may God comfort you and your family in this time of sorrow. But just look up in to heaven and know that She is happer than she has ever been. For she has received her reward and oh what a Great reward that is to set at the feet of Jesus. Lots of Love and prayer may God richly bless you and Keep you Keep the Faith and know that we well see her again and the way it looks it wont be long
Donna Gilmore
May 22, 2008
Dottie Rambo has been one of the greatest God given, talented songwriters of our time. The loss is a heavy one but I know I will hear her sing again one day in Heaven before my Lord God Almighty!!
LATRESSE CARTWRIGHT
May 22, 2008
TO THE FAMILY OF MRS. DOTTIE. I NEVER MET HER IN PERSON BUT WATCHED HER ON TBN AND THE INTERVIEW SHE HAD WITH DINO, AS I THINK OF HER SHE WAS LIKE A MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER TO ALL, SHE WAS FULL OF LOVE AND JOY AND WAS NOT AFRAID TO GIVE IT AWAY.WHAT A BLESSING TO LIVE A LONG LIFE NOT JUST FOR HERSELF BUT FOR OTHERS, WE WILL SEE HER AGAIN THIS TIME FOR ETERNITY. I SEND MY LOVE AND PRAYERS TO THE FAMILY. YOU ALL ARE BLESSED! YOUR SISTER IN CHRIST LATRESSE
Richard Rambo
May 22, 2008
I didnot know Dottie personally but was proud to share the same Rambo name . my condolences
Pastor Bill Harnum
May 22, 2008
In Gods Sweet Heaven
There is a land
A holy city
where hearts don,t break
and tears don,t fall
where clouds don,t rise and
deaths a stranger
In God's sweet heaven
It will be worth it all.
Chrous
Yes in God's new heaven
we will meet up there
and such wonderous glory
we then shall share
we will crown king Jesus
we will sing a new song
In Gods sweet heaven
oh it can,t be long
The battle rages
and the waves crest high
to our dear loved ones
we must say good bye
we seek out a reason
but none is given
yes we,ll understand it
In Gods sweet heaven
When we get yonder
on that golden shore
hearts won,t break
and we will suffer no more
we will see such beauty
when we awake
In Gods first heaven
as our first breathe we take
written by william harnum
may 21st 2008
In tribute to Dottie
gospel musics queen
brenda mccloud
May 21, 2008
dottie will be verry miss but one thing we know is that she is with are lovering god and someday we will be with her i send all my preyed to her kids and hanband and god bless you all
margaret meadows
May 21, 2008
i know that dottie is in heaven and we will miss her very much but we will see her agin our thoughts and prayers with you all love always
Geraldine Smith
May 21, 2008
To The Rambo Family,our Joy can't be express knowing that Mrs.Dottie is with Jesus right now and what a celebration is taking place in heaven ,for I know that Jesus is saying to her "well done my faithful servant". And to Mrs Reba "Hold on my child Joy comes in the morning" Our Prayers are with you and Mr. Donnie.
Janet
May 21, 2008
There are no earthly words to express my heartfelt sympathy to Dottie's Dear Family,and all of her Friends. I agree, that OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,must be preparing the MUSIC for the Return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh how I want to be a part of that Choir to sing her next Song.
Brenda Rodriguez
May 21, 2008
Dearest Reba and Family:
Many years ago My Mom and Your Mother met and became the inspiration that caused my mother to write her own music. My Mom along with another Pastor in Phoenix would bring the groups in and so many times as a child I cherished being around your mom, and so many of the singers that I believe make up the choir in heaven! Dottie, became the insirpiration for me to work on becoming the "alto" in the choir that my mother directed at 44th St. Church of God, in Phoenix, AZ. Pastor Hershel Diffie pastored for over 35 years. My heart is saddened and yet I know there is rejoicing in heaven today! Reba hold fast to those wonderful songs your mother wrote and all the wonderful times you've had with your Mother. Her annointing lives in through you and your children! You will be in all of our thoughts and prayers! God Bless and Keep you!
Katie Brown
May 21, 2008
To the Rambo Family.
Ms. Dottie's songs and music have touch my heart so many time. This precious lady reminds me of Esther. She truly tried to save her people through music. God bless you all now and always
Katie Brown
May 21, 2008
To the Rambo Family.
Ms. Dottie's songs and music have touch my heart so many times. This precious lady reminds me of Esther. She truly tried to save her people through music. God bless you all now and always
Deborah Skelton
May 21, 2008
All of my life we have enjoyed the music of Dottie Rambo and continue to enjoy her songs. I remember one time the Rambos came to Phoenix Arizona in the 70s and I was about 4 years old; she touched her cheek and told me to give her a 'chocolate kiss'. We will be forever blessed with the music legacy she leaves behind.
Doc Miller
May 21, 2008
Dottie Rambo is NOW in HEAVEN with all of the GREATS of SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC. I can just hear Vestal and Dottie singing one of Dottie's songs like "Build My Mansion Next Door to Jesus "
I can say that as a radio personality I was honored to do a program with Dottie in Cleburne TX a couple of years ago. I could see though her frail little eyes the pain and suffering she had endured over the years. But when she took the platform and started singing and talking about her precious love for JESUS, All of that went away. We will miss you very much, but as long as we have the ability to play your songs over the airwaves someone, somehow, somewhere will be touched by the ink put to paper and sung by generations to come
"PLAYING THE VERY BEST IN SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC"
Doc Miller's Southern Gospel Express
E Harrell
May 21, 2008
I can't help but think that since Jesus will be returning soon for his Bride, He needed Dottie, along with Dad Speer, Rusty Goodman, and other great song writers to write the song that the angels cannot sing. The one that only the redeemed will be able to sing. And one that only Dottie could help pen.
Write the song Dottie. I'm ready to sing.
Judi Hodges
May 21, 2008
Our prayers are with you in this time of grief. May God place his arms around you and his hands under you to carry you through all the days to come. Dottie has been such a light to so many people lost in the darkness. Keep her music alive. Her message was and will always be the same. We all are going to be hold him on day.
Donna Gable
May 21, 2008
I send this to the family.
My sister Dorothy Alting from a little town called Simcoe Ontario Canada
Love Dottie and her song's.
They made a differents in a lot of ways to people in Canada too.
I also like the masage God gave her to sing. It was right from the heart. I wiil pray for a blessing to come and bild a bridge over your loss. I am happy to know we will see our loved ones some day in Heaven.
Donna Gable
Betty Teille
May 21, 2008
I remember growing up listening to the Rambo's in the 1960 and the Goodman family. I have watched Dottie on TBN for the last several years. Her words on so many songs have blessed me and helped through so many trials. I remember singing He Looked beyond my Faults as a teenager. How true that was. I know that Dottie is seeing first hand what she has seen in her visions and put words on paper. What a great day in Heaven for her. Our loss is truly Heaven's gain
becky hooker
May 21, 2008
i loved u dottie u were my hero, i saw u sing with loretta lynn in ky. and u inspired me, i have breast cancer, and after i heard u sing i knew everything was going to be all right u showed me what god can do and because of him i live. your family was blessed to have a mother like you. i saw u in cin on april 18, and i just love u you will be missed greatly. god bless you all.
Patricia Burnette
May 20, 2008
praying for the family and extended family of dotties.reba i can feel your pain cause my mom moved up to heaven 10 years ago and i miss her so much.praying that our blessed lord will strengthen you and just remember you have more to go to heaven for than you had several days ago .god bless you all .
in christ
Carolyn McCann
May 20, 2008
May God wrap His loving and comforting arms around all of Dottie's Family during this time of your loss. We don't know He is our "comforter" until we need comforting. The world has been so blessed by the awesome songs penned by Dottie through the years. Through her pain and trials of life, she has given all of us beautiful songs that minister. I still remember Dottie telling about her "angel room" where she received the words and music to many of the songs she composed. I also remember attending concerts to hear the "Rambos" sing when Reba was still a teenager in Modesto, CA. Our prayers are with the Rambo/McGuire families and may God restore health and mend the bodies of those injured in the accident.
Sherry Cox
May 20, 2008
What unforgettable, heart-touching, and God-glorifying songs God gave to us through His faithful servant, Dottie Rambo. The songs she wrote and sung will never die and they will keep this beautiful lady in our hearts until we meet her at the feet of Jesus.
Earlene Long
May 20, 2008
I fill like I have lost a personal friend, I met her on the Gaithers Vidos, God bess you,How lucky you are to be her family. See you in Heaven Dottie,I want to sing with you and Vestal.
Dr. Steven & Darlene Allen
May 20, 2008
How sad..yet joy comes each morning from the Lord. Our hearts break with you, Reba, and your family. Watching TBN's 1994 Tribute to your Mother Dottie was a comfort to us. Dottie touched my life first in 1968 or 1969 in Lakeland, FL at a concert where my husband and I were preparing for ministry at Southeastern University. In 1980's we were honored to have you sing in our church..Westside A/G..now Life Church International (23 years later)..Thanks..Reba for sharing your Mother with me and my family all these years singing 'the greatest songs' ever written! Especially..."Germs"...your son was darling singing it in 1994..and your daughters were adorable in song and dance. Our love goes out to you all at this time. Keep the "Singing Fires Burning!" You have always made Dottie a proud Mom..and rightly so.
God Bless You...and Keep you safe and close in the comfort of the Holy Spirit as life goes on..We all look forward to meeting "our Life's Rose-Dottie Rambo" again in heaven. Love and Prayers...
Dr. Steven & Darlene Allen
Bruce A. McGuire
May 20, 2008
What an amazing Lady Dottie Rambo was!
There are no words to describe the sadness I share with so many others that she is now gone from us, but Thank God we had her! No one in ANY field of music could put a song together, or touch more people with just one song than Dottie Rambo. Words and music as meaningful and beautiful as hers are a gift from God through people's souls and Dottie must have been his main vessel.
I grew up in Southern Gospel Music traveling with the Sego Brothers and Naomi and was privileged to work many shows with Dottie and "The Rambos". Dottie wrote the Gospel the way it's supposed to be. So incredibly encouraging and inspiring, never condescending, judgmental, or exclusionary. Her words and music literally saved my life more than one time, as I'm sure they did many others. "This Is My Valley", "Too Much To Gain To Lose", "In the Valley He Restoreth My Soul", "Sheltered In the Arms of God" and so many others have and always will be a part of my life and my strength when I feel I can't take another step.
Dottie had a way of climbing back up from the bottom and through her songs showed others they not only could, but they MUST!
I can't help but be overwhelmed with sadness to know she is gone, but I rejoice in the knowledge that her trials are now over and SHE is safely "Sheltered In the Arms of God". Also that He gave us such a wonderful Lady with an amazing voice that surely touched more people in 74 years than any other human being that ever walked this Earth.
Earth's devastating loss is Heaven's gain.
"This house of flesh is but a prison
Bars of bone hold my soul
But the doors of clay are gonna burst wide open!
When the Angels set my spirit free!
I'll take my flight like the mighty eagle
When the Hills of Home start calling me..."
CAROLYN ABROM
May 20, 2008
MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE FAMILY..WHAT A LEGACY LEFT FOR US ALL, DOTTIE WAS TRULY AN EXAMPLE OF GREATNESS
Jean williams
May 20, 2008
May precious memories bring you comfort.
Dave and Duska Ruter
May 20, 2008
Our love and prayers go to you Reba & family your Mother touched our hearts everytime we seen her or heard her sing one of her great songs we miss her but God has a special saint in Heaven
Lisa Jones
May 20, 2008
You will truly be missed!
Lisa Jones NC
Tracy Loera
May 20, 2008
Thank you ABBA FATHER for another example of a 'child' of the living GOD that truly embraced her calling on this journey here called life; enduring to the very end, remaining faithful no matter the cost and the pain.
Now FATHER we ask in this time of separation, that you would wrap each of Dottie's family members as well as her beloved friends in YOUR arms, comfort them, and grant them YOUR peace and strength.
As heaven rejoices and those on earth mourn her departure; FATHER we know YOU have welcomed Dottie home where her heart has always been.
In JESUS' Name
AMEN
Beth Manns
May 20, 2008
May God be near all of your family during your suffering and loss.
La Sandra Fisher
May 20, 2008
I was truely blessed by mrs dottie in every way hersongs her preaching my favorite song she song was we shal behold him she will be truely missed
Joey Branham
May 20, 2008
May God comfort all of those who was touched by Dottie Rambo. This is hard enough for a fan, and harder for the family.
Nelda Smith
May 20, 2008
Dear sweet Dottie. How you will be missed, but knowing where you are makes me more homesick for heaven. I will see yoiu on the other side.
Brenda Covington
May 20, 2008
To Reba and Dottie's family:
We will all miss Dottie greatly. I was one of the choir members that sang with the choir from Jonathan Greer's church in Nashville, TN, when Dottie won her 1st Grammy. I remember songs like: Just Enough Heaven; Reach out for the Life line and A Healer Coming Down the Road.
The carpet for our church, Pentecostal Tabernacle, on 12th Ave. North & Clay Street was purchased by Dottie from that record. Novella Williams was the church's music director at that time.
Dottie has finished her music writing,
singing, and winning souls to Christ.
God has now said,"well done, thy good and faithful servent, come home"
Our Prayers are with your loving family today and always.
Dusty Osborne
May 20, 2008
Prayers go out to your family Reba. Dottie will be missed and I was able to play on stage with her in Morganfiled.. she was a wonderful lady. grew up with Dottie and Vestal now they are singing in glory.. My prayers also go out to Larry her manager whom Miss Dottie tursted, he was a God Send to her.. She will be missed dearly.. but her music will last forever.. she truly had a ANOINTED GIFT from JESUS CHRIST.. you could feel it each time she sang..
T Harris
May 20, 2008
May the Lord continue to comfort your family. Please know that our prayers are with you.
-The Harris Family
Annette Sawyer
May 20, 2008
Reba and family.......God give you comfort, strength and peace as you go through the next few days. HE is the source that we can depend on. I remember Dottie and your family coming to Elizabeth City to do a concert in the Central School...some of my family met ya'll to eat dinner before the concert and had a wonderful visit. God bless all of you.
Wanda Cole
May 20, 2008
Only eternity will reveal what Dottie Rambo and her gift have meant to the world. May her family and friends be comforted in knowing that she is forever "Sheltered in the Arms of God".
william david richardson
May 19, 2008
rest child your in god's hand's now.their truely ie peace in the valley for you. sincerely crockett.
Tina Reeves
May 19, 2008
Reba, Dony & family,
Praying for the ultimate comfort that can only come from God above. Your mother was a very special lady blessed with so much talent. She is missed greatly by her fans.
May you find comfort & peace in knowing that she is with the Lord that she loved so.
God Bless You All.
CRISELDA MARES
May 19, 2008
MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO REBA AND DONY AND FAMILY... DOTTIE WAS SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO ME SHE WILL BE MISSED
Kathy Russell
May 19, 2008
Reba and entire Rambo Family, my deepest heart felt prayers are with you all. Dottie was such an inspiration to me, I saw her as a young Christian and was never the same upon hearing her great songs and testimonies. She will and is even now deeply missed, but also deeply loved by all.
Rev. Katie Strachan
May 19, 2008
Reba and family,
Dottie touched so many hearts with her life and music. She will be missed by many here, but we know she will be singing in the Heavens.
w. sanders
May 19, 2008
Reba, thanks so much for sharing your mom with the whole world. what a blessing she was & will continue to be. I recently watched her on the Jim Bakker show, just days before her homegoing. She sang "new shoes" and changed a line in it to say: "I can hardly wait to hear Sister Vestal singing..." I have replayed the segment which I happened to have recorded, and wept at that line! Little did Ms. Dottie know that in a few short days she & Vestal would be praising together once again in the presence of the One she wrote of & so faithfully served! May your sweet memories be a comfort to you until you are with your Mother again in Glory!
Duane Lewis
May 19, 2008
My deepest sympathy to Reba and her family upon the loss of her saintly mother. Dottie's songs have been and always will be an inspiration to me--I sing them as I walk each afternoon around my small town---Dottie is in a better place but she leaves a legacy of songs that will forever comfort those here on earth! God bless you!
Arna Ramos
May 19, 2008
To The family of Dotti Rambo,
I pray for your family at this time of such great personal loss. Dottie was such in inspiration of triumph over the trials and tribulations that she went through. I also had the priviledge of meeting this great lady as well, she will be missed.
Betsy Maldonado
May 19, 2008
Dottie:
You were an inspiration while you were here. Now you are my role model to heaven's gate because your smile,faith,songs and love gave me the courage to go on.A mother,a wife and a servant of the most High. See you there .Enjoy being with Jesus! Until we meet.
Nathaniel Brown
May 19, 2008
Dear Reba and Family, you are in our prayers and you have our deepest sympathy. I met Dottie at a singing in Florence S.C. and instantly became a fan of hers. God needed a song writer for the angels and the Lord called Dottie home to fulfill the position. You are in our Prayers and God Bless you. We will miss her greatly.
Rev. Nathaniel "Nat" Brown
Brenda Yates
May 19, 2008
Prayers to everyone in the family. I am sad, but I wish I could see the celebration that is going on in the heavenlies. Oh, what a sight.
Jeanine Milner
May 19, 2008
Reba:
When I was a girl in a United Pentecostal Church in Waco, Texas the Singing Rambos were an inspiration to me. "Dottie Rambo" was who we all wanted to "look like" and of course "sing like." She was such a blessing and so are you. My husband and I were watching TBN just this week and truly enjoyed all the tributes to your mom. You're "just like her" and I know you're "proud to be!" Just know our thoughts and prayers are with your family. The Milners
Randall Hamlett
May 19, 2008
Dottie was an incredible gift of God to the Body of Christ. What an impact & difference she has made on countless lives across this nation. Her songs were inspired & anointed by God Himself and they will forever echo thru out this land and around the world as a testimony to the goodness of God and to His mercy. Because of her willingness to listen to the Spirit of God, He was able to develop her God given gift of telling a story thru song thus touching many a heart with some of the most anointed songs to ever fall from the lips of a human being. She will forever stand tall as one of the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Chris Pearson
May 19, 2008
Although Dottie's earthly loss is sad, heaven gaining her is great! I already miss Dottie but can't wait to reunite in heaven, someday soon, and sing those beautiful songs with her.
Wini Arnold
May 19, 2008
May Isaiah 57:1-2 comfort you.
Dear Father God, May Your love flow through to all of Dottie's family and friends during this time and Your protection and warmth wrap around each of them. May your robe wipe their tears and the blood of Your Son continue to give them strength that soon we will all be together. In Jesus Name. Amen
Doug, Rachel, Vanessa, Sherrie Wilson
May 19, 2008
The queen of music across many decades. She will be missed deeply but Praise God her Abundantly Awesome Voice of music lives on. An extremely overly Blessed Lady. Thank You for the Music you were so willing to received from our Lord.
RHEDA DOLINGER
May 19, 2008
Dottie Rambo ... no words to describe the beauty of such a soul, who was --so wonderful with words... Dottie, I love YOU!!! My dear friend, to me, you remain "The Pen of The Psalmist" I am grateful for the entrance of love, both HIS and yours that the gift of your friendship and artistry have brought into and shown upon my simple life. I will not miss you, for I carry you in the depth of my heart where you have left an indeliable fingerprint upon my being. Should my soul ever upon this journey become too heavy to look forward, I will hear your sweetest words in your sweetest voice... "Defeat is a word I'll never use for there is --too much to gain to Lose." Rheda
Ruby McKellar
May 19, 2008
I can't put the words together for such a great lady. She will be so missed,
I will keep remembering Reba and all her family.
God will comfort them in days to come. And we will keep on singing all of her songs Donald and Ruby McKellar
C.L. Duren
May 19, 2008
Dottie was an inspiration to me when I started writing lyrics. She told me not to just write some words. Let God give you the words it will write itself. This was when Dottie was living near Stone Mtn. Always gracious to everyone she met. Dottie knew no strangers!
Prayers to the family left behind.. You know where she is, one day soon everyone will be reunited with loved ones who crossed ahead of us.
May God continue to give all the family, friends, and fans the strength to continue on. If your hearts not right with God, talk to Him, He's waiting to hear from you.
Christian Love to all of you....
Deanna Gilbert
May 19, 2008
What an INSPIRATION lil Dottie showered this world with as she weathered life's challenges and victoriously composed life's celebrations. May her family be comforted by the Holy Spirit during this time of mourning. As we miss her, we can be refreshed by the living testimony of how she used God given talents in a creative way that glorified God and Blessed so many. Blessings to you, Deanna Helmer Gilbert
TIM MORIARTY
May 19, 2008
GOD BLESS THE RAMBOS WE LOVE YOU
Earsie Lanier
May 19, 2008
My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
Muriel Curtright
May 19, 2008
To all of the Rambo family you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Jerri Smith
May 19, 2008
Dear Reba and Family,
Dottie's music was a precious gift in my life. Her words helped me through a hard teenage life and even more as an adult. I was saved and baptized because of her gift of words
I was able to tell her that at her Nov. 3, 2007 concert in Wilson, NC. Standing so close in her presence was second only to standing before God Himself. She is without any dought in my mind with our Lord.
Know that you all (Larry and his family too) are all in my prayers. Broken bodies will heal, broken hearts take longer.
Love through Christ
angie pennock
May 19, 2008
dottie came to Jackson, MS years ago when I was first saved and did a women's conference for us...she said things I will never forget, as we continue to sing her words that will never be forgotten in this world's lifetime. Thank you for letting her give her life to service to her precious Jesus. We will see and sing with her soon again. Love, Angie
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