Gladys Kearns - Online Memorial Website

As we apparaoch the holidays I cant help but to think of you Granny! I miss you so much as so many of us do, I was talking to you this time last year. I am sad, because I can not hear your voice right now, I can not hear your laugh...I can imagine it, and remember it. All the good times...I am sad, yet I know you are here, some where, you are watching over us and looking down at us. I know it is selfish but I want my granny back! I want to hug her, i want to tell her that i love her and that she means theh world to me. I spoke to Betty today, and she has a tree for granny, Granny always loved to put her Christmas things up, and she asked Betty to remember that she set it up each year. Betty struggled with putting it up and questioned if she should and I told her along with others to do it, Granny would want that, I suggested getting a small tree to put near Granny's resting place...Betty cant get up there to do it, the grave is full of snow. But Betty Granny knows...she knows you got it and she knows you want to put it there but cant. It snowed in VA and granny would have loved it. Not getting out of her road but she would have loved to see it. I miss my granny more then anything I want to see her again, smell her again, hear here again. I love you granny :( Merry Christmas.

Mom,

 

I think about you all of the time. I was told by someone very special in my life that it might help if I write things down and I figured who better else to write too!! I still want to pick up the phone and call you but I know that if I want to talk to you then all I have to do is look up at the sky and talk to you that way. I have been going through alot of anxiety lately and as I remember you always saying I am always worrying about things that I should not worry about. Well, I have been worrying alot about so many things and I need to get control of all of them. I was thinking to myself earlier today that the only way that I can really get through this is with Jesus and your help. Tina has been helping me so much through all of this and I thank God for her every day. I keep telling myself that things will be okay and I know that eventually they will. You and Dad raised all of us kids to be strong and I will eventually get back to the strong Betty -Lynn that I used to be. I have the support of alot of people, including the most important one of all who is Jesus and I WILL GET THROUGH IT, JUST AS YOU ALWAYS USED TO TELL ME. I will do my very best because I know that is the way that you would want me to be. I Love You so much and I will make you so very proud of me. I PROMISE!!

 

Love

Betty-Lynn     

Please accept our deepest condolences at this time to the entire Kearns family, but especially to Audra and Kylie, our very special Grand-Daughter, and their entire family.

Mom (Granny)

 

Wish you were here. We miss you DEARLY and there is so much I needed to say.

SO LISTEN UP!  Because I know you can hear me. We love you so very much and things will never be the same without you.

 

I always thought you were the GREATEST MOST UNBELIEVEABLE PERSON IN THE WORLD AND COULD HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD TO HAVE A MOTHER LIKE YOU TO CALL         MOM

WE LOVE YOU MOM!!!!!!!!

Billy, DeAnna and Rachael

To you all, her family, she was the best of the mom's, grandmom's, but to me she was a light in a dark tunnel.  I came to a new job and was pretty unsure of myself.  I had just been thru the worst event of my life, my daughter's passing.  One day Glayds and I were talking and she innocently asked me if I had any children, after telling me all about her wonderful family.  I tear came out of my eye.  She then leaned over to ask me if I was ok, and I told her my story.  She was so taken and had such kind words.  She told me it was going to be ok, as you can imagine I had heard that so much, but it was the look on her face, the look in her eye, I knew she knew, I just couldn't believe it.  Well years passed and Gladys and I were fast friends, she was such a great co worker, she always had the answer or would work it thru with me to figure a problem out.  So when I go pregnant again, she was just so happy. Funny thing is right when I was going on maternity leave, Gladys was retiring.  We were leaving at the same time.  While my journey was extremly hard, my daughter was born April 14th of this year.  When I came back from maternity, I wanted to bring her out, but one thing or another always got in the way and I never made it out to see her.  While I was at the funeral the thought passed me that Gladys was right and she knew long before me, it was going to be ok.  I wished the same for her.  I wanted her family to know that story and to know that she was as meaningful to perfect strangers as to her own family.

My thoughts and prayers are with all of you, but most of all they are with Gladys hoping she is up there with my little girl making sure she is ok. 

Angelique

 

Mom, I have learned so much of you since you have gone. Daddy has filled me in on the many times you worried about us and made sure we were OK. Maybe I did not worry enough about you. I figured you were invincible and you would always be here. I am your oldest daughter and have come to realized I am not strong. This would be you. I will love you forever!

Ryland, I am so sorry that Gladys passed away. I was away last week traveling and just found out this morning when returning to work. I loved Gladys with all my heart and I don't know what I will do without her smile and committee to our little business. I am just sick that I did not know this before now. I would have made arrangements to be there for her. Please know that you and your children are in our hearts and prayers. Love, Risse and Keith Snelgrove

I'm sorry for the loss of your Wife,Mother,Daughter,Sister, Grandmother and Great Grandmother. Gladys was a wonderful loving woman who will be missed by many. You are in my prayers. God Bless you all

My Dear Mom,

 

I still wake up each morning and look around the room for the phone so I can call you early and see how you are feeling. I have so many cherished memories of our time together and in a sense the memories are holding me together and yet they are tearing me apart. All of our Saturday morning outings that we had were so special to me. I laugh when I think of them but at the same time I cry and get so very angry that you are gone. I wish I could just scream to the top of my lungs and ask the same question that I am sure everyone else is asking "WHY?" I know that you are with the Angels now and you are with God and you are not hurting anymore. That is what is most important. I felt so very helpless when you were so ill. I know that you and I shared alot of things and I will continue to share all of the same things with you. You were and always will be such an inspiration to me. I promise to finish all of the baby quilts for the new grandbaby's. Don't worry about anything. You raised us to be strong and we will not let you down!!! I LOVE YOU

 I love you always and forever Granny! There is not a day that will not go by when I will not miss her, but I know she is with me always and I will see her again one day. My granny was a wonderful person