Doug and Family,
I am so sorry to learn of Pam’s passing and extend my deepest sympathies. We got to know Pam and Doug as they always sat behind us at the early service at Mt Zion UMC. Pam became a good friend to my mother as well as me and was very helpful to both of us especially during the last 13 months of challenges my mother endured. I am including a photo of Minerva and Pam standing together with big smiles and a bouquet of flowers handpicked from my mother’s garden in what became known as Minerva's “signature vase”. The picture was taken May 7th, 2019, which was during the time my mother had broken her neck and was wearing a neck brace. I can’t help but imagine that they are both once again standing side by side, smiling, laughing, reminiscing and free of their earthly challenges and restrictions that they endured during their lives this side of heaven. And I can also imagine that my mother, Minerva, was there waiting to greet Pam and give her a beautiful Heavenly bouquet handpicked from God’s Garden.
In the words of William Wordsworth “That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”