This is a lifetime of memories that will be packed into this one memorial. Please bear w/me while I go through pictures and my heart and add what I want people to remember me by and what I want people to know about me :) and besides that...I'm still here:)
My nickname as well as my email address is "MissBeth" w/the 1999 and that is because my husband called me MissBeth and we were married in 1999.
"Today as I think about the end of my journey being in the not-too-distant future, I feel no need for a funeral service with all its obligations. I do not want any funeral or any viewing of any kind. Everyone that cares, knows what I look like. Just remember our time together, the love, laughter, and sharing. If you feel you must do something in my memory, show someone preferably a child, the elderly or even an animal some extra kindness."
South Dakota| To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A TIME TO BE BORN...I was born at 9:44pm on 15 May,1963 at Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor, Maine to William and Alice. Shellhamer.I weighed 8lbs 11ozs and I was 21 inches long. I was the 6th born out of 7 children.
A TIME TO PLANT...I'm A Wooden Spoon Lead Paint No Car Seat No Seat Belt No Bike Helmet Bed Of Pickup Riding Garden Hose Drinking Survivor. I played w/Barbie dolls and played trucks w/my older brother, rode a bike that my brothers and the neighborhood kids built for me, complete w/ a banana seat and a sissy bar in the back, one of those tall one's. My Mom had a huge garden as well as a big apple orchard that produced the best Red delicious apples ever. I didn't like weeding the garden, but I didn't mind helping our neighbor w/theirs. Go figure, right? I went to church every Sunday morning and Sunday evening even if I didn't want to and was in the choir and a part of the youth group. I went to the Holden elementary school from K-4th grade then went to Holbrook middle school from 5th - 8th grade, finally graduating from Brewer High School, class of "82". I thought it was "cool" to mess around and skip school w/my friends and not do my homework and for that bad choice on my part, I wasn't able to graduate w/my class of "81" and had to go back to school for 1/2 credit. Yeap, you read it right, 1/2 credit. If I knew then what I know now I never would have done that dumb things I did. Live and learn, I guess.
A TIME TO LOVE...My 1st love was a dark haired, dark eyed handsome boy called Donnie. We spent summers hanging out when he came to visit his relatives at the lake down the road from my childhood home. He was involved in a God-awful motorcycle accident that broke nearly every bone in his body. I went to the hospital to visit him, and he was in so much pain and just wasn't the same person anymore. He yelled, hooted and hollered at me to leave and never come back so I respected his wishes and moved on w/my life. We were just kids so what did we know but...I never forgot him. We reconnected when he tracked me down on Facebook a couple of years ago and he's happily married, and we talk on occasion on the phone and of course on Facebook. I got engaged in my senior year of high school and graduated in "82" and was married on 28 November,1982 by the Justice of The Peace as my future Mother-in-law didn't believe in living together and not being married, even though she had no idea that we had eloped. We had a church wedding, complete w/ a beautiful wedding gown on 4 June,1983 in my hometown of Holden and in the same church that I went to when I was growing up. We had a beautiful baby girl in "91" but sadly after 16 1/2 years together, we parted ways. I married the love of my life, my best friend Don on 4/Dec/1999.Besides giving birth to my beautiful daughter, the 4th of December,1999 was the best day of my life. Don and I went to hell and back LITERALLY throughout the years of our life's shared together. Between his getting hit by a train, open heart surgery, breaking every bone in his foot he sure knew how to keep me on my toes :) We were two peas in a pod, and very rarely did you see one of us w/out the other as we pretty much did everything together. He taught me how to drive semi, shoot a gun, pan for gold but more than anything, he taught me what the true meaning of the word love was all about. Sure, we had our fair share of fights/disagreements, but we always got through it one way or another and our love for one another just continued to grow over the years and nothing or anybody could ever come between us, and God only knows that our love and faith in one another was tested believe me. My best friend, my husband, my everything left this world on 29 December,2014 from an aortic aneurysm that we had known was there for probably about 6 years before it ruptured and left me a widow. Don's love for me and his will to live are exemplified by the fact that he stayed with me long enough to tell me, "I Love you" one more time just moments before he was taken to his eternal home. He taught me what love was all about, but he also left me w/a broken heart but a ton of precious memories that neither time nor age can steal from me...I hope.
A TIME TO DIE...I left this world and was welcomed back into the loving arms of my best friend, my husband Don along w/all of those who left before me on ---- ,20-- in-----, South Dakota. I was--years young :)
I leave behind my beautiful daughter, her husband (the best son-in-law anyone could ever ask for) and my two precious grandsons (I love all of you to the moon and back). Numerous friends and family near and far as well as my 3 stepdaughters, numerous cousins, two nieces and four nephews. I'm also survived by my siblings, 3 sisters and 2 brothers.
I was predeceased by my beloved husband Don, my beloved parents, both sets of grandparents, my oldest brother Billy and my nephew Glenn as well as numerous Aunt's and Uncle's.
A TIME TO REMEMBER...How lucky I am having something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -- Winnie the Pooh
When I'm Gone
When I come to the end of my journey and I travel my last weary mile, just forget if you can that I ever frowned and remember only the smile. Forget unkind words that I have spoken; remember some good that I have done, forget that I ever had heartache and remember that I've had loads of fun. Forget that I've stumbled and blundered and sometimes fell by the way. Remember I have fought some hard battles and won ere the close of the day. Then forget to grieve for my going, I would not have you sad for a day, but in summer just gather some flowers, and remember the place where I lay, and come in the shade of the evening, when the sun paints the sky in the west, stand for a few moments beside me, and remember only my best. Author unknown.
My nickname as well as my email address is "MissBeth" w/the 1999 and that is because my husband called me MissBeth and we were married in 1999.
"Today as I think about the end of my journey being in the not-too-distant future, I feel no need for a funeral service with all its obligations. I do not want any funeral or any viewing of any kind. Everyone that cares, knows what I look like. Just remember our time together, the love, laughter, and sharing. If you feel you must do something in my memory, show someone preferably a child, the elderly or even an animal some extra kindness."
South Dakota| To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A TIME TO BE BORN...I was born at 9:44pm on 15 May,1963 at Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor, Maine to William and Alice. Shellhamer.I weighed 8lbs 11ozs and I was 21 inches long. I was the 6th born out of 7 children.
A TIME TO PLANT...I'm A Wooden Spoon Lead Paint No Car Seat No Seat Belt No Bike Helmet Bed Of Pickup Riding Garden Hose Drinking Survivor. I played w/Barbie dolls and played trucks w/my older brother, rode a bike that my brothers and the neighborhood kids built for me, complete w/ a banana seat and a sissy bar in the back, one of those tall one's. My Mom had a huge garden as well as a big apple orchard that produced the best Red delicious apples ever. I didn't like weeding the garden, but I didn't mind helping our neighbor w/theirs. Go figure, right? I went to church every Sunday morning and Sunday evening even if I didn't want to and was in the choir and a part of the youth group. I went to the Holden elementary school from K-4th grade then went to Holbrook middle school from 5th - 8th grade, finally graduating from Brewer High School, class of "82". I thought it was "cool" to mess around and skip school w/my friends and not do my homework and for that bad choice on my part, I wasn't able to graduate w/my class of "81" and had to go back to school for 1/2 credit. Yeap, you read it right, 1/2 credit. If I knew then what I know now I never would have done that dumb things I did. Live and learn, I guess.
A TIME TO LOVE...My 1st love was a dark haired, dark eyed handsome boy called Donnie. We spent summers hanging out when he came to visit his relatives at the lake down the road from my childhood home. He was involved in a God-awful motorcycle accident that broke nearly every bone in his body. I went to the hospital to visit him, and he was in so much pain and just wasn't the same person anymore. He yelled, hooted and hollered at me to leave and never come back so I respected his wishes and moved on w/my life. We were just kids so what did we know but...I never forgot him. We reconnected when he tracked me down on Facebook a couple of years ago and he's happily married, and we talk on occasion on the phone and of course on Facebook. I got engaged in my senior year of high school and graduated in "82" and was married on 28 November,1982 by the Justice of The Peace as my future Mother-in-law didn't believe in living together and not being married, even though she had no idea that we had eloped. We had a church wedding, complete w/ a beautiful wedding gown on 4 June,1983 in my hometown of Holden and in the same church that I went to when I was growing up. We had a beautiful baby girl in "91" but sadly after 16 1/2 years together, we parted ways. I married the love of my life, my best friend Don on 4/Dec/1999.Besides giving birth to my beautiful daughter, the 4th of December,1999 was the best day of my life. Don and I went to hell and back LITERALLY throughout the years of our life's shared together. Between his getting hit by a train, open heart surgery, breaking every bone in his foot he sure knew how to keep me on my toes :) We were two peas in a pod, and very rarely did you see one of us w/out the other as we pretty much did everything together. He taught me how to drive semi, shoot a gun, pan for gold but more than anything, he taught me what the true meaning of the word love was all about. Sure, we had our fair share of fights/disagreements, but we always got through it one way or another and our love for one another just continued to grow over the years and nothing or anybody could ever come between us, and God only knows that our love and faith in one another was tested believe me. My best friend, my husband, my everything left this world on 29 December,2014 from an aortic aneurysm that we had known was there for probably about 6 years before it ruptured and left me a widow. Don's love for me and his will to live are exemplified by the fact that he stayed with me long enough to tell me, "I Love you" one more time just moments before he was taken to his eternal home. He taught me what love was all about, but he also left me w/a broken heart but a ton of precious memories that neither time nor age can steal from me...I hope.
A TIME TO DIE...I left this world and was welcomed back into the loving arms of my best friend, my husband Don along w/all of those who left before me on ---- ,20-- in-----, South Dakota. I was--years young :)
I leave behind my beautiful daughter, her husband (the best son-in-law anyone could ever ask for) and my two precious grandsons (I love all of you to the moon and back). Numerous friends and family near and far as well as my 3 stepdaughters, numerous cousins, two nieces and four nephews. I'm also survived by my siblings, 3 sisters and 2 brothers.
I was predeceased by my beloved husband Don, my beloved parents, both sets of grandparents, my oldest brother Billy and my nephew Glenn as well as numerous Aunt's and Uncle's.
A TIME TO REMEMBER...How lucky I am having something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -- Winnie the Pooh
When I'm Gone
When I come to the end of my journey and I travel my last weary mile, just forget if you can that I ever frowned and remember only the smile. Forget unkind words that I have spoken; remember some good that I have done, forget that I ever had heartache and remember that I've had loads of fun. Forget that I've stumbled and blundered and sometimes fell by the way. Remember I have fought some hard battles and won ere the close of the day. Then forget to grieve for my going, I would not have you sad for a day, but in summer just gather some flowers, and remember the place where I lay, and come in the shade of the evening, when the sun paints the sky in the west, stand for a few moments beside me, and remember only my best. Author unknown.
This is a lifetime of memories that will be packed into this one memorial. Please bear w/me while I go through pictures and my heart and add what I want people to remember me by and what I want people to know about me :) and besides that...I'm still here:)
My nickname as well as my email address is "MissBeth" w/the 1999 and that is because my husband called me MissBeth and we were married in 1999.
"Today as I think about the end of my journey being in the not-too-distant future, I feel no need for a funeral service with all its obligations. I do not want any funeral or any viewing of any kind. Everyone that cares, knows what I look like. Just remember our time together, the love, laughter, and sharing. If you feel you must do something in my memory, show someone preferably a child, the elderly or even an animal some extra kindness."
South Dakota| To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A TIME TO BE BORN...I was born at 9:44pm on 15 May,1963 at Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor, Maine to William and Alice. Shellhamer.I weighed 8lbs 11ozs and I was 21 inches long. I was the 6th born out of 7 children.
A TIME TO PLANT...I'm A Wooden Spoon Lead Paint No Car Seat No Seat Belt No Bike Helmet Bed Of Pickup Riding Garden Hose Drinking Survivor. I played w/Barbie dolls and played trucks w/my older brother, rode a bike that my brothers and the neighborhood kids built for me, complete w/ a banana seat and a sissy bar in the back, one of those tall one's. My Mom had a huge garden as well as a big apple orchard that produced the best Red delicious apples ever. I didn't like weeding the garden, but I didn't mind helping our neighbor w/theirs. Go figure, right? I went to church every Sunday morning and Sunday evening even if I didn't want to and was in the choir and a part of the youth group. I went to the Holden elementary school from K-4th grade then went to Holbrook middle school from 5th - 8th grade, finally graduating from Brewer High School, class of "82". I thought it was "cool" to mess around and skip school w/my friends and not do my homework and for that bad choice on my part, I wasn't able to graduate w/my class of "81" and had to go back to school for 1/2 credit. Yeap, you read it right, 1/2 credit. If I knew then what I know now I never would have done that dumb things I did. Live and learn, I guess.
A TIME TO LOVE...My 1st love was a dark haired, dark eyed handsome boy called Donnie. We spent summers hanging out when he came to visit his relatives at the lake down the road from my childhood home. He was involved in a God-awful motorcycle accident that broke nearly every bone in his body. I went to the hospital to visit him, and he was in so much pain and just wasn't the same person anymore. He yelled, hooted and hollered at me to leave and never come back so I respected his wishes and moved on w/my life. We were just kids so what did we know but...I never forgot him. We reconnected when he tracked me down on Facebook a couple of years ago and he's happily married, and we talk on occasion on the phone and of course on Facebook. I got engaged in my senior year of high school and graduated in "82" and was married on 28 November,1982 by the Justice of The Peace as my future Mother-in-law didn't believe in living together and not being married, even though she had no idea that we had eloped. We had a church wedding, complete w/ a beautiful wedding gown on 4 June,1983 in my hometown of Holden and in the same church that I went to when I was growing up. We had a beautiful baby girl in "91" but sadly after 16 1/2 years together, we parted ways. I married the love of my life, my best friend Don on 4/Dec/1999.Besides giving birth to my beautiful daughter, the 4th of December,1999 was the best day of my life. Don and I went to hell and back LITERALLY throughout the years of our life's shared together. Between his getting hit by a train, open heart surgery, breaking every bone in his foot he sure knew how to keep me on my toes :) We were two peas in a pod, and very rarely did you see one of us w/out the other as we pretty much did everything together. He taught me how to drive semi, shoot a gun, pan for gold but more than anything, he taught me what the true meaning of the word love was all about. Sure, we had our fair share of fights/disagreements, but we always got through it one way or another and our love for one another just continued to grow over the years and nothing or anybody could ever come between us, and God only knows that our love and faith in one another was tested believe me. My best friend, my husband, my everything left this world on 29 December,2014 from an aortic aneurysm that we had known was there for probably about 6 years before it ruptured and left me a widow. Don's love for me and his will to live are exemplified by the fact that he stayed with me long enough to tell me, "I Love you" one more time just moments before he was taken to his eternal home. He taught me what love was all about, but he also left me w/a broken heart but a ton of precious memories that neither time nor age can steal from me...I hope.
A TIME TO DIE...I left this world and was welcomed back into the loving arms of my best friend, my husband Don along w/all of those who left before me on ---- ,20-- in-----, South Dakota. I was--years young :)
I leave behind my beautiful daughter, her husband (the best son-in-law anyone could ever ask for) and my two precious grandsons (I love all of you to the moon and back). Numerous friends and family near and far as well as my 3 stepdaughters, numerous cousins, two nieces and four nephews. I'm also survived by my siblings, 3 sisters and 2 brothers.
I was predeceased by my beloved husband Don, my beloved parents, both sets of grandparents, my oldest brother Billy and my nephew Glenn as well as numerous Aunt's and Uncle's.
A TIME TO REMEMBER...How lucky I am having something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -- Winnie the Pooh
When I'm Gone
When I come to the end of my journey and I travel my last weary mile, just forget if you can that I ever frowned and remember only the smile. Forget unkind words that I have spoken; remember some good that I have done, forget that I ever had heartache and remember that I've had loads of fun. Forget that I've stumbled and blundered and sometimes fell by the way. Remember I have fought some hard battles and won ere the close of the day. Then forget to grieve for my going, I would not have you sad for a day, but in summer just gather some flowers, and remember the place where I lay, and come in the shade of the evening, when the sun paints the sky in the west, stand for a few moments beside me, and remember only my best. Author unknown.
My nickname as well as my email address is "MissBeth" w/the 1999 and that is because my husband called me MissBeth and we were married in 1999.
"Today as I think about the end of my journey being in the not-too-distant future, I feel no need for a funeral service with all its obligations. I do not want any funeral or any viewing of any kind. Everyone that cares, knows what I look like. Just remember our time together, the love, laughter, and sharing. If you feel you must do something in my memory, show someone preferably a child, the elderly or even an animal some extra kindness."
South Dakota| To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A TIME TO BE BORN...I was born at 9:44pm on 15 May,1963 at Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor, Maine to William and Alice. Shellhamer.I weighed 8lbs 11ozs and I was 21 inches long. I was the 6th born out of 7 children.
A TIME TO PLANT...I'm A Wooden Spoon Lead Paint No Car Seat No Seat Belt No Bike Helmet Bed Of Pickup Riding Garden Hose Drinking Survivor. I played w/Barbie dolls and played trucks w/my older brother, rode a bike that my brothers and the neighborhood kids built for me, complete w/ a banana seat and a sissy bar in the back, one of those tall one's. My Mom had a huge garden as well as a big apple orchard that produced the best Red delicious apples ever. I didn't like weeding the garden, but I didn't mind helping our neighbor w/theirs. Go figure, right? I went to church every Sunday morning and Sunday evening even if I didn't want to and was in the choir and a part of the youth group. I went to the Holden elementary school from K-4th grade then went to Holbrook middle school from 5th - 8th grade, finally graduating from Brewer High School, class of "82". I thought it was "cool" to mess around and skip school w/my friends and not do my homework and for that bad choice on my part, I wasn't able to graduate w/my class of "81" and had to go back to school for 1/2 credit. Yeap, you read it right, 1/2 credit. If I knew then what I know now I never would have done that dumb things I did. Live and learn, I guess.
A TIME TO LOVE...My 1st love was a dark haired, dark eyed handsome boy called Donnie. We spent summers hanging out when he came to visit his relatives at the lake down the road from my childhood home. He was involved in a God-awful motorcycle accident that broke nearly every bone in his body. I went to the hospital to visit him, and he was in so much pain and just wasn't the same person anymore. He yelled, hooted and hollered at me to leave and never come back so I respected his wishes and moved on w/my life. We were just kids so what did we know but...I never forgot him. We reconnected when he tracked me down on Facebook a couple of years ago and he's happily married, and we talk on occasion on the phone and of course on Facebook. I got engaged in my senior year of high school and graduated in "82" and was married on 28 November,1982 by the Justice of The Peace as my future Mother-in-law didn't believe in living together and not being married, even though she had no idea that we had eloped. We had a church wedding, complete w/ a beautiful wedding gown on 4 June,1983 in my hometown of Holden and in the same church that I went to when I was growing up. We had a beautiful baby girl in "91" but sadly after 16 1/2 years together, we parted ways. I married the love of my life, my best friend Don on 4/Dec/1999.Besides giving birth to my beautiful daughter, the 4th of December,1999 was the best day of my life. Don and I went to hell and back LITERALLY throughout the years of our life's shared together. Between his getting hit by a train, open heart surgery, breaking every bone in his foot he sure knew how to keep me on my toes :) We were two peas in a pod, and very rarely did you see one of us w/out the other as we pretty much did everything together. He taught me how to drive semi, shoot a gun, pan for gold but more than anything, he taught me what the true meaning of the word love was all about. Sure, we had our fair share of fights/disagreements, but we always got through it one way or another and our love for one another just continued to grow over the years and nothing or anybody could ever come between us, and God only knows that our love and faith in one another was tested believe me. My best friend, my husband, my everything left this world on 29 December,2014 from an aortic aneurysm that we had known was there for probably about 6 years before it ruptured and left me a widow. Don's love for me and his will to live are exemplified by the fact that he stayed with me long enough to tell me, "I Love you" one more time just moments before he was taken to his eternal home. He taught me what love was all about, but he also left me w/a broken heart but a ton of precious memories that neither time nor age can steal from me...I hope.
A TIME TO DIE...I left this world and was welcomed back into the loving arms of my best friend, my husband Don along w/all of those who left before me on ---- ,20-- in-----, South Dakota. I was--years young :)
I leave behind my beautiful daughter, her husband (the best son-in-law anyone could ever ask for) and my two precious grandsons (I love all of you to the moon and back). Numerous friends and family near and far as well as my 3 stepdaughters, numerous cousins, two nieces and four nephews. I'm also survived by my siblings, 3 sisters and 2 brothers.
I was predeceased by my beloved husband Don, my beloved parents, both sets of grandparents, my oldest brother Billy and my nephew Glenn as well as numerous Aunt's and Uncle's.
A TIME TO REMEMBER...How lucky I am having something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -- Winnie the Pooh
When I'm Gone
When I come to the end of my journey and I travel my last weary mile, just forget if you can that I ever frowned and remember only the smile. Forget unkind words that I have spoken; remember some good that I have done, forget that I ever had heartache and remember that I've had loads of fun. Forget that I've stumbled and blundered and sometimes fell by the way. Remember I have fought some hard battles and won ere the close of the day. Then forget to grieve for my going, I would not have you sad for a day, but in summer just gather some flowers, and remember the place where I lay, and come in the shade of the evening, when the sun paints the sky in the west, stand for a few moments beside me, and remember only my best. Author unknown.
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