Posted on 11/28/2020 2:04:53 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Dear FRiends, Arrangements have been made with Whitehurst, Sullivan. Burns and Blair to lay my beloved wife Sheila to rest at 1:30, Wednesday, December 2 at Fresno Memorial Gardens. It will be a small graveside service with friends and family.
We selected a site that is very near where my mother and father and sister Thelma are buried. It's a small plot, but there is room there for me, too, someday.
This is by far the hardest and most heartbreaking thing I've ever done. Sheila was the light of my life. She loved God, loved life, and she loved nature and God's church of the greater outdoors.
Sheila was born November 15, 1950 in Fresno, CA. to Eino and Ruth Kulju of Reedley, CA. She went home to our Lord, whom she loved very much, on November 18, 2020, just three days past her 70th birthday and five months and five days after we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.
She grew up on a farm in Reedley where her father was foreman. As a little girl, she loved the freedom of farm life where she could climb trees and run barefoot with her dog through the orchards and vineyards. Her father grew a family orchard and garden in the yard of their home and she enjoyed plucking and eating juicy ripe peaches, plums and grapes fresh from the trees and vines and tomatoes, green onions and vegetables from the garden.
Her grandparents, Isaac and Katie Kulju, immigrated here from Finland sometime after the turn of the century--fleeing the Russians as the story goes. They settled and lived about 30 years on a farm on the west side of the Kings River, just north of the Manning Ave bridge that crosses over into Reedley. They were killed in 1937 on the way to church when their car was struck by a train.
Sheila was a patriot who loved America and loved freedom. We spent a large part of our last twenty years together traveling by van and RV, attending conservative events, rallies and protests from city to city and state to state. We ended up visiting every one of the contiguous 48.
We are laying her to rest dressed in one of her favorite patriotic shirts and hat and her stars and stripes earrings that she liked to wear to rallies. She'll also have her bible that was given to her by her Aunt Lina when she was in high school, and a flag she had hanging on the mirror of her dresser.
I thank God for the 50 loving years we shared together and our two wonderful sons He gave us.
...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part... and thus we are parted, my dear Sheila, but through the grace of God, we shall meet again some glorious day.
Dear God, I love and miss her so. Always will.
Thank you all very much for your support, your love and your prayers.
God bless.
You are one of our Lord’s beloved children of light Jim. We know this by the way He blessed you with such a loving wife, friend, and helpmate and you with a great heart with which to cherish her and love the Lord our God. Sheila is now in the 3rd heaven, a place of both spirit and physical, for the Lord Jesus dwells there in his resurrected physical body. Think of her there walking and talking with the Lord and beholding with wondrous eyes the unimaginable beauty and glory of heaven-—its flowers never before seen, colors never before seen, birds making music never before heard, choirs of angels and saints. All of this but a prelude to paradise restored.
Prayers to you and your family.
..may the Lord Jesus fill every empty place, heal every hurt, and cover you with His Love, Jim— you continue to be an inspiration to Americans everywhere...
I’m sorry for your family’s loss. Thank you for sharing her story with us. God will surely be kind to her.
Thank you for expressing not only the pain and sorrow of this terrible (and temporary!) loss, but the love and faith you shared and that will carry you through until you meet again. I will continue to pray for you and your family and will be thinking about Sheila and the moving things you wrote when she is laid to rest on Wednesday.
God bless you, Jim.
Sincere condolences. Rest in Peace.
God needs angels. Know that our prayers are with you.
Jim,
My heart is heavy for your loss. My prayers go up to God on your behalf.
Jesus promised: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever loves and believes in Me shall never die....”
May God’s promises and Presence carry and sustain you in the journey ahead.
Pastor Jim
GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY, Jim.....PRAYERS.
😪🥀💖
Prayers with the knowledge that a glorious reunion awaits.
My deepest condolences, Jim. May God bring peace upon you through these troubling times.
We are so sorry Jim, deepest condolence. Prayers ascending for you and family...
We are so sorry Jim, deepest condolence. Prayers ascending for you and family...
May God be with you and your family. Sincere sympathy for you Jim.
Prayers to you and your family.
I’m sorry to hear about this, Jim.
She will be missed by many.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and my prayers four you and your family.
May the God of peace and love wrap His loving arms around Sheila and take her into His care. For your family I pray that He will comfort you all in your loss. We serve a living and loving God! Peace and comfort in your days ahead. God bless.
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