AMERICA Prayer Vigil ping!
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.
Your Sheila sounds like a lovely woman. My prayers are with you.
May God rest her soul and give comfort to her and those who loved her.
Please add her to the Free Republic Memorial Page.
Well done, O good and faithful servant. Her day done, may she go gently to her good rest.
God Bless you Jim.
May she rest in peace and may God give you the strength to cope with your loss.
Again I’m so sorry Jim. Prayers up for you and the family.....a I pray the sting of the loss will be lessened a bit by the fact that you will be with your beloved Sheila again some day.....
My sincerest condolences for your loss, Jim. You and Sheila will indeed meet again one day.
:( Your little Bud.((((Hugs)))
Prayers up for you and the family.
What a lovely tribute to a lovely person and ardent patriot. So glad to have met her on one of your jaunts to DC. God rest her soul, and comfort you and your sons, dear Jim.
My heart and prayers go out to you and your loved ones friend.
God bless.
So sorry for you loss. God bless.
We prayed for you and yours Jim. May God shower you all with the grace you will need in this terrible time.
Dear Jim,
What a beautiful tribute to your beloved wife.
May Our Dear Lord comfort you during this awful time.
Love,
Mary-Lou
Prayers for all.
A beautiful tribute. May God bless you and your family.
HOLY FATHER, we pray that countless others find such joy in
life as Shelia and Jim. Asking You surround Shelia with Angels and song, lifting her up to join You in Spirit.
Praise be to JESUS.
Amen.
God bless you, dear Jim.
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