"WHISPERS FROM HEAVEN"

Dad and mom moved to Illinois, when my oldest brother was just small.. He started working on the Burlington Railroad.. He worked there for 25 years then they transfered him to Aurora Il.
Dad said the kids are almost out of high school and he did not want to take and move us. He tried driving for awhile but, it was getting hard on him. So they had a new factory come into town called Motor Wheel..
So he started to work there. Dad worked there for 13 years and then one day he started not feeling very well. made several trips to the doctor and finally went to Rockford, Il. ran test..Told us Dad would be fine and there should be no trouble going through the operation.. So we waited. Operation was over.. the doctor came out and told us that daddy had cancer and it was all over his stomach. and no surgery could get it all.
Then the treatments started. dad was 54 at this time.. So many times we would start out for the hospital 1 1/2 hours away and he would get sick on the way,.. So home we would go then start over again.. it was a long hard road for him and the family....

Then of course the end came and God and the angels came and took my father at the age of 59.

Some of the memories are so clear yet today..We loved our father.and his memories still lives on inside of us. Dad has been deceased now for 21 years Aug 27th..
My daughter was 9 and had a hard time dealing with the loss of her grandfather.. She said " I don't want him in that big house " so she was going up their and sit with him.

Then the story came..Melissa that is the image of your grandfather and his soul is in heaven and you have to pray to him..So go over to the fair and ride the tallest ride you can and wave to grandpa as you get to the top and talk to him from your heart he will hear you..She rode the double farriswheel .
She rode that ride till midnight and went back for the next 4 days to ride it over and over.. But it helped her and that is how she dealt with losing her grandfather..
among praying at night and talking to him..She told me that she saw grandpa in her room and she talked to him a couple years later. Yes I beleive that this could happen.

My father was a the greatest father anyone could have.. Mom and him always had a big garden , not hardely a weed in it.. I think they could have raised about anything.. when dad was sick he grew tobacco yes; we have a picture of it.. Oh we had everything ,potatoes,rasberries,blackberries,asparagus..etc.. I remember washing the potatoes and the boys dug them..we washed them and laid them on the blanket to dry then put in baskets and in the basement for winter. We even sold some of the vegetables and fruit to the grocery store.We even sold stuff to make cash to go to the fair.. Mom and Dad just worked together.

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Dad would leave a suprise in his lunch pail so when we meet dad after work we would grab his lunch pail maybe a left over sandwich or a cup cake..never knew. He always had to watch the 5:00pm news; after that we could watch what we wanted..I can remember dad watching Red Skellton and the 3 Stooges and Abbott and Costello..I can hear his laughter now.. oh yes; Ma Pa Kettle too.
There was always something going on.. We got a go Kart and would ride it in the street but, there was a lady that would always turn us in.. Because we rode it in the street. So it got to the point the police just told us not to do it anymore.. So we had a track made around the garden.. we were always working on that thing.. that is how we learned to repair small enginees..& lawn mowers also..

Then 2 of the boys had to go in the service.. Mom and Dad worried alot about the boys.. Yes; it was hard for them to leave home.. It was hard when the oldest son got married and just moved down the road and he would drive by and honk the horn. Mom said it was hard to see your first child leave home.. When we were misbehaving and in trouble if we could tell daddy a joke and get him distracted he would put the belt in his pocket and take it to work.. I don't remember too many spankings.. maybe the boys do.. We even had a paper route.. all of us deleiverd the papers; Mom would start folding them this special way. so as soon as we got home from school we could get started..

Mom passed away on Aug.17,2001 and dad passed away 21 years ago this Aug. 26th.. Her birthday is Sept. 1st . She waited close to the passing of my father..they say if you love someone dearly they will wait for a certain time.. Mainly mom and dad was the best parents that anyone could have.. And I dearly loved them both.. and they both are dearly missed; GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU; {I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY}. A-MEN

"GOD IS WITH THEE IN ALL THAT THOU DOEST.
"GENESIS 21:22

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