This memorial website was created in memory of Marti Light, born on
September 23, 1945 and passed away on July 17, 2014.
We will love her and remember her forever.
Please help us share the love by adding tributes, stories and photos to our memorial website for mom
Please join us for a Memorial Service to Celebrate Marti's Life
Friday, August 22, 2014
10:00 am Service (church will open at 9am)
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
A luncheon will immediately follow from 11:30 - 1:30pm at
Washtenaw Country Club
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
If you would like to make a donation, please do so in the
Memory of Martha J. Light
to the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org ,
the American Heart Association at https://donate.heart.org
or the charity of your choice
Tributes
Leave a tributeI beautiful Cardinal landed on the fence, right across the pool from me this evening, the trees behind, with the sunset shining through! Absolute perfection, on your birthday. I just barely missed getting a picture, but I will forever remember the special moment!
Also, a few weeks ago, out in the middle of Lake Texoma, while boating, a beautiful Monarch butterfly flew right up to us and stayed near for a little bit! We loved it! So many signs of our sweet Mom!
Love you and miss you always!!!!!
We miss your bright beautiful smile and getting to hear all you would have to say about the crazy year 2020 has been! Miss you so very, very much and love you always
We are so thankful that my Dad has been going the extra mile, literally (the grandkids are in California, Texas and Michigan) to attend all of these graduations and random other events along the way. We miss you so much sweet mom, and we thank you so much Dad.
Gone much too soon Mama. We love you and we miss you always.
we will always remember.
Sue and Blake
You left us too soon Mama, we sure weren't ready, and still aren't. But we are forever thankful for the memories. Through your actions you taught us strength, integrity, caring, loving, kind heartedness, and what it means to put family first, and loyalty in friendships for life (and a loyal Spartan for life! (Same here!) ). You taught us that, and so much more! Such a truly wonderful lady, a true friend and the best mom ever! I feel honored and blessed when people say I am just like my mom! Thank you. Love you always and forever!
I miss mom so very much. Each day there is something I come across that reminds me of her, or something I wish I could show her or call her and share with her. She would be so proud of all her grandchildren continue to accomplish, just wish she was here to share the joy. I do know though, as she can not be here in November, she would be very proud and happy that dad has stepped up, on his own, and offered to stay with Kristen while we are out of town for the week. As he gets ready for the trip to Texas, and as he hangs out with her, attends soccer games, cooks for, and drives Kristen around, I am certain he will be hearing mom voice and she will be with him, as she has stayed with the kids so many times for us over the years. I really means a lot to us.
To your 70th birthday mom, you are the best, we love you, we miss you, now, forever, and always :)
She rests in peace.
Blake and Sue
Our thoughts and prayers are focused on Dan and his Family and, we too, shall miss that smile and dynamite energy from such a tiny package.
Dave & Judy Mitchell
God bless her.......
Prayers and thoughts to Dan and family.
Amy Geiss- Haggerty
I always admired and respected Dan as a manager and family man.
But I also admired and respected Marti for her spirit,
great smile and obvious devotion and support for her daughters
and Dan. I know Dan and his family will miss her dearly.
One day short of 50 years married to Dan, wonderful in and of itself. Our prayers are with Marti, Dan and family. God bless you all.
Leave a Tribute
I beautiful Cardinal landed on the fence, right across the pool from me this evening, the trees behind, with the sunset shining through! Absolute perfection, on your birthday. I just barely missed getting a picture, but I will forever remember the special moment!
Also, a few weeks ago, out in the middle of Lake Texoma, while boating, a beautiful Monarch butterfly flew right up to us and stayed near for a little bit! We loved it! So many signs of our sweet Mom!
Love you and miss you always!!!!!
Grammy is such an amazing person with everthing she does and I have so many nice memories with grammy so I decided to choose the two most important ones which are her always taking me to Michael's to get whatever crafting things I wanted to get, one time she helped me make a scrapbook and she also helped me paint ornaments the way she used to do it. that was an important one but something even better is how much she would bake with me, we made Nestle chocalate chip cookies, but the best thing she made is the pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving with homemade crust which was the best part,my mom would never do that!!She would let me do all the fun stuff.Grammy was such an amazing person and I wish I told her that, I definetly would not do what I do today without all of the encouragement from the one and only grammy!!!
I had a whole bunch of memories i was gonna write about here, but then this one popped up and i knew it was the right one. Every time that Grammy and Papa came to visit us, my sisters and I would wake up before her, go downstairs to their room quietly, and say BOO!!!, to wake her up. Then of course she came out, got her coffee and peanut butter toast, and turned on the Today show. I know now that waking her up before she wanted to was kind of rude, but she was always nice about it. She was always just a really nice person, and a great grandma to all of us.
Oh, and I noticed that in the "Her Life" tab, her Key Lime Pie was left out, that was always my favorite.
:-)
Grammy was a beautiful person inside and out. She was kind and thoughtful and never passed up an opportunity to see any of us play a soccer game. The number of games, tournaments, and practices that she attended was more than any of us will ever be able to count. Aside from my mom and dad, her and papa truly were our number one fans. She loved sporting our team t-shirts around whether it was McKinney Boyd, Texas Tech, or A&M. Even if it meant she had to rotate which one she wore while she was with us to avoid favoritism of the friendly rivaliries between Jeffrey and I. It was the little things she always did to make us happy. When grammy and papa came to town I always knew there was going to be a lot of laughs going around too. Every morning I would wake up and come downstairs to see grammy eating two pieces of cinnamon swirl toast and drinking a cup of coffee at the kitchen table in her robe. Sometimes the cinnamon swirl toast would be substitued for peanut butter toast if we were out. I remember how much she loved eating that every morning because she said she coud never find that bread in California. Usually, you could find the morning paper next to her on the table as well. All of these things always reminded me of when grammy came to town because we never had cinnamon toast at the house, no one ever brewed coffee- they would just go to starbucks, and I didn't even know we got the paper at our house still. But the smell of fresh coffee and the sound of the paper crinkling when grammy read it always set the scene for when she was there. That image is something that I will never forget and will never leave my brain. She also loved to share with us what she read in the paper. To a point that it actually became an inside joke with us that when she told us a fun fact or event that was going on it was fair to assume that she "read it in the paper" haha. I miss her every day more and more, and some days it hits harder than others that she really is gone, but I know she is up there is heaven eating her cinnamon toast, drinking her coffee at the kitchen table, and reading in the paper how Texas Tech is ranked higher than A&M haha :) I love you grammy, so much. "Together forever, never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."