Sharron Ackles passed away peacefully on August 24 with Joe and her family at her side. Sharron had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer over a year ago and had fought hard to overcome it. Very few people even knew she was ill. She fought this battle with the same grace and determination that she lived life. This memorial website has been set up to honor Sharron and will serve as a memory and reminder to us all of a woman who touched us all. Please feel free to add pictures, videos, stories, music & letters to Joe and his family.
Memorial Service
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Keauhou Canoe Club at Keauhou Bay
9:00 AM
Following the service, there will be an opportunity to share stories & memories, followed by a scattering of loose flowers in Keauhou Bay and a pot-luck lunch.
We hope you will come and help us celebrate Sharron's life with her family and friends.
Joe's home address is: 75-280 W. Kawena Place
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
In lieu of flowers donations in Sharron's memory can be made through:
https://netcommunity.pancan.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=796
for furthering research in finding the cause and a cure for pancreatic cancer.
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RIP Sharron
My family had a good day remembering you with laughter and love. So many changes and events have taken place in the past 6 years that I know would have been all the richer if we could have shared them with you. You were our bright light. The family will always have an emptiness in our hearts until we get to be with you again. I know where you are. I know I will get to feel your hugs and see your cheerful smile and your beautiful brown eyes looking lovingly at me again. I am thankful that I still feel your presence so strongly. I miss you every day Mom.
Will forever be missing. And a piece of me will never heal until we meet again. Dad misses you dearly. I always try to make him laugh and keep a smile on his face. We bring you up a lot in life and at our Starbucks meet ups in the morning. Dad actually just found a sweater wrapped up and labeled in storage from around 1958 that he got you. He had no idea you kept it all these years. That really made our day. We love you so so much. Lily always brings you up and talks to you in prayer. She still has the first blanket you bought her when she was born. Happy Birthday Mom. I love you so much. You are missed by so many ppl. The light you brang into every room or event will never be forgotten. Xoxo
I really enjoy reading the notes from her friends on this site. I know she loved each of you deeply and would be so delighted that you loved her so much! I thank you for remembering her!
RIP Sharron.
Janis Fitzsimmons
Love is a fickle thing. It manifests in unlimited forms of thought, verbal expression, body language and touch. It is expressed differently at various stages of life. As a teenager we mistook lust for love. During midlife when raising a family, love was the glue that kept the family together and moving forward. When empty nesters, it was the knowledge of joint accomplishment. As seniors it is an invisible magnetism of mutual respect.
Unfortunately, very few couples are lucky enough to travel through life together experiencing each form of love. Those of us who have are truly blessed. We felt the joy and admiration of watching our mate achieve great things during our lifetime together. We experienced overwhelming desire to support even the smallest goal our mate desired to pursue. We received unwavering support on the part of our mate to ease our pain of failing a personal objective. We received overwhelming concern and unending care each time we fell ill. Love is not a word or an expression, it is a burning sense of admiration and respect for the extreme level of giving you received from your mate. It is rarely visible, cannot be measured and is impossible to fake.
Sharron’s memory is something I carry locked in my heart. It will not fade over time, nor will it be replaced.
I sincerely hope that the majority of you who visit Sharron’s memorial web site have experienced the level of love from one person that I have.
I would like to thank all of you who have posted warm thoughts on Sharron’s “Forevermissed” web site over the years. Although I have refrained from posting on the site until now, I do visit it frequently. It warms my heart immensely knowing that several of you have posted each year, either on her birthday or the anniversary of her passing. I’m certain she was deeply touched to have known you directly and that you continue to be her friend in memory.
A lot of Aloha left this Island when you passed Sharon.
Love & miss you and your words of kindness.
Dane
Sending my love to Joe and your family as well.
As busy as she was she always had time and patience to answer any questions. As Ironman approaches it brings back many great memories,
Sharron is on the top of the list of great memories.
Always in our thoughts.
I lost my sweet sister-in-law to this horrible disease.
I fight back by working at our local Relay For Life each year in
Kona.
Joe, blessings to you and your family
Cheryl,
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Please be patient.
The Sharron I remember
The coolest thing about our memories is that we get to choose what we keep in the front of our minds. I chose two to remember Sharron by.
The first year we worked together, 1992, is one of my favorite years. During race week she called me and asked if I was busy (of course!) but not too busy to give her whatever time she needed. She told me to come down to the hotel entrance and she'd pick me up. She sounded very serious, almost grim. I got in the car and she drove away from the hotel. She was chatting about inconsequentials. I finally asked where we were going and she said, "Well, we are much too recoginizable so we are going to get diguises." We spent the next half hour in Longs going through their Halloween stock. We came away with false mustaches. We wore them all day and many of the volunteers joined in the fun and would come up and ask us if we'd seen Robin or Sharron!
a few months later, we were coming back from lunch, riding in the back of a convertible. We were laughing and saying it was like being in the parade. I said yes, only we'd be sitting up on the back of the seats. She looked at me and said, "I will if you will." We spent the rest of the trip back to the office waving at whoever we passed.
Sharron loved to laugh and it was always good to laugh with her. She will always make me smile.
No shame in front!
I had been one of Sharron's coordinators for a few years when one day I was in her office talking about business and shared with her my fustration of my added weight gain. With a gleam and sparkle in her eye and a smile that went on for miles she said "have you tried spinning at The Club?". Needless to say it took her very little time to convince me to come try and I thought, why not.....I hang out in the back and no one will even really notice me. She comforted me and said to just show up and she would have everything ready to go. I reminded her, now don't forget, put me in the back. YA, RIGHT!! Sharron had me set up in the first row, dead center. I was like noooooooooo Sharron! The people behind me will lose their eye site if you put me if front, enrolment will drop, this is not good.
Even with my heart racing with the fear of "being in the front row", within seconds Sharron had calmed me and I was actually at ease getting on the bike. My butt wasn't so happy with me for the next month but if it wasn't for Sharron I would have not have joined the Club for which I am still a member today. Sharron also got me into body-pump for which I knew not to waste my breath telling her I wanted to start in the back. Sharron always had the way to calm and ease people when most stressed or get us over that hump and make us comfortable out of our comfort zone. You will be forever missed Sharron but I wil never, ever forget your love, comfort, compassion and hugs!!
Rest in peace and watch over us till we meet in the Heavenly spin class, and no worries, I will hang in front with you!
A Song for Aunty Sharron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0VZXPyHAk
This is one of Kya's original songs that we wanted to share in hopes that it brings uncle Joe and family comfort. Auntie Sharron is found in His love!