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In Loving Memory of Sondra C. Steiner Kuszmaul

Sondra C. Steiner Kuszmaul, 73, known as Sandy, completed her earthly journey home to our Lord on January 9, 2016. She was born June 5, 1942, in Camden, NJ. She is preceded in death by her parents, Heinrich Steiner and Adele Brozis Watson, and husband Edward L. Kuszmaul.

She is survived by her loving children, daughters Deborah (Glenda) and Noel (Dave), and son Edward (Michelle). She is also survived by her granddaughter Christine, grandsons Anthony, Theodore, granddaughters Nicole, Grace, Isabella and Ashley. She is also survived by her great-granddaughter Harper.

Sondra was in the care of Our Lady of Lourdes and Foster-Warne Funeral Home, Collingswood, NJ.

Memorial Service: Sondra's request was to be returned to God's Eternal Sea.

The family has requested donations be made in lieu of flowers to Sondra's charities:

St. Jude Childrens Hospital - http://www.stjude.org

Catholic Charities USA - https://catholiccharitiesusa.org/

~ A Prayer for Our Loving Mother ~

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. O God, whose only Begotten Son, by his life Death and Resurrection has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, who has commanded us to honor our mother, have compassion in Thy mercy, on the soul of our mother; forgive her of her sins, and grant that we may see her in the joy of eternal brightness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

This memorial website was created in memory of our beloved mother, wife, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt and friend. We will always remember her. Please read her life story and share any stories, experiences or memories you have of her here on this website.

Our love for Sandy is eternal. She holds a special place in our hearts and lives. We are all broken-hearted and will miss her dearly.

January 15
January 15
Mom,
I still can’t believe you’re gone. I miss everything about you. You’re beautiful smile, your kisses, your hugs, your laughter and your kindness. I loved you yesterday, I love you today, and I’ll love you forever. Until we meet again, please watch over me and our fur babies our boys Tiger, Kitty, Harley (yep the sneezer for food) and now our baby boy Bailey (my little kisser) in Heaven and visit whenever you can.

All my love forever and always,
Debby
May 14, 2023
May 14, 2023
Happy Mother’s Day in Heaven Mom
I watched videos of you today to see your beautiful face and hear your voice. I hope you like the roses I sent to heaven for you to honor you on this special day.
The pain of you gone never really goes away. I love and miss you Mom more than you will ever know!

All my love Forever & Always,
Debby XXXOOO
2023
December 26, 2022
December 26, 2022
Mom,
Christmas was your favorite holiday and I just wanted you to know how much you are loved and missed each and every day. Merry Christmas my Heavenly Angel.

All my love Forever & Always,
Debby XXXOOO
June 5, 2022
June 5, 2022
HAPPY HEAVENLY 80TH BIRTHDAY MOMMY
I miss everything about you. Your hugs and kisses, your voice, your laugh and your beautiful smile. Sending you kisses, hugs, an armful of your favorite roses and of course your favorite Jewish Apple Cake for your birthday today. I’ll never forget having you here 10 years ago on your 70th. We never got to go on that special trip together. You would have loved it! I think about that a lot and it makes me very sad. I would have never thought I would lose you just 3 years later. I wish I would have done things differently and brought you here to live with me.I think you may still be with us today had you been happier and not burdened with always worrying about money. I think stress and depression is what killed you. When you called me those last few times and I couldn’t hardly understand you, I believe that was your cry for help that I should have recognized.I wish I had gotten on a plane immediately and brought you home with me. I’m so sorry Mom. I live with this regret and will do so until I see you again. I love you and miss you more than words can ever convey. With all my love forever and always, Debby ❤️❤️❤️
May 14, 2022
May 14, 2022
Hi Mom,
Just wanted you to know you are always on my mind. I posted this tribute on FB to you on Mother’s Day. I hope you received. Pictures of me & you together on your last visit for your 70th Birthday comes up frequently on my iPad which tells me you must be around or with me❣️ I love so much and miss everything about you. I wish Heaven had a phone so we could catch up.
All my love forever and always.

❤️ Happy Heavenly Mother’s Day Mommy ❤️

Peace doves from Heaven hear me when I pray, please deliver a special parcel to my Mom for me on this special day. My mother's love is eternal, the kind that will ever die, my mother’s love is the tie that binds, our bond will never be broken, her love is branded in our hearts, even when her words aren't spoken.

Mom,
When you open this special parcel delivered on the wings of a dove, you’ll feel the warmth that you are forever missed and forever loved. Inside you’ll find many of your favorite things including a ton of special memories, a million kisses all wrapped up in a million hugs. I sent you an armful bouquet of your favorite roses…I promise as many as I could hold. I’ve even included Honeysuckle that sweet scent to behold, reminding me of you…you of your Mother and your Nana, yes Mom, I remember your fond memories you told. I’ll be forever thankful for the bond of our love and being raised by a mother I considered to be so fun, selfless and loving. I can honestly say, as your daughter, that were the best mother in the world, and I thank God you were mine.

I’ll close my Mother’s Day wish by saying I know you are listening and watching from above, and there’s nothing that I value more than your enduring love. No matter where I am or what I’m doing, your memories will always keep me smiling, because your love is still my guide and although I can’t see you, I know you’re by my side. I hold you close within my heart and there you will remain, to walk with me throughout the rest of my life until we are reunited together again. Forever in my heart with all my love aways.

PS> It’s almost time to get your favorite pool floats out. I watch you on video clips made on my phone.You loved floating, singing crazy songs and cooking out all day long. Come stay awhile, so I can once again see you smile❣️
January 9, 2022
January 9, 2022
Mom,
Six years ago at this very moment God called you to heaven. I miss you every day and wish I had a chance to tell you I love you before you left this earth. Please be there for me when it’s my time. I love you with all my heart and soul. Until we are together again, I love you more…❤️
October 9, 2021
October 9, 2021
Hi Mom!
On my mind and thought I’d send you a note.
I think of you all the time, I talk to you and pray for you. Your pictures keep coming up on my iPad lately …you must be here with me. I love you and miss everything about you. Your kind heart, your smile, laughter and our memories are forever in my heart. All my love always, Debby ❤️
PS. Haven’t won the lottery yet, but life has been good just very different.
The earth has gone through a virus called Covid-19 since Feb 2020. It’s been awful and heartbreaking.

O God, forgive me of my sins. Please grant that I may see my father and my mother in the joy of your eternal brightness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
June 5, 2021
June 5, 2021
Happy Birthday Mom!
I love you and miss you more than you know. I miss your voice, your smile, your kisses, your hugs our talks, the things you taught me…I just miss everything about you!

It’s warm here and you’d be floating around the pool right now. Thank you for being such an amazing and selfless woman. As I’ve grown older myself, I can really appreciate the struggles you endured your entire life and I’m so sorry and sad when I recall the stories you’ve shared with me.

I can still remember the last time I saw you as you waved goodbye to me at the airport. I wish I could have just kept you here with me. If I could have done things differently in life that would have kept you around possibly longer, I would have done it in a heartbeat. I should have, and I’m sorry I didn’t. I do know you are happy now and definitely in Heaven smiling down on me. All my love on this day and always…until we meet again, Your Loving Daughter, Debby ❤️❤️❤️
May 9, 2021
May 9, 2021
Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to you my angel mother.
I love you and miss you more than you know. Until we meet again…you are with me always in my heart, and with every breath I take.
All my love always, Debby ❤️
June 6, 2020
June 6, 2020
Mom -
Happy 78th Birthday! Glenda and I talk about you all the time and I talk or think of you always.

You were such a loving, selfless, kind and gentle soul and the BEST Mom anyone could ask for. I’m so proud you were mine!

I miss everything about you! Your sincere love, hugs and kisses. Your beauty, your funny stories, your smiles, always in fashion - your coordinated outfits! Never forget your first trip to Memphis! You practically brought your entire closet for the week and wore only a few pieces. That was such a nice visit!

That was your first time here when we did the Mother/Daughter world wind week of fun. Me & Glenda took you and her Momma to so many places in and around Memphis and Mississippi.

The first surprise was my hairdresser coming to our house. I remember you walking out to the living room and Misty standing there. She says are you Sandy? You say yes and you say what’s going on? Misty says well Sandy before you can begin your awesome week here you gotta be a blonde!
That was the beginning of an every day surprise with evening hints we would hand you!

We laugh about when we had y’all in the Beale Street Blues Resturant with all the guitars hanging from the ceiling and we told y’all you to pick one because y’all are gonna need to get up on stage to sing and play! They are in fact extremely valuable and famous and non touchable. You were all in because you love adventures!

We kept on and you picked your guitar out. Glenda’s Momma said “I’m not doing it” agenda says now Momma you have to! She firmly looks at Glenda and says “no and I mean it!”. Then Momma says to you “now Sandy I’m telling you, you don’t have to do that” She was so serious and you’re like “oh I’m going to do it! I picked my guitar out”. It cracks us up to this day!!

That place was our decoy to wait for the cool Carriage ride surprise coming to pick us all up! So much fun that entire week!

So many wonderful memories from PA,AC, NJ, Cherry Hill Mall w/Gang-Gang, The German Club, Memphis and countless other outings! Thank you so much Mom for making me the woman I am today!

All my love and kisses forever and until we are together again! Debby
April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020
Hi Mom,
How are you? I miss you so much but I think you already know that. I pray to and for you every night and hope you can hear me. I ask you for guidance and strength when I’m feeling down.
Hey Mom...do you remember how we talked about whenever the day came you had to leave me you’d leave me a sign? You said you wanted to swing the swing on the back patio. I told you that sign was already taken by my Gram. You said oh ok then, how about pennies? I said pennies? You said “yeah I leave them around”. Well since you’ve been gone you must be with me a lot when you’re not busy, cause I find them everywhere. I’m not even looking but somehow they find me. When I find them I talk to you out loud. People probably think “we’ll there’s a nut case” LOL!

I watched videos I took of you on your last visit here for your 70th Birthday. What a GREAT visit we had together! You were sooo happy & stress free!!!

On Sept. 3rd 2013 pool video you said “Well today I’m on my 75th trip to Cuba fighting off sharks..punching them in the nose, fighting off sting rays and jellyfish”. Then you show off your cherished cocoon netted hammock raft bragging that you’re in the deep end as you rock yourself back & forth & I’m holding my breath as I’m filming thinking to myself, oh god please don’t flip over! I have to find the older videos when you’d be totally covered up with wet towels just so youcould stay in the pool floating for hours. That was hilarious!!
Hopefully you are visiting the rest of our family, because we all loved you more than you will ever know. Well Mom, you always thought when you passed away it would bring your kids closer...its not like anything you would have wanted...actually the exact opposite. I’m sorry Mom...I tried.

I love you and I know just like you’d say to all of us...na I love you more! Sending you lots of hugs and kisses!
All my Love Forever & Always,
Debby
September 24, 2018
September 24, 2018
In a midtown hotel today following a convention of the National Psychiatric Society a number of the leading psychiatrists in the United States were trapped in an elevator for over 45 minuets panic broke out and all of the Drs. were treated for hysteria. I had to put that out there that was the funniest day of my life and all you kept saying was his head was too large for his body it always kept falling over to the one side oh my god mom I don’t think we ever laughed so hard I miss you so much and our crazy adventures during the day that no one would ever believe right! I Love you I know you love me more I love you most! I wanna say it but I’ll wait to see you again then I will cause we gotta be fair.
May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018
Hi Mom,
I was just thinking about you. You know that you are my eternal strength, and I can feel you around me.
Last Monday, 5/14, I believe you came to visit me to tell me everything was going to be ok when I found out that God was now getting ready to call my Dad. The smell of Honeysuckle surrounded me as I sat a the kitchen table just feeling lost and overwhelmed. Glenda also found 2 stacked pennies on the workbench in the garage. Where do you get all these pennies I find?
Both of my parents now are now Beautiful Angels in Heaven - God’s magnificent and most Holy house. Please take care of Dad for me Mom, he’s been in pain from cancer for a very long time.
I love you and will forever miss you. Your Birthday is coming up soon on 6/5. How about a homemade Jewish Apple Cake...yes I know...with extra apples and cinnamon & sugar.
June 5, 2017
June 5, 2017
Happy 75th Birthday in Heaven Mom!

Gosh Mom, I miss you so darn much and my life will never been the same without you in it. Now that you are gone, I realize the true depth of the pain you felt in your heart for all those years when you lost your own Morher (Gang-Gang) at such a young age. I sometimes see you, and I know it's you Mom sending me a sign you are here around me. Little things make smile and cry when I think of you. I wonder what Heaven is like and pray that God keeps you safe. I pray you are finally happy, worry free, with family and all your fur babies. I hope you are smiling like an Angel every day.

I keep you close with me Mom and take you everywhere I go every single day in my heart. I hope you somehow know just how much you were loved and how much you meant to me. I hope you know what a great Mom and Grandmother you were.

Until we see each other again, please Mom, watch over me.

All My Love Always & Forever,

Your Loving Daughter
Debby
xxxxooo
April 23, 2017
April 23, 2017
Hi Mom, I just wanted you to know I was thinking about you all day today. I see you all around me. The smell of honeysuckle reminds me of you. I speak to you every night, and hope you can hear me. I miss you terribly. I know you are with me helping me through the journey of life. Please pray for me Mom. I need your strength and guidance now more than ever to help me through. I miss you!

All my love forever & always,
Your Loving Daughter
June 8, 2016
June 8, 2016
Happy 74th Birthday in Heaven Mom.
God I miss you and love you more than you will ever know and I think of you everyday. My heart is just broken to pieces. I still can't believe you are gone, and I still don't understand why or what happened. Please watch over me, teach me and give me the strength to live without you. I love you Mom. All my love Forever & Always, Debby
February 16, 2016
February 16, 2016
Mom,
I've thought about you everyday since you went away...

If tears could build a stairwell and memories were a lane,
I would walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say good-bye...
You were gone before I knew...only God knows the reason why.
My heart still aches in sadness and many tears still flow,
What it means to lose you, no one will ever know.

I love you and miss you terribly!
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
I did not know your mom personally, Debby, but you sure do look like her. You have her sweet smile and her never ending dedication and self sacrificing personality. My mom went home to heaven in 1999, and nothing can ever take the place of one's mother. Just know that you and I will see them again someday. Peace be with you in the coming days.
You and Glenda will continue to be in our prayers.
January 19, 2016
January 19, 2016
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: "There she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says:

"There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout

"Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

I will miss you Sandy and all the fun and laughter we had here at Penn. May you rest in peace!
January 16, 2016
January 16, 2016
To My Mom My Angel,

Once upon a time an Angel held my hand.
She wiped away my tears to help me understand.

Our time on earth is brief, there's lessons to be learned,
each precious day God gives us, another page is turned.

Every chapter full of memories, times of joy and tears,
Triumphs and defeats, through every passing year.

She loved me unconditionally, and was always by my side,
when no one else would listen, in her I could confide.

With gentle words of wisdom, she led me on my way,
and down the paths of righteousness if ever I did stray.

She saw the light in everyone and gave with no regrets,
always from her heart and I will never ever forget.

Angels come in many forms, for me it is my Mother,
with so much love I know, there'll never be another.

Every day I turn the page in my heart will ever remain,
everything she taught me as I stroll down memory lane.

Thank you God for giving me the most precious of all your treasures,
and Lord I will promise to keep her here with me, in my heart forever.

I pray that I became everything she hoped I would,
and that's she smiling down from heaven knowing she did good.

As I write this here today there's no ending to her story,
another chapter has begun full of God's grace and all his glory.

God's called her to his heavenly home, a part of his great plan,
Although it may be hard for me, I know I must understand.

Faith is what we all must have, God we cannot see,
He has promised Heaven to all of us if only we believe.

I will Love you Mom with All My Heart & Soul,
Forever and Always until we meet again...in Heaven.
Debby xxxooo
January 16, 2016
January 16, 2016
Your mom and mine both had the same Saint watching over them, St Jude. I will add your mom's name to my mom's in my donations from now on. I will light a candle for her and a flower, on her birthday, as I do with my mom, too. My prayers to you and all the family. Take care.
January 16, 2016
January 16, 2016
Mom,
I didn't get to say good bye, hug you, kiss you, see your sweet face or say I love you one last time before God called you home. Thank you Mom for all you ever did for me, raising me with God in my heart, teaching me right from wrong, kindness and compassion and loving me unconditionally. Thank you Mom for being the mother that you were and being a part of everything in my life because without you, I wouldn't be the woman I am today. I hope I made you proud. I want to also thank you for all you have done and given up for your family your entire life...sleep, money, your own desires, and most of all your own dreams…

Much of yourself was left on the shelf and never did come into being because of your self-sacrifice. I want you to know Mom, you were the most amazing, loving and selfless person I have ever known. You have weathered your storms well and now although my heart is broken, you are my angel in Heaven. Those who knew and loved you benefited from the gift of who you are...the most precious gift from God. Mom I am so thankful that you were my Mother, I wouldn't want no other. I will never understand or know what happened to you the day you went away, but believe me when I tell you Mom, you left this world better than you found it, all because of you. May every seed of love that you planted in my life be returned to you in there in Heaven...until we meet again...and when I get there Mom, we'll go to the beach together again. While I am here on earth, waiting to see you again, please watch over me.

I will love you and miss you for eternity,
Debby xxxxoooo

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January 15
January 15
Mom,
I still can’t believe you’re gone. I miss everything about you. You’re beautiful smile, your kisses, your hugs, your laughter and your kindness. I loved you yesterday, I love you today, and I’ll love you forever. Until we meet again, please watch over me and our fur babies our boys Tiger, Kitty, Harley (yep the sneezer for food) and now our baby boy Bailey (my little kisser) in Heaven and visit whenever you can.

All my love forever and always,
Debby
May 14, 2023
May 14, 2023
Happy Mother’s Day in Heaven Mom
I watched videos of you today to see your beautiful face and hear your voice. I hope you like the roses I sent to heaven for you to honor you on this special day.
The pain of you gone never really goes away. I love and miss you Mom more than you will ever know!

All my love Forever & Always,
Debby XXXOOO
2023
December 26, 2022
December 26, 2022
Mom,
Christmas was your favorite holiday and I just wanted you to know how much you are loved and missed each and every day. Merry Christmas my Heavenly Angel.

All my love Forever & Always,
Debby XXXOOO
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