Seems like yesterday you were here with us Grandma. Miss you. Wish you could be here with us all now. You’d enjoy all the great grandchildren so much. Know you are in your own way. You certainly live on in my heart & soul beyond time & space.

Miss you Mom. Love you always and think of you every day.

Miss you mom. I wish you could be with us to watch the two blue jays that come to our yard every morning as we sit in the hot tub. I know that you would love seeing your great grandchildren and their unique and spicy personalities.
Love you always

Love You Grandma!

Here we are in 2023. You are ever present.
Much Love
Tracy

Wish you could be here to see all the hummingbirds we have this year ❤️ you would have loved watching them.
Miss you always. ❤️

Think of you all the time Grandma!
You would have really enjoyed seeing the great grandchildren playing together over the holidays & been proud of us for all gathering together for a trip to the children’s museum with kids & a big Italian style family dinner.
So much gratitude for the value of family you imparted to us all! It lives on.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Happy Birthday Grandma!
100 years.
I'm so grateful to have so many fond memories of you and my childhood summers at Music Lane. And now, 10 years after your passing into another dimension, it seems you are just as present for me as you were when you had a body! Who would have thought? That makes me happy.

I'm starting to notice and appreciate the "small" things & "mundane" moments in life. Reflecting back on my memories of you, the pleasure you took in making salad dressing, mincing the garlic just right, then intentionally mixing  it around in the salt with no haste.

The pleasure you took in drinking your tea and puzzling a cross-word.
The relaxation and steadiness you just were in both the small and big moments of life. I like remembering that you enjoyed and exhibited joy and wonder & interest in so many different situations. These memories still bring me great comfort & happiness to this day, as an almost 40 year old.

I notice it takes choice and perseverance to choose to see more moments in their splendor, to choose to relax and drink a cup of tea, to choose to stir my garlic a little slower.

Love you Grandma

Happy Birthday Mom❤️❤️
I’m still learning from you every day when I remember things you said & did. You’re always with me in my heart ❤️

My Dear VanDeusens,
Once again we visit the memory and love of a great matriarch. I am quite sure Sue would be so proud of you all as mothers, sisters and friends. Dare I say wives? Yes. I know how much Van meant to Sue and to honor that through love and understanding speaks loudly to that commitment. I salute you, Ladies.

I miss you mom. Hard to believe it's been 7 years. I also have treasures from our childhood home on Music Lane that remind me of you every day. The blue boat painting from your bathroom hang in the hallway right outside my bathroom. When I look at the glass flower paperweight from your living room I am reminded of the many hours I spent gazing at it as a little girl. Thank you mom for surrounding us with beautiful things and giving me an appreciation of beauty.

Grandma, so Grateful for you! We have many little treasures of yours from the house on Music Lane scattered throughout our house. They remind me of you daily and I get to tell the girls about you, the house & our family in the US. Love You

I think fondly of you Mom every time I do something for a family member that they have trouble taking care of by themselves for whatever reason.

Happy Thanksgiving to Family & Friends Near & Far!
Have so many wonderful memories of Thanksgivings with Grandma Sue, family & friends. Makes me miss you all & grandma in a good way :-) so many happy memories.
We will make her cornbread stuffing & coleslaw for our celebration here in Sweden on Saturday.
Added som pictures of the girls & our beautiful countryside surroundings to the photo album here too that Grandma would have loved! She’d just adore the great Grandchildren. All 6 of them!!!
So grateful for Grandma Sue! She truly cherished holiday spent with family & dear friends.
Cheers & Happy Thanksgiving to you All!

Grandma is so often in my thoughts & always in my heart. She would love this place in Sweden we call home, the people, the culture, activities, art, music & the food, gardens, animals & nature. I’m reminded daily of her value for aesthetics, that value lives on in me & I hope to pass it onto my children. The girls are enjoying Isadora Duncan dance classes & Lea has just started piano lessons. We are happy that our local consent hall is open again and will have two well know pianist kicking things off. Our neighbors & the Anthroposophical society reminds me of Grandma & Grandpas Unitarian friends & their values. I feel so lucky to have so much precious time with this amazing woman. I sure do miss hugging her & her smell! And glad to see her living on & through so many of us. Happy Birthday Grandma & Roo (Rachael)! Love You

Grandma! What a honor it is too have the same birthday as you. I enjoyed reading my and Ellie’s tributes to you and will follow the same flow. We will be going to Halloween spooktacular at the Colorado Symphony with the boys. Makes me remember the times we went together. We are enjoying this house and being so close to mom and dad- starting to think of finally remodeling the kitchen. Work has been good and I know you would be proud of me and been so curious about all the stories. We are going to be starting Dex in karate class and Nigel and I may also do a few classes. Looking for swim lessons for Theo now that things have opened up since CoVID. Many things trigger our time together and the values you have live on through me. I love you Grandma and Happy Birthday!!

I'm reflecting on Mom's birthday how much we miss her and how much of any wisdom I've acquired is because of her. I also wish she could be here to see that I've finally restored & reupholstered the Eames couch that she always wanted to be done. Love her always.
Sarah

Sue was a resilient woman. She had a certain toughness, a rightness of purpose. This quality has been passed on. It has been my good fortune to know and love her and her family.

Sue's legacy is visible daily in the families and friends she loved and inspired.
You can't ask for more.

Today is the 6th anniversary of my mom's passing. I still feel her presence so strongly. Today I am celebrating her by remembering six things about her.
1. She was a voracious reader. Her coffee table was always piled with books and I never left her house without a book she had given me.
2. She loved animals, domestic and wild. We always had dogs and cats and fed wild birds and squirrels.
3. She was curious and loved learning new things, I often wish that she had learned how to use Google before she died.
4. She loved people of all ages, personalities and persuasions. She could make a friend in the grocery aisle, the library or the swimming pool.
5. She loved family and the mystery of genetics and how traits passed down through generations.
6. She loved us and taught us how to love. That love stays with me and will never die

I woke up yesterday with a sudden desire to cook fish chowder and cornbread for dinner. It was always one of the standbys in Mom's repertoire of health family meals. Her love of sitting down every night and eating together as a family has been handed down to all her children and continues with her grandchildren.
We Love You Mom

Birthday buddy! Can’t believe you would be 98 today! Think of you often and all of the wisdom you offered. Some of it you intuitively knew and often will read articles that back it up with evidence.
Love you! ❤️❤️❤️

As I help take care of Dexter and Theo, I remember Mom's endless patience with small children and her fascination with how they saw and navigated the world with their developing brains.

Just missing you! Love you!

Grandma was passionately curious. It was her best and at times the most embarrassing characteristic. Being curious without judgement is a skill I continue to build. I miss you Grandma. Love love love

Been thinking about Grandma Sue especially a lot this past week.
Like the owl story mom! I didn’t know that.
Also miss Grandma more & more as the years go by, but sometimes get little reminders & tickles that she somehow sees us all & is cheering us on! Felt her presence in my studio just the other day.

I think of mom almost every day and as Isaid on my Facebook page today, I feel her presence and have imaginary conversations with her frequently. I know she would be so proud of her grandchildren and delighted with her 6 great grandchildren. I see her in myself with my enjoyment of our little dogs and my deep love for my sweet grandchildren Reed and Noemi. Sending hugs to all of us who love her today.

My brother Bob passed away on this date last year. Part of life is missing the people we love.
It is my good fortune to have had such wonderful people to love.
Right now I miss all of you.

I saw an Owl the other morning while I was walking the dog and was reminded of Mom's love of bird watching and the small owl we saw sitting on the fence by her house right after she passed away. The longer I live the more I mess her.

Acknowledging Grandma Sue as truly one of my lives greatest teachers. So curious, always questioning and pondering. I love this site & I am glad we all get to share and remember Grandma here together & celebrate her, honor her & reflect our love. She is such an integral part of my life and Being. I’m so grateful for her as a role model and to all of you wonderful women: Mom, Aunt Eleanor, Rachael, Mimi, Sami, Tracy, Vi, Ruth, all living expressions of her legacy! And now her great grand children... and all the guys too

Thinking of mom often these days. I have had a couple of strange dreams in which she still is alive and living at the Music Lane house and we are all feeling worried that we are not able to be over there helping her more. I also feel very grateful for mom as a parenting role model with little kids as I am now enjoying being a grandparent and watching Mimi as a mom. She would love all of her great grandchildren. So hard to imagine that it has been 4 years! Seems like yesterday that she was here with us. I know I will always miss her.

As I'm spending time with my grandchildren there's not a single day that goes by where I don't remember some words of wisdom from Mom about small children. I miss her every day and often wish we'd had just a little more time for me to grow up.

With Sarah and Rachel, my son, Lathem and my self, I always remember Sue as one of my special Virgos. I was fortunate to share a few birthdays with Sue and fun was had by all. She is thought of often with great fondness.

Dearest Grandma,
Yes, you are definitely alive &!well in my heart! Mom is right, the holidays remind us of you! Julekaga baking with the girls. Haven’t perfected it yet, but remember your lessons & will keep trying till I get it perfect like yours! Been painting more recently! Enjoying the children & their friends. We will be in Colorado soon & go to Steamboat. Realizing now we need to make sure to connect with Aunt El & family! Lea & Arias Dancing is such a treat to watch, you would very much enjoy them. I know you do from above! Thank you Grandma! My heart sings & expands to you! Love you & perceiving you close! Ellie

I am so glad that we made this site to be reminded of this day each year. Although I think of mom almost every day, especially when we are together with our little ones. It was so fun o watch Dexter and Reed play and little Noemi is darling and has Grandma hazels sparkly brown eyes. Mom would enjoy her great grandchildren so much if she were here. I am hoping that we can all be together when Ellie and family are here in February. Let's find a day to do that. We can't wait to see Leah and Aria. We would love to see you in Fort Collins or we can come to Denver.
Love and miss you always mom

Every holiday season we make and discuss family dishes that Mom cooked and served over the years. There are some lively discussions of the recipes for cornbread, stuffing, cabbage slaw etc. etc. Due to the natural evolution of those recipes, we all have slightly different memories of things like how many eggs you put in the cornbread, but we all have fond recollections of the warmth and energy of those family meals you prepared and taught us to appreciate. Love you and miss you always.

As I look over all Sue's notes I am surprised that it was on this date that I wrote . I am now 96 and have thought of Sue and Van so many times. Now I have a stack of books on my table almost as high as her stack. Our youngest, Shaw, was named Shaw Bradley Wagener for guess who??? Shaw was born July 1, 1959. I wonder where Bradley Van Deusen might be. Shaw lives close to me but travels all over the world in his work. Hoby has been gone many years and I depend a lot on Shaw. Love to all Sue's family, Violet Wagener

Every day I think of things I would like to tell you and I often feel like you are with me. I miss you always Mom.

Happy Birthday Aunt Sue. Just a few days ago I was talking with Sarah about a family question I was sure you would know the answer to. I told her that at least once a month I ask you a question but you have yet to answer. I miss you and love you always.

Grandma, my birthday buddy! I sure do miss you and think of you often. Your spirt lives on and feel it with me often.
Love you lots and Happy Birthday!
Dinner celebration tonight :-)

Miss you & love you always Mom - wish we could have do-overs.

Reading these loving messages over the years creates evidence of a life well lived. Still missing Sue but feel blessed to have her family in my life.
Love to all my Virgos and to those who loved the Virgoiest of them all.

To-morrow, September 6th 2018, would have been my 50th wedding anniversary with Dana, my dear husband who passed away on March 1st this year. We were married in the Van Deusen garden in Grand Junction on September 6th 1968... so long ago and it seems so close! Sue (mainly) and Van (who gave me away) organized our intimate wedding with a few family and friends. Sarah was my witness. We always joked that my wedding to Dana was Sue's crowning achievement in her match-making career. I miss her very much and have been thankful all my life to have known her and her wonderful family.

Grandma, you are woven into the tapestry of my life. I’m constantly reminded of you in big and small ways when I remember to notice.
Just the other day I bought a book about the Artist Arne Klingborg (1915-2007), who developed the Kulturhuset here & was a visionary for art, theater, dance & music education in the nearby schools. As I was reading the book I noticed it was written by his daughter, Aurora- who just so happens to be Lea’s Dance & theater teacher, she is probably in her mid 70’s & is an incredibly inspiring human being. It probably would have taken me months to put that together on my own, but fortunately I asked the woman at the book store about a particular painting that was on the post card & that “Grandma Sue” question lead to me buying the book & realizing that Lea’s teacher is his daughter.
Lately I’ve been tucking my napkin into my collar at mealtimes & telling Lea to do the same, coining it “Grandma Sue style”! I wish you could come shadow me & the girls in our daily lives. We listen to music I remember you guys playing at the house on Music Lane. We made julekage & gave it to our neighbors. We write letters to Dex & Mom- want to do that more often. We spend lots of time with the kids & had an fun Family lt weekend in Estes that would have made you proud if all of us, we all got along LOL!
We all miss you every day but see the under weaving of the tapestry. You’re like the long- white vertical threads that the horisantal threads lat uppnå.
I feel you in my body, I feel you in my soul. You have given us a strong foundation for our lives to unfold magically if we are willing to take the time to ponder, question.. I’m in awe of my life’s unfolding & grateful for our undying connection. You are a beautiful human being that in your imperfections showed us the art of living a simple and joyful life. Love you

Lately I've been thinking of Mom insisting on making not only green salad to go with dinner every night but also fruit salad for desert. It was her life-long mission to see to it that we all ate well and got our allotted servings of fruit & vegetables every day. I hope she knows how many fond memories I have of her and Dad.

So busy it took me a few days to leave this note. Miss you mom, every day, especially with all of the changes happening in our lives that I wish I could tell you about. Wish you could see Sami and how she is growing into her adult identity.
Love you
Eleanor

My Grammy! I sure miss you and think of you often! You are such a smart lady and often hear some of the wise things you said and would say. I wish I would have done some things differently with our relationship but think I have learned a lot from this. I now know what feels right and what I will do the next time when similar situations/feelings presents themselves in my life. Happy birthday my birthday buddy! I sure love you!

Happy Birthday Grandma!
Sure do miss you. Sending LOTs of Love & kisses

Happy Birthday Mom! We love you and miss you always.