This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Willie Edwards who was born on October 23, 1961 and passed away on November 6, 2010. We will remember him forever. Willie's wishes were to donate his organs. All his organs were strong and healthy and went to people in need, a lasting legacy, a gift of life.
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Leave a tributeThe kids bought a house about a month ago and Ross is almost 8 months old. I have it in my mind to see them every three months and it's been working out pretty well. I am in full Grandma/Auntie mode. Ashley and Karl had a little boy too, Harvey, and he is going to be a year old in a few weeks. I just babysat him a couple weeks ago in Seattle for the weekend then I got to come out to Indiana and stay for a few weeks and work remotely, so I have been getting lots of baby love!!! I cant express enough how happy I am at this time in my life. My dad tells me its the "Golden Years".
I heard the lyrics of a song that touched on the loss of a loved one- we dont ever get over it, we just have to get thru it. We're still getting thru it, tears still flow, our hearts still ache. We miss you!
Allissa and I were together a couple weekends ago for a girls weekend and laughed hard talking about you and thinking of the good old days and the fun and laughs we had. This morning I woke up and read Allissa's journal and it made me cry. I got to experience and see how much you two loved each other and her love is still strong. It was a good cry for me....just wish Allissa was here for a hug! The world is crazy my friend! You're probably in a way better place than we are...lol. See you on the other side. I know you're busy playing angel now. Happy 60th Birthday Willie Man!
I can't believe you are both gone...but I know you are together up to no good. Take care of each other up there.
Gretchen
Excerpt From: Douglas Carlton Abrams. “The Book of Joy.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-book-of-joy/id1093343088?mt=11
Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.
It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
You have sung to me in my aloneness,
and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over,
and it is no longer dawn.
The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day
and we must part.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once again,
we will speak again together and you will sing to me a deeper song.
And if our hands should meet in another dream
we will build another tower in the sky.
The Buckster is living with Fred here in Boise and working at Construction. He has worked with this company for 2 years and doing well! He just bought an old jeep cherokee to get around. Thanks god he is off that motorcycle and not trying to ride his bike 10 miles across town anymore.
We lost mom a few months ago, so I hope you two are up there living it up! I miss you always and i know i say it everytime but I see you in both of these boys! I LOVE THAT! You would be a proud poppa!
Your birthday, Vince's Birthday and Ian's birthday! You were always getting ready to go fishing this time of the year. When I am in Ballard and at Fisherman's terminal. Anytime I see a red miata, or the way William is always riding his bike..... and crashing! LOL Theresa was just here visiting and all those times we shared with our families. Baby Jaynie and Olive. All the nick names you gave everyone. I still have your name in my contact list on my phone. I see your face, your mannerisms and your personality when I look at our boys. That all makes me happy and sad! I will never forget! XOXOXO
Memories of you come our way.
Though absent, you are always near
Still missed, loved and always dear.
Always thinking of you , missing you and wishing you were here.
Thomas Fuller
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Nothing you love is lost
By / From Jerry Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Poem By Vincent
Lost in the Woods, Lost in Life.
It is winter, the sun is in hiding, like myself.
Looking for a man, a woman, a road,
something that will lead to safety, or satisfaction.
Missing my baby, my wife, my dog that i never had.
Pleading for water, a cigar, a blanket or a doctor
that will bring me happiness.
Alienated, never to be found.
Profoundly Written by Vincent Edwards
2009
Fred & Ethel
Fred and Ethel was Willie favorite thing for Willie to call us.not mom or pops we had willie in our family for at least 20 years.I remember the day he married my sweetchild he played 18 holes the moring of the wedding he then came to the hotel to get ready we found him in the bar throwing down gin and tonics. I sent him up stairs. to dress. he could not figure out how to button the shirt to his tux so he went out to the hallway and found a woman to help him. It was amazing that he could stand up to marry my daughter. That was just the start Willie was so good to me and always acted like he had miss me so much when he came home from fishing. I think it was for my chicken and noodles or fried chicken. He was so good to us he came to Sacrameto to drive the big truck back to Seattle. He always came when I called for help. I have so many stories I could write all nite. Fred and I loved Willie Man so much .I can say I have not lit any candles but I cried for 3 days you have read the other stories take those times 100 and that was the fun we had . He had a horrible demon in his head that just took over and as much as we tried we could not seem to help.My parnets died a few years back and if there is heaven i can promise you my mother is waiting at the gate for him.Allof our family will miss him so much . He was a good father a great soninlaw He love his boys so much.He went to the games taught the boys all about sports and sportmanship. He has put a hole in my heart that will never go away but we do have Vinnie and Buck to reminds us that he will never forgotten.I do wish my daughter the strenght to love again and never forget her first love.I miss you Willie we love you and wish you could still be with us. I have to sign off as here come the tears again. Good nite Willie love Mom and Pops.