My Wife

Just like to take a few moments to honor my wife. As many of you know, she had many medical issues in her life. She had pheriferal vascular disease in 1991 and had four bypasses from that. She had a heart attack in 1996 and in 1998 and recovered from those. She had a paralyzing stroke in 2009 and my son and I started our caregiving experiences then. She had internal bleeding when her blood thinner tanked on her plus a major infection that put her in the ICU at Atrium for a month. She recovered from that as well. She had a genetic defect in her blood resulting in a poor immune system and finally, she had another infection on March 22, 2018 that put her in the Coronary ICU at Atrium. Her heart was attacked and it damaged the heart valves. She was transferred to Sycamore Hospital's Life Care unit in Miamisburg on April 18th for longer term care. She passed away there Thursday at 1:03 AM. On Sunday, May 6th, we celebrated our 46th anniversary. My son and I were called to the hospital but didn't make it in time as she passed just minutes before we were able to arrive. She looked so peaceful when we said our goodbyes. We are currently making plans with Brietenbach Funeral home for her cremation and will have a service for her at St. Pauls Church in downtown Middletown in the upcoming weeks.

My wife loved to do crafts in the 70's and 80's. She handsewed quilts, did needlepoint, crocheting and other crafts as well. She loved the group Chicago and 60's music from the Beatles, Searchers and others. She loved cats and had her favorites along the way. She like her coffee and Marlboros until 2009 when she stopped cold turkey. She was a pro on the computer until her stroke took all those skills away in 2009. She was a very social person and made friends easily. She came from a poor family and grew up in northern Indiana in the Westville, LaPorte, Michigan City area with two older brothers and one older sister. I met her in 1971 at Rickenbacher AFB in Columbus in the barracks parking lot for the first time just a year before I got out of the service.

She worked in Columbus in the 70's at Motorists Insurance, then in the 80's, at Ohio Oil and Gas Association in Newark Ohio. She finished up at P&G at Sharon Woods Tech Center in 1999 and, because of her medical issues, took a medical retirement from P&G.

She was a wonderful person and always put others ahead of herself. I saw her do many nice things for people during my 46 years with her.

Thank you for letting me get some of this grief out for now. It is somewhat of a relief to talk about her and helps relief pressure of her loss.

God Bless all of you for your understanding. My son and I are still hurting plenty right now. We are busy getting our affairs in order at this time.

VietVet

May peace, understanding and appreciation of your 46 years together help to soothe your loss.  May you and your son share remembrances about good times and those days when your dear wife was not affected by medical issues.  She's in a better place now, Terry, and I believe that GOD is in her care until such time as you and your son joins her.

Terry and Son -

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We have been busy making the proper arrangements for my wife. We have finalized plans at the funeral home and have arranged to have a nice service to honor her life. The service will be downtown on June 9th (Saturday) at 1PM at St. Paul's Church of Christ on Broad St. (across from the library). We want to meet at 12 noon for introductions and will have music from her favorite groups playing from Chicago and the Beatles. This information is posted to provide specifics. It is in no way intended to put any pressure at all on anyone to attend. We hope you will attend and are invited to participate if you would desire.

God Bless all of you for your kind responses of sympathy. You don't know how much this means to my son and I to know that people care. I appreciate your acts of kindness here. We are having a tough time dealing with this at this time and kind comments from my MUSA friends certainly help.