Hello All.
While the last 48 hours have been nothing short of exhausting for all of us, the outpouring of love and concern for our family has been nothing short of AMAZING!
We spent the afternoon today with Dad at the funeral home making arrangements for the final services to honor the incredible life of our Mother and wanted to share them here with you.
Friends and Family are invited to join us in gathering to pay your respects to our Mother at the visitation reception:
Public Visitation:
Thursday evening, April 4th, 2013
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Pollock ~ Best Funeral Home
2015 Neuse Boulevard
New Bern, NC 28560
(252) 637-5111
Funeral Director, Mr. Larry Jernigan
There will be a Family visitation held in the Relief Society room of the LDS Church one hour before the funeral service. All members of our family are welcome to join us in that hour. Funeral Service to follow immediately afterward in the Chapel.
Family Visitation:
Friday morning, April 5th, 2013
10:00 - 10:45 AM (Doors will close at 10:45 to allow time for a private final prayer with our Mother.)
(LDS) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/ New Bern Ward
1207 Forest Drive
New Bern, N.C. 28562
Funeral Service:
Friday Morning, April 5th 2013
11:00 AM in the Chapel at the same LDS Church as above.
Procession and Interment Ceremony:
Immediately following the Funeral service. (begins at apx 12:30PM)
Procession from the Church service to the Hamilton Family Plot in the Bridgeton Cemetery,
Highway 55, East Across the river, left to Half Moon Road (across from Broad Creek Road) Enter grounds at first left after turning onto Half Moon.
We look forward to sharing the days ceremonies with you and again, greatly appreciate your generous support of our family in this difficult time.
The Hamilton Family
(Nite everyone)
Just so you guys know, the Address for the Church building in New Bern is 1207 Forest Drive--the Alexander Drive address might be from Bishop Frogley.
ReplyDeleteAll my love,
Kimberly Bingham
Thanks Kim. I googled the address. Don't trust everything you read on the internet. Correction being made now.
DeleteDear Mom - I hope that you can see this. My heart is breaking tonight because I can't be there tomorrow with the rest of the family to say my last goodbye. But I was so lucky to have you as my mother for the last 35 years, that I don't want to seem ungrateful. For some reason the Lord has seen fit to allow me to experience this injury at this time. I believe God, in his wisdom has a plan, and I promise whatever I need to learn from this I will learn, without bitterness, because you taught me to endure to the end and make the best of things, even while enduring great physical pain with faith and a smile.
ReplyDeleteYou and Dad opened your arms to a rather know-it-all, and somewhat lost little girl who really needed a stable set of parents to lean on. (Even if Dad did call me "Tracey" or "what's-her-name" for the first 4 months.) I don't even remember a time when I didn't call you Mom and Dad. Your love was so unconditional from the very start that calling you anything else would have been un-natural. And I'm not the only one, there are plenty of "Honorary Hamiltons" that even now call you Mom, a testament to your endless capacity to love.
You and Dad raised a son who has always treated me with the deep love and respect that is befitting a Priesthood holder for his eternal companion. I owe most of my happiness in this life to that one fact. Kim has stood by me through things that most men would have chosen to walk away from. But you taught us that no marriage is perfect, because people aren't perfect, and with forgiveness, faith and hard work, we can have joy in marriage in spite of our imperfections.
Like a true Mother, I appreciate those quiet times that you took me aside to let me know when I was wrong and that I needed to make a change. Never with any anger, but always with the concern of a mother who wants her daughter to make good choices. Those times were few, (thanks in part to your good example) but you were ALWAYS right, and because you were you, I was happy to accept your counsel.
I also remember with gratitude, those times you handed us a fist full of cash when we needed it, always given with love and never, ever making us feel like failures for taking it.
I can't even count the number of "strays" that you took into your home, because they needed help, a tradition that Kim and I still continue today because of your Christ-like example.
I also know that you were not without your own set of heartaches. The last few winters that you spent in our home gave Kim and I an opportunity listen and help bear some of your burdens, which only served to strengthen the bonds that I am certain will bind us through the eternities.
I have no regrets, because I never missed an opportunity to put my arms around you and tell you how much I love you. I have no sadness, because now you are free of pain. I have only gratitude because you were a part of my life. I will miss you terribly, but I have a feeling you will never be very far away. :-)
'Till we meet again, all my love,
Stacey