This is the most beautiful tribute I think I have read. May Holy Spirit's blessings be with you and hold you through the days ahead. Virginia in Seattle . ----- Original Message ----- From: "tsayonah" <mtndream@ix.netcom.com> To: <CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:15 AM Subject: [Cherokee Circle] Tsayonah on Spirit Trail > Osiyo my brothers and sisters, > This is the hardest part of the whole dying thing, telling your > bride's friends that she is on the spirit trail. Tsayonah left this vale > of tears a little before 0800 this morning. > Sue was born on April 7, 1948, in Kearney, Nebraska. She was raised > in Denver, Salina, Kansas, and graduated from high school in > Minneapolis, Minnesota. I met her in 1968, at college in Omaha, Nebraska > and we were married in 1973 in Minneapolis. We moved to North Carolina > in 1974 and, it was there that Sue found her skill of the tender hand > and light touch with animals. This took her into the career of dog and > cat grooming. When we moved back to Iowa, she opened her own shop and > had a lot of critters who loved her. > In 1973. Sue had a surgery for obesity. This was new surgery and > noone knew the complications that would happen. It isn't nice to fool > Mother Nature and the complications of the surgery eventually led to > multi organ failure and she died comfortable and at peace this morning. > Sue hated funerals so we will not have one. We will celebrate her > life, rather than morn her death. That is what she wanted and that is > what we will do so I ask you, her friends, to remember her in your > prayers but do not morn for her or for me. I know I will be with her > again. She just left me for a better man, the Lord. > donadagohvi, > Soquiliwodi, Tsayonah's husband and life mate > > > ==== CHEROKEE Mailing List ==== > <<>OPEN forum to all Cherokee topics - except Genealogy<>> > <>Culture-History-Language-Folk lore and Truths<> > Good Manners & Language is required to be on the list > ALL the links you will need to sub and unsub or contact listowner below > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Native/CHEROKEE.html > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >