Born Mary Louise Ouellette 18 Mar 1940 California

Jan 2026

Someone told me in Dec 2021 "wow you have made it beyond your expiration date" I'm 86 now...

Laugh out loud every day...

I have plenty of family left on this earth, they just don't want anything to do with Find A Grave, sadly...so how will I become a "Fallen Graver", when my expiration date catches up with me?

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3 May 2011 Arizona

Please Let's be kind to each other...being bullied isn't fun.

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3 May 2013

Another year, and so many people to "THANK". Photo volunteers are just the best...

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3 May 2015-1 Jan 2026

Choose Kindness

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One Final Gift

Scatter me not to restless winds

Nor toss my ashes to the sea.

Remember now those years gone by...

When loving gifts I gave to thee.

Remember now the happy times...

The family ties we shared

Don't leave my resting place unmarked

As though you never cared.

Deny me not one final gift

For all who come to see...

A single lasting proof that says

I loved....and you loved me.

by D. J. Kramer

To Those I love

If I should ever leave you whom I love

To go along the Silent Way, grieve not,

Nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk

Of me as if I were beside you there,

(I'd come… I'd come, could I but find a way!

But would not tears and grief be barriers?)

And when you hear a song or see a bird I loved,

Please do not let the thought of me be sad…

For I am loving you just as I always have…

You were so good to me!

There are so many things I wanted still to do…

So many things to say to you…

Remember that I did not fear…

It was just leaving you that was so hard to face…

We cannot see Beyond… But this I know:

I love you so…

'Twas heaven here with you!

 – Isla Paschal Richardson, (1886-1971)

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Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

--Anonymous