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Dec 2014 MERRY CHRISTMAS MOM From: Trisha Heldt-Brucker shared a video to your timeline. Merry Christmas! This is a very special video specially gift wrapped for you and all that you do for the missing and their families! Merry Christmas to you and your family also a tribute to your beautiful mom ! Love you and enjoy.. __________ Oh Trisha Heldt-Brucker this is the MOST BEAUTIFUL Video...it made me cry for many reasons. Nobody has ever done anything like this for me before....it has so many beautiful memories of my mom and her last days....and, I am so touched that you took the time to do something so absolutely beautiful. I am going to somehow download this and put on my mom's memorial website. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The best Christmas present ever!! XOXOXO



1st Anniversary video of my mom's passing. made by daughter, with love from all.


Video made by daughter.
Played throughout my mom's calling hours.







Memorial video of my mother. 
A few days prior to my mom suffering her massive stroke, she wrote me this email:

 -----Original Message----- From: Annamarie Fairbanks [mailto:afpainter@webtv.net] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 3:31 PM 
To: itsmecyndi@comcast.net 
Subject: LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING LYRICS - FRANK SINATRA

 please Cyndi make a print out of this song(its the one and only that i sing pretty well with out going out of tune ha ha ha. 

On Tues, August 28th, sometime in the morning my mom had a massive stroke which paralyzed her. It was not until the following morning that she was found on her couch by a maintenance man who had a scheduled appt to come to her apartment and change her light bulbs. Of all the times for a stroke to happen, it was on a day that my mom was normally unreachable as she traveled on Tuesdays to a casino by bus. I would receive at least 8 emails each day from my mom.

That morning, on Wed., I thought it odd that she did not send an email to tell me all about her casino. However I began work and around 11 am received the call from the ambulance attendant. It truly was a blessing that she did not pass in the night as it enabled me to spend 9 days with her in ICU and 9 days in hospice. It also enabled her to nod as to her wishes for a feeding tube , or not. She chose not. Following her passing I went to her home and her answering machine was full. To my and my brothers surprise...the very first message was one she sent to herself. In the message she was singing Love Is A Many Splendid Thing. My brother was able to remove some of the background and I was able to embed into this video.  
This video is of my mom's own voice, singing. We will treasure it forever.