This document contains memorial quotes and poems dedicated to Jessica L. Thompson-Valenzuela and Valerie E. Sias who passed away in 2011. It includes short excerpts and lyrics from Tom Petty, John Henry Newman, Anna Brownell Jameson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Flavia Weedn expressing themes of remembrance, loss, and the impact of loved ones who have died. It concludes with an Irish blessing wishing peace, warmth, and God's protection.
2. You and I will meet again, when we're least expecting it;
One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face;
I won't say goodbye my friend, for you and I will meet again.
Tom Petty
3. And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
John Henry Newman
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7. As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so
absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a
foretaste of death.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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11. He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of
angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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14. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some
stay for a while, leave footprints in our hearts, and we
are never, ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
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21. May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at
your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and
the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet
again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
Irish Blessing
