Virginia L. Smith

In loving memory of Virginia L. Smith, whose birthday is July 2, 1939, who passed away December 3, 2006.

Your birthday comes again this year with great pain and sorrow for us. This is your second birthday we must spend without you and the heartache is still as great. I hope, as you promised, that you are looking down from heaven and smiling at us every day. We will try to remember and live by this poem that a dear friend sent to us.

You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she has left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her and only that she's gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want: Smile, Open your eyes, Love and Go ON!

Author unknown.