Shirley A. Lehere, March 2, 1932 – January 31, 2009

They say memories are golden,

Well, maybe that is true;

I never wanted memories.

I only wanted you.

A million times I needed you,

A million times I cried;

If love alone could have saved you,

You never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly,

In death I love you still;

In my heart you hold a place

No one can ever fill

Since you’ll never be forgotten

I pledge to you today;

A hallowed place within my heart

Is where you’ll always stay.

If tears could build a stairway

And heartaches make a lane;

I’d walk the path to heaven

And bring you back again.

Our family chain in broken,

And nothing seems the same;

But as God calls us one by one,

The chain will link again.