This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Mary Stanley who was born in Winston-Salem North Carolina on March 30, 1932 and passed away on September 07, 2008 at the age of 76. We will remember her forever. She was the greatest, most loved wife, mama, mother-in-law, nanny, and old nanny in the world. She loved hummingbirds, sunflowers, and lighthouses. She loved her friends and her family but most of all she loved and lived her life for the Lord. Daddy always tells about when she first got sick and they went out for breakfast one morning, how she reached across the table, took him by the hand and said, "Don, you have been a good husband and a good daddy. And no matter how it goes, I will be okay." That is why the song "I'm A Winner Either Way" was sung at her funeral. We know that she is at Home in Heaven. We miss her so much.....

                                          WE LOVE YOU.............

Death is nothing at all.

It does not count.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.

I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.

Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, let my name be ever the household word it always was.

Let it be spoken without effort, without ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was.

There is absolute and unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you, for interval, in Heaven, just around the corner.      

All is Well.  

When tomorrow starts without me and I am not here to see. If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me.

I wish so much you wouldn't cry, the way you did today, while thinking of the many things we didn't get to say. I know how much you love me, as much as I love you, and each time you think of me, I'll know you miss me too.

But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand, that an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand. And said my place was ready in Heaven far above, and that I'd have to leave behind all those I dearly love.

But as I turned to walk away, a tear fell from my eye, For all my life I always thought I didn't want to die. I had so much to live for and so much to do, It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you.

I thought of all they yesterdays, the good one and the bad. I thought of all the love we shared and all the fun we had.

If I could relive yesterday, I thought for just a while, I'd say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see a smile. But then I realized that this could never be, for the emptiness and memories would take the place of me.

Don't think we are far apart: for every time you think of me-I'm right there-IN YOUR HEART.