How beautiful !
Continuing to pray...
Posted on 11/28/2020 2:04:53 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Dear FRiends, Arrangements have been made with Whitehurst, Sullivan. Burns and Blair to lay my beloved wife Sheila to rest at 1:30, Wednesday, December 2 at Fresno Memorial Gardens. It will be a small graveside service with friends and family.
We selected a site that is very near where my mother and father and sister Thelma are buried. It's a small plot, but there is room there for me, too, someday.
This is by far the hardest and most heartbreaking thing I've ever done. Sheila was the light of my life. She loved God, loved life, and she loved nature and God's church of the greater outdoors.
Sheila was born November 15, 1950 in Fresno, CA. to Eino and Ruth Kulju of Reedley, CA. She went home to our Lord, whom she loved very much, on November 18, 2020, just three days past her 70th birthday and five months and five days after we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.
She grew up on a farm in Reedley where her father was foreman. As a little girl, she loved the freedom of farm life where she could climb trees and run barefoot with her dog through the orchards and vineyards. Her father grew a family orchard and garden in the yard of their home and she enjoyed plucking and eating juicy ripe peaches, plums and grapes fresh from the trees and vines and tomatoes, green onions and vegetables from the garden.
Her grandparents, Isaac and Katie Kulju, immigrated here from Finland sometime after the turn of the century--fleeing the Russians as the story goes. They settled and lived about 30 years on a farm on the west side of the Kings River, just north of the Manning Ave bridge that crosses over into Reedley. They were killed in 1937 on the way to church when their car was struck by a train.
Sheila was a patriot who loved America and loved freedom. We spent a large part of our last twenty years together traveling by van and RV, attending conservative events, rallies and protests from city to city and state to state. We ended up visiting every one of the contiguous 48.
We are laying her to rest dressed in one of her favorite patriotic shirts and hat and her stars and stripes earrings that she liked to wear to rallies. She'll also have her bible that was given to her by her Aunt Lina when she was in high school, and a flag she had hanging on the mirror of her dresser.
I thank God for the 50 loving years we shared together and our two wonderful sons He gave us.
...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part... and thus we are parted, my dear Sheila, but through the grace of God, we shall meet again some glorious day.
Dear God, I love and miss her so. Always will.
Thank you all very much for your support, your love and your prayers.
God bless.
Keeping you in my mind and heart, Jim.
Continuing to pray...
Teary.
JimRob, may you, John and Chris feel Sheila’s spirit close to you. You are all in my prayers.
JR...we send our condolences.
bE t peace Jim, in the knowledge your love is eternal and cannot be broken. You and your bride will remain forever in the body of Christ.
Beautifully said, Jim. May your children and grandchildren provide moments of relief in the days of your mourning.
RIP, Mrs. Sheila Robinson.
Peace and love, dear FRiend.
Prayers for the Robinson family.
The Sovereign God of the Universe, Jesus Christ holds the keys to the gates of life, death, and hades.
I pray you are comforted during this time and that you rest on His promises which are eternal.
God Bless you!
I’m so sorry for your loss. She will be waiting for you there. Prayers for you and your family and for the repose of her soul.
Sincere condolences, in faith it is just a moment before you will be together again forever.
May her Memory be Eternal!!! And may God bless you and your family!
Praying for Shelia , you, your family and friends
May God Bless the entire Robinson family.
Thank you all for what you have made possible and that you have done for the good of the nation.
From the man who had the privilege of knowing this beautiful woman, wife, mother, friend and to the family that had her love of life...God Bless you Jim, God Bless you...what a beautiful tribute...
God bless you and your family. May Sheila rest in peace within the arms of Christ.
Thank you so much for sharing her beautiful story.
More prayers.
Thank you for sharing your heartfelt love and devotion for your beautiful wife and to God who has blessed you with her and your children. May His Divine Comfort and Love sustain you and family.
Your wife sounds like a wonderful woman. Prayers for you and your loved ones!
May she Rest in Peace, and may you receive His ever constant Love and Knowledge that she is in His protection. And, dear FRiend, know that you will see her again. That which passeth all understanding. Prayers for you in mourning, Jim.
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