Until we meet again

You could say early this morning Tim lost the battle he had been fighting with cancer since early December 2006, but I prefer to think of it as he won.
As family gathered to say goodbye to the most wonderful husband, father, son, brother and friend we could have been blessed with Tim was granted peace from his pain & suffering & granted eternal life in heaven.
In this time of sorrow I know one thing for sure: The angels in heaven are laughing a little louder today. Never has a man with a bigger smile, louder laugh, our funnier sense of humor been greeted at the pearly gates.
Timmy we all love and miss you, until we are laughing together again. Your wife, Kathy

A celebration of Tim's life will be held:
Saturday February 10th at 1:00 pm
at the John Beaudet Senior Community Center
1525 Median Ave
Shasta Lake, CA 96019

In lieu of flowers the crew at sierra pacific has established a college fund for Katie and Jessica Kortuem. You can contribute at any NorthValley Bank to help Tim's wishes for the future come true.

I wish I had more good news

Let me start by saying it is hard to update when there is not allot of good news to share. I want to keep this blog hopeful which is hard to do right now. Tim continues to sleep more each day and continues to grow weaker. Anyone who knows Tim knows his strongest personality trait is his sense of humor. It is what attracted me to him in 1982 and what has kept me laughing all through the years. So the good news I can share is he still has his sense of humor. Yesterday morning Tim looked restless to me like he may have been in pain. I was crying ( I seem to be doing this allot now days) As I asked him if he needed pain medicine. He opened his eyes and looked at me and said you look like you are in pain. I said my pain is heartbreak and there is nothing we can do about this. He said there is enough pain medicine here take 2 and it will probably go away. It gave me a chuckle that he still has the energy to joke.
The other good news I can share is Tim was awake enough today to enjoy the pictures from the Timmy tourney. Thank you , Thank you, Thank you to Karen coffman for putting that photo album together.You will never know how much we appreciate it. The pictures are wonderful and the hand written notes even better. My favorite picture is the one on the front page I have hundreds of pictures of Tim I have taken over the years but none of him at work which is a huge part of who he is . I will treasure this. Also a big thanks to Patty Breedlove and Larry Carter for the picture Cd's. As a scrapbook fanatic You can never have too many pictures. I know this tournament was such a success due to many people's efforts not just a few so I thank all of you. Kathy