A San Diego native, Mary was the first born of Archie Lee Knight and Betty Knight. She attended Crawford High School and married Edward Meissner, and became a Marine Corps wife. While stationed in Hawaii, her mother’s birthplace, Mary turned twenty-one. She celebrated her 31st birthday in Tehran, Iran! Though she spent most of her life in San Diego she did live a brief time in Las Vegas Nevada too.
Three of her greatest joys were her grandsons, Joshua, Joseph, and Jacob. Her car licenses plate proudly proclaimed ‘3JNANA’. When her great-grandchildren began to arrive there were 5 generations in the photo as her mother was still alive!
Mary loved making little things for the kids or decorating for a holiday or event. She was an amazing seamstress and very crafty, making blankets, straw flower pictures for the walls, crocheted bead necklaces and tole painting. She was an amazing drawer of cartoons, especially Disney, and almost took a job working for Disney. She won first place at the Del Mar Fair 4 years running for her miniature whiskey bottle collection and display. She served the Seaside Scrollers Club for many years and was a member of the Dachshund Club too, making many carts for her dogs to ride in local parades.
While her main occupation was being a homemaker, she also managed apartments, bartended, drove a school bus and worked as a caregiver companion.
Mary was proceeded in death by her father, Archie Lee Knight, mother, Betty Stabile, stepfather, Tony Stabile, three husbands, Edward Meissner, Louis Garcia, and Donald Lester. She is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (Joe) Palechek, grandsons Joshua (Stephanie) Palechek, Joseph (Sami) Palechek and Jacob (Leighann) Palechek, greatgrandchildren Jason, Norma-Jean, Hope and Hunter and final partner, George Rhoomes.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21 AMP
So we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were making His appeal through us; we [as Christ’s representatives] plead with you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.
He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is , we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious loving kindness].
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