Well Mama its been ten years.  It seems like yesterday.  I need you so very much.  You were my rock, my foundation and now it has a crack in it.  Please visit me in my dreams... I love and miss you more than you can imagine.  Hug daddy for me...

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since you went to Heaven my sweet mama. It feels like yesterday. I love and miss you so much. I find peace knowing you are no longer suffering.

Well hi mama.  It has been awhile but that doesn't mean I don't think of you each and everyday.  You just wouldn't believe what our world has become.  I so miss you.  I really wish you could see Sinai and Caleb and just how precious they are.   There are so very many things I would like to share with you but I will just have to keep them in my heart.  I love and miss you terribly.  

Tina 

Yesterday was your birthday mama and I so longed to talk to you.  Today though, especially tonight, Im having a hard time!  I love and miss you so.  

Tina

Hi my mommy up in Heaven, it's so hard to believe this will be my 4th Christmas without you. I still find myself buying extra Christmas presents like you use to ask me to do in case you needed to give someone a present that you had not bought one for. My heart still hurts so much . I love you so so much mama. I hope you know how much I miss you. Merry Christmas in heaven and tell daddy I love him and miss him.


Oh mama I didnt know I could still put anything on here.  I thought it was closed.  I miss you so very much.  It has been over three years since you left us and I still think if you every day.  I put a picture on here earlier and when it went I I decided to tell you how very much I love and miss you while I could.  I still listen to your voice on my voice mail from time to time but it still makes me sad.  Until we meet again know that I love you and miss you sooooooo very much.   Tina 

I know you didnt like taking pictures but Daddy has a picture on his page and I just wanted you to have one!  I love you!  Tina

Oh mama I didnt know we could still write to you on here!  I thought it was closed out!  I have so longed to talk to you.  You have been gone for three years now and so much has happened.  I hope that you and Daddy are together and are as happy as any two people can be!  I wish I could just hear your voice one more time!   It used to hurt my feeling when you would tell me that I would never know what I wanted but I would give anything to hear that again!  I love you so very much!  I miss you!  Love Tina

I miss you so much mama.  I hope you know how much I love you.  I wrote you on daddy's today because I didn't think I could still write on yours.  Love Tee

Mama it is so hard to believe that you have been gone for two years now. I still miss you so very much.  You will remain in my heart and memories until me meet again.  I love you.  Tina 

Well mama today it has been 1 year at 5:29pm. It feels like it was yesterday.  My heart still hurts and I still cry every day because I'm selfish.  I wish you were here but I know you are in a better place and no longer suffering.  Please know how much I love you and will see you again. Sending you hugs in heaven mama. I love you mama.

Well mama, it has been one year today since you fell.  Tomorrow will be one year since you went to heaven.  While I know in my heart you are in a much happier place and are no longer struggling for every breath you take, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't long to talk to you.  I hope that your garden in heaven is as beautiful as the one you had at home here.  I hope that your skies are always beautiful and your nights peaceful.  Even though I can't see or talk to you, I know you are watching over us.  I have a message from you on my phone that I listen to but not too very often because it only makes me miss you more.  We are still together even though we are apart because you have a piece of my heart that went with you when you left.  I guess this will be the last time I write you in here because the Guest Book only stays online for a year but know how very much I love you.  Until we see each other again, I send my love each and everyday.  I love you mama.

Hey mama its Sunday and I am missing you so much. Just sitting here wishing i would have had more time with you but you were so tired and the Lord did not want you to suffer anymore. Please know I love you so much. You can come visit me anytime the stairway to heaven is open. You baby girl Paula

Hi way up there in heaven mama.  I have had you on my mind so very much lately.  I hope you know how very much I miss and love you.  It has already been almost seven months and it is still so hard to believe that you are gone.  I can close my eyes and see you but that doesn't ease the pain. There are days when my heart feels so heavy that I can hardly go on.  There are days when my tears are uncontrollable.  For the most part I handle it pretty well but on those days I don't, I don't know what to do.  I hope that your days in heaven are filled with all the joy possible because you deserve it mama.  We were all blessed with you and I hope now that you are being blessed and rewarded for being such a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and just a generally good person.  I am sending  you love and hugs as I look up to the sky everyday.  I hope you can feel them.  Miss you and love you soooooo much.

It's Saturday morning mama and the hours have turned to days and and the days over a week.  It doesn't seem to get any easier.  Thursday was the worst day yet.  I couldn't get you off of my mind.  I was having a bad day and reached to call you so you could give me those ever so encouraging words of wisdom that only you can do and you were gone.  I know you are with us....you just can't respond in a verbal way.  We haven't left daddy since the day after you earned your wings.  He is strong as long as we are with him but the nights are hard on him.  He remembers the time of night when you were able to muster up enough strength to sit and talk a bit and he longs for those few hours each night.  We all long for just a few more days with you.  In the end the result would be the same.  You were going to leave us as we all have to make that journey.  We all must make that journey alone as well but you know we were all there with you as you exited the world that so longed to keep you in it.  Forgive me for wanting so desperately to leave your home filled with everything you love and wanted to be able to hug you goodbye and tell you I love you.  I still tell you each time I leave but I can not physically give you a hug....So here's a great big hug as I miss you so very much this Saturday and everyday.  You were and are the worlds gretaest mama....Cindy

"Hello maw maw!"  " Hello David Nelson". It breaks my heart that I will never say that to you again and you won't say that back to me again. I tried writing something on here yesterday but it didn't go through but hopefully you got it even if the paper didn't. It has been an absolute pleasure of mine to have you in my life. If I had to pick one favorite thing about you , it would be the way you laughed and smiled. It wasn't a loud laugh by any means it was short and sweet and always followed by that crooked smirk at the end. I have stayed with paw paw a few nights since you have passed and to make a long story short , he has cried , hurt inside , and faithfully written you every morning in the journal Cindy got him . I took him fishing today and as we were leaving the house he said " It feels strange not to tell Sara I will be back later". I told him to say it like you were on the front porch , he did and it made him feel like it was ok to go. Goodbye is word you say to someone you don't plan on seeing again so I will say see ya later because one day we will all be together again and I can't wait to hug you when I get to heaven. Thank you for always being good to me and loving me. I love you and will carry you in my heart until we meet again. "Goodnight maw maw"  " good night David Nelson".

missing even more today mama, if only I had another day to tell you how much I love you and how blessed I am to have a mother like you. It hurts because now I will not be able to tell you and hug you. I love you so much and miss you so very much.

Well mama its been one week since you drew your last breath and earned your wings and walked through heavens door.  the nights are the worst.  I can sit here now and see all of the signs that you were leaving us and I ask that you please forgive us for being selfish and not seeing them.  We just wanted you with us no matter the cost.  In the end, while it is the hardest blow we have ever been dealt we know it was best that you go home.  No more struggling to breathe, and prayers for relief.  Releif came in one swift moment and for that I am thankful.  I miss hearing your sweet voice every night telling me goodnight.  Oh how I miss those calls at lunch to see how your day was going, the answer was always the same and I knew it would be I still had to ask in hopes it would be a good day.  Well now all days are good and you can breathe without struggle.  I have countless memories deep within my heart.  While you took part of my heart as you departed this life my memories are intack and you are alive and well with what is left be it broken ot not.  Your values are instilled in Chad and I thank you for always giving so much of yourself selflessly never asking anything in return.  My only hope is that I am one fourth of the person you were.  You always told me I had your strength.  If this is a testament to that strength I am afraid I may fail.  I know you are watching over us and I thank you for always taking such good care of us and continuing to do so.  I love you so very much and miss you terribly.  Good night in heaven mama....Rest well

Mama, you always joked around with me about how I could never make up my mind or make a decision on my own, how I never knew what I wanted.  Well you would be so proud to know that for once in my life, I do know what I want.  If only I could see you one more time and tell you how very much I love you.  I would give anything in the world to be able to hug you.  I know that you are no longer struggling to breathe and you are no longer in pain and for that I am so very grateful.  The pain that I feel inside in almost unbearable.  There are no words or actions that anyone can say or take that can ease my broken heart.  Being around Daddy, Chuck, Cindy and Paula helps a lot but when you left us and went to heaven you took a small portion of each of us with you.  You gave so much of yourself so selflessly to everyone and everyone who knew you loved you.  Thank you for everything that you did for me and my family throughout the years.  Please know that I cherish each and every memory that I have of you.  I hope that you took with you all of the love that each of us have for you.  The love that you gave to us throughout our lives will keep us going until me meet again.  I miss you so much. I love you mama.  Tina

mama I am missing you so much. I love you and would give anything to hear your voice and see you again. When you left you took my heart and soul with you. I love you so much mama.

Sara, you fought long and hard to stay with us but you are at peace now. Your love kept our family together and your strength gave us hope. You gave the greatest gift of all to me, a wonderful husband and father. My personal note of appreciation is entwined with you forever. Love, your fourth daughter, Kathy

Sara, your strength gave us hope, your love gave us comfort and your spirit will be with us forever. Your wishes and traditions will be honored and now you can rest in peace. My personal note of admiration entwined with you forever; Much Love, Your Fourth Daughter, Kathy

I really don't know how to start over after losing the greatest mother any child could ask for.  So I guess I just need to realize how very blessed I am that she was the inspiration and driving force in molding good, modest values in not only the minds and lives of her children but her childrens friends and many neices and nephews.  So I will not start over but continue with the legacy that she has began.  I want to thank you mama for always being there to pick me up when I fell, scold me when I was bad and hug me like only you could do.  I hope you know as you left this earth for your place in GODS garden how very much I loved you and that you took part of my heart with you as you stepped through heavens gate.  I can not end any night without saying goodnight, so for the third night Good Night in Heaven my sweet mama.  My heart is broken and I miss you so....Cindy

I cannot express how much I miss you.  So much of who I am is because of you.  I will love you always.

The greatest mother a son could ever ask for. I love you and miss you so very much. Your love kept me on the right path in life. Your guidance made me strong.My heart is broke but I know you are in Heaven. You will always be with me............I love you, Your Son

Out deepest sympathy for all of the Riley's, it has been almost a year since Dad won his trip to heaven-I just have to keep reminding myself that he didn't loose a battle he claimed his golden ticket. I love you all and you are in my prayers. God bless!

"Father I stretch My hands to thee no other help I know.Paula continue to look to the hills from which cometh all your help,and all your help comes from the lord,my prayers are with you and your family.To be absent from the body is to be present with the lord god bless I love you my sister in christ.Press on I'm a witness that god will be with you.

My deepest condolences to the Riley family.  I went to school with Tina at Baker High School and some elementary schools.  The loss of a dear mother is tragic and my heart goes out to the family.

I lost my beloved mama as you can see. I love you mama so much and my heart is broke. I cannot imagine my life without you. I know you told me to be strong but you did not realize how much I love you. I know you are not suffering any more and no more troulbe breathing. I love you mama and will see you again.

Paula Riley Powell

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Sara Francis Riley

9 janvier 1941 – 28 octobre 2014

Striffler-Hamby Mortuary - Columbus

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