Kathy "Kathy" A. Hamilton R.N.

Kathy's dream since she was a little girl was to be a nurse. She became a mother early so that was not in the cards in the beginning. She spent her life working as an assistant in a doctors offices while raising her children. She was very involved in her children's activities She was a band mom and she was a Lady BUC mom always had her bag with bobby pins and dippity do all ready for the girls she was a ballet mom and and Power Cheer mom! She was also a very proud mother of a United States Marine and she would tell anyone who would listen about her son the marine! She was also a huge volunteer in the community. She was a VOP for the Port Orange Police Department and also served on their disaster response team she also was a volunteer for the Domestic abuse Council where she assisted battered women in finding a safe place for them and their children to relocate. She volunteered for many years taking calls through the night for the domestic abuse call center. When her children grew up she decided it was her time to go back to school she went to Daytona State college in 2000 and received her LPN she then went on and received her RN and she was voted as the valedictorian of the class to make a beautiful speech !! When she first graduated she worked at Florida Hospital on the oncology unit and hospice unit it was there that she found that her passion was for hospice she then went to work at the hospice care center in Port Orange where she worked for 14 years. feeling her body could no longer do the long shifts she switched to working for home health where it was there that she realized that her memory was not helping her at her job so she had to take an early retirement. it was one year later that she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. She lived her last remaining years at Madison Glenn independent living "Melrose Place" where she met some wonderful friends and a wonderful director "Angie" who treated our mom like her own for the past 2 years! She thought of you as a daughter her favorite day was when her daughter would come and play bingo with the residents she would ask every day when is Bingo!!!?

I want to thank Florida Hospital Memorial medical Center emergency room Dr. Coleman the intensive care unit there's so many wonderful nurses that touched our family to the operating room nurses to the chaplain and many friends and family that called and came by just to check on our mom. We want to personally thank Dr. Rasmussen Dr Aneja and Dr Birkedal all for coming in numerous times through the day / week to not only check on our mom but also to check on us. Thank you Dr Buchannan and her staff for taking care of our mom through the years! Thank you Volusia Memorial Funeral Home for all the help and guidance during this difficult time.

She is survived by her oldest son Louis Hamilton fiancé lisa her daughter Samantha Snowden husband John and daughter Jessica Hamilton fiancé Garth and her sister Bernadette Klebacher her husband Gene and her adopted daughter Deana and thank you for being true family. She is survived by 7 grandchildren Sydney, Mason, Jackson, Ayden, Jordan, Emmett and Gabriella and a granddaughter on the way! She is also survived by the rest of the Breen family in New Jersey.Services will be at laurel Grove cemetery in Totowa New Jersey where she will finally be laid to rest with her late husband Louis Joseph.

There will be a walk in her memory at the 2016 national Alzheimer's walk on September 24 the team name is Kathy's butterflies please contact her daughter if you would like to join the team in memory of kathy or if you would like to make a donation to the Alzheimer's Association!!

When tomorrow starts without me and I'm not there 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 that you think of me I know you'll 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've always thought I didn't want to die. I had so much to live for so much left yet to do. It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you. I thought of all the yesterday's the good ones and the bad I thought of all the love we shared and all the fun we had. If I could relive yesterday just even for a while I'd say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see you smile. But then I fully realize that this could never be for emptiness and memories would take the place of me. And when I thought of worldly things I might miss come tomorrow, I thought of you and when I did my heart was filled with sorrow. But when I walked through Heaven's Gate I felt so much at home when God looked down and smiled at me from his great golden throne, he said "this is eternity, and all I've promised you. your life on earth is past but here life starts anew. I promise no tomorrow, but today will always last. And since each days the same way, there's no longing for the past. You have been so faithful, so trusting and so true, though there were times you did somethings you knew you shouldn't do. But you have been forgiven and now at last year free. So won't you come and take my hand and share my life with me?" so when tomorrow starts without me don't think we're far apart for every time you think of me I'm right here in your heart! ❤️

You Will be Missed Mom more than you will ever know! But your memory will live on through your children and grandchildren we will continue to keep your memory alive! We love you mom!!! Condolences may be shared with the family by visiting www.volusiamemorialfunerals.com