Claire & Geri Butz
To Mike and family.
We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to you in the loss of your wife, mother, and grandmother. Know that you are in our thoughts and our prayers.
Claire & Geri Butz
Birth date: May 4, 1947 Death date: Oct 6, 2011
Patricia J. Gertson, 64, of Clinton, died Thursday, October 6, 2011 at her home surrounded by her loving family. There will be no services or visitation. The Clinton Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Homes and Crematory is in charge Read Obituary
To Mike and family.
We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to you in the loss of your wife, mother, and grandmother. Know that you are in our thoughts and our prayers.
Claire & Geri Butz
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails in the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she is only a ribbon of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!"
Gone where? Gone from my sight...that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her, and just at the moment when someone at my side says, There! She's gone!", there are other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There! She comes!"
And that is dying.
Take heart, Michael. You are not alone on this earth, and Pat waits for you when she will take up the shout, "There! He comes!"