LILLIAN NIELSON WILLIAMS 1920-2011
We had the good fortune to visit with Lillian's family, to express love from our family, and to attend her funeral. Grandpa Jay's greatest motivation to travel the great distance to Delaware was to represent your Great Grandpa Nielson, my father and her father, at the funeral. A good man that none of my children or grandchildren had the opportunity to know on this earth. I look forward to being able to introduce him to all of my wonderful family. We can all rejoin with Grandma Nielson and Lillian, and many others that we love so deeply. I need to say that Grandma Judy was incredibly supportive, as she always is, in our efforts to attend Lillian's Funeral.
Lillian was born on 15 July 1920, to Marvin Leroy Nielson and Lillian Penelope Thompson, in Garland Utah. Her mother died the day that Lillian was born.
Grandpa was asked to say a few words at the Cemetery. I used these two sources as the basis for my message to the family. Among other things, I told them that sometimes angels are sent to help those of us in need that remain on the earth. Often angels are sent who love us the very most and who are familiar with us. Sometimes they are seen and sometimes they are unseen. Sometimes the angels are sent as spirits and sometimes angels are those mortals around us that see our need and reach out to help.
President Joseph F. Smith gave us some insight about angels who minister to those on the earth: “When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from among our kindred, friends, and fellow-beings and fellow-servants. The ancient prophets who died were those who came to visit their fellow creatures upon the earth. They came to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; … such beings … waited upon the Savior and administered to him on the Mount. … Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, or reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.”
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, 2008 General Conference,
"My beloved brothers and sisters, I testify of angels, both the heavenly and the mortal kind. In doing so I am testifying that God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face. “[N]or will he, so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or there shall be one man [or woman or child] upon the face thereof to be saved.”13 On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal."
We had the good fortune to visit with Lillian's family, to express love from our family, and to attend her funeral. Grandpa Jay's greatest motivation to travel the great distance to Delaware was to represent your Great Grandpa Nielson, my father and her father, at the funeral. A good man that none of my children or grandchildren had the opportunity to know on this earth. I look forward to being able to introduce him to all of my wonderful family. We can all rejoin with Grandma Nielson and Lillian, and many others that we love so deeply. I need to say that Grandma Judy was incredibly supportive, as she always is, in our efforts to attend Lillian's Funeral.
 |
| This is a precious photography of young Lillian. It was framed on her night stand when I visited her in the rest home in Virginia in the fall of 2010. |
OCEAN VIEW, DELAWARE - Lillian Nielson Williams, 91, of Ocean View, and formerly of Bethesda, Md., passed away on Nov. 13, 2011, at home in the care of her loving family. She is survived by three children, David Larry Williams and his wife Janice, Debra Cooper, and Linda Warner and her husband Michael. She has ten grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. A funeral service and celebration of her life will be held on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, at noon at the Watson Funeral Home, 211 S. Washington St., Millsboro, where friends may call one hour prior for viewing and visitation with the family. Bishop Kent Elkington will preside over the service. Interment will follow at the Delaware Veteran's Memorial Cemetery, Millsboro. Electronic condolences may be sent to www.watsonfh.com.
 |
This is most of Lillian's family. Larry, kneeling at left center, is the second son of Bob and Lillian. Jimmy, the oldest child died, I believe, in Alabama years ago. Debbie is in the blue dress with her three sons in front and on her left. Linda is in the center back with her husband Mike.
|
President Joseph F. Smith gave us some insight about angels who minister to those on the earth: “When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from among our kindred, friends, and fellow-beings and fellow-servants. The ancient prophets who died were those who came to visit their fellow creatures upon the earth. They came to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; … such beings … waited upon the Savior and administered to him on the Mount. … Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, or reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.”
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, 2008 General Conference,
 |
| This is the chapel at the cemetery over looking the cemetery grounds. Linda and her husband Mike, are sitting in front of Lillian and her casket. |
 |
| Bob and Lillian |
 |
| We captured this photo of the heavens as we headed home from the funeral. A fitting conclusion to a wonderful day with family. |
No comments:
Post a Comment