Tuesday, December 29, 2015
My husband Gerry & I have known Pam for a long time. We had a family run commercial flooring business in Albuquerque, NM. We have since retired. In October of 1987, Tom Keeton ( Keeton Sales) brought his daughter Pam (Special Ed School Teacher in CO Springs) with him for some flooring product demonstrations. Here was this vivacious woman whom I immediately became fast friends with. Soon we became best friends and she would come from CO to ABQ Balloon Fiesta every year to stay with us. We would go up to the Springs every Labor Day Weekend with our balloon. When she came down with flooring products she would stay with us. Overtime, we could meet for balloon rallies. It I told her where, she was there! We also were in Construction Specifications Institute together and she would come here to those meetings when she was the CSI National Membership Chairman. She had a lot of friends here in ABQ and all over the world that she made when she traveled. She loved to travel especially to Hawaii, Europe, the Middle East , China and lots of cruises. She wanted to walk the Great Wall of China and she did. She wanted to see the Pyramids in Egypt and walk the Holy Lands, and she did.She was so full of life, always full of suggestions of things to do. The dust didn't settle under her feet much. She enjoyed life and had this infectious smile that you just knew she was on to something else. We explored both New Mexico and CO together. I took her places the tourist didn't go and she did the same. We were a pair of Kindred Spirits. To say I really, really miss her is beyond words! For the past year and a half she had been trying to get her strength and mobility returned. She was a fighter until she finally just gave up when she realized her life would never be the same again. She struggled with her heart and mind. Just when she thought she was making headway, her body would revolt on her. This made her very frustrated and angry and depressed. She fought those feelings bravely as long as she could. The Diabetes, Marie Chalet's Bone Disease, Strokes.....,she suffered, now she is at Peace. She stated shortly before she passed that she didn't want to live the rest of her life like this. She called me to say "Goodbye Dear Friend. I will always remember you. Even when you get made at me and tell me to stop 'saying those things' when I tell you I"m ready for God to take me.
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