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Tudor -- IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM A. TUDOR JR. (BILLY) Dear son and brother who passed away 13 years ago March 13, 1990. It's been 13 years, yet it seems like only yesterday since we held your hand and told you just how much we loved you, and the last three words from your lips were,"I LOVE YOU" and you quietly slipped away. Thirteen years ago your golden heart stopped beating. God took you home to rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us He only takes the best! March 6th, your 43rd birthday was a sad and agonizing day. All we could do is visit your crypt, attend your Mass, bring you flowers and with broken hearts prayed and cried for hours. If we could have one lifetime wish; one dream that could come true, we would pray to God with all of our hearts for yesterday and you! The hardest thing in life we have ever had to do is let you go, a part of us died with you and we love and miss you so! It's been 43 years but it seems like only yesterday when you sat upon our knee. Oh, such sweet and precious memories that you have given and left with me. It seems like only yesterday when you began to talk, with your tiny hand held tightly and proudly in mine, you learned to walk. As precious years have come and gone, I've treasured each and every one. We love and miss you more than words can ever say my dear son!! So parents, PLEASE TREASURE, AND LOVE YOUR CHILDREN while you may, for I'd give anything if my son could be alive and with us here today! The Lord blessed us with SOMEONE SPECIAL when he lent us you. The Lord entrusted us with his greatest treasure, you brought all of us so much happiness and joy, indeed beyond any measure. I was the honored one when the Lord put you in my arms and made you my son!! I'll lend you for a little time, a child of mine, He said, for you to love the while he lives and mourn for when he's dead. It may be six or seven years or 42 or 43, but will you 'til I call him back, take care of him for me? He will bring you charms to gladden you, and shall his stay be brief, You'll have his lovely memories as a solace for your grief. I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return, but there are lessons taught down there, I want this child to learn. I've looked the wide world over, in search for mother's true, and from the crowd that crowds life's lane, I have selected you! (How proud and happy I was that God selected me to be your mother, and you (Billy) my precious and loving son!) Memory lives on, now, will you give him all your love, nor think the labor vain, nor hate me when I come to call to take him home again? I fancied that I heard them say,"DEAR LORD THY WILL BE DONE". For all the joy thy child will bring, the rise of grief we will run. We will shelter him with tenderness, we will love him while we may, and for the happiness we've known, forever grateful stay. But should the Angels call to him, much sooner then we've planned, We will brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand!! (One thing we know for certain, when you came into this world you definitely made it a better place!) Your memory is our keepsake, with that we will never part, God has you in His keeping, we have you in our hearts. You are not forgotten, DEAR SON AND BROTHER, nor will you ever be, As long as our life and memory last, we will always LOVE AND REMEMBER YOU!! Softly the leaves of memory fall, gently we gather and TREASURE them all. Unseen, unheard, YOU are always near, STILL LOVED, STILL MISSED AND OH SO VERY DEAR!! Nothing is more beautiful than the MEMORIES WE HAVE OF YOU. To us you were SOMEONE SPECIAL, We know God thought so too. You will forever be one of the most SPECIAL PEOPLE in our life. When you passed beyond our present sight and left us and the world we know without your radiant light. We all knew that like a candle your brilliant light would forever shine, to brighten up another place more perfect and more divine. In the realm of Heaven where you shine so warm and bright, you will live forever in God's eternal light. In life we loved you dearly, and always will, in our hearts you will always hold a very special place, no one can ever fill! We know that our love and precious memories of you, time nor distance will ever erase!!!! No one DEAR SWEET BILLY, CAN EVER FILL YOUR VACANT PLACE!!! SO WHEN TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT YOU and you're not here to see, when the sun rises and finds our eyes filled with tears for you and me. I know you would wish we wouldn't cry the way we did today, while thinking of the many things we didn't get to do or say. You know WE LOVE AND MISS YOU, while we try to understand, there was nothing we could do when an ANGEL came and called your name and took you by the hand. She kindly said your place was ready in HEAVEN far above; and that you would have to leave us all behind, those you dearly loved. We know when you walked through HEAVEN'S gate, GOD ushered you in without a minute's wait. We know that you were truly home, we know God had a purpose for our meeting, and a time for us to part. It's all part of GOD'S GREAT PLAN, a finish and a start. We know you were consumed with PEACE, and your suffering days were through, as you were filled with greatness you never knew. We know that you can't wait for the day, that you can share it all with us, for there will be so many people to see, so much to discuss. So we know that when tomorrow starts without you, We are never far apart. For we have a wonderful place for you, BILLY, right here in our hearts! If our LOVE alone could have saved you, BILLY, you never would have died! So another lonely and tormenting year has passed us by, we will ALWAYS REMEMBER OUR LAST GOOD-BYE. We were all there with you, when you breathed your last breath and I held your hand. Unless you're a MOTHER and have lost a son or daughter, no one can ever fully understand!! It is so sad but true, as we sit and cry, your brother and I often wonder..WHY? THE VERY BEST ARE ALWAYS THE FIRST TO DIE? It broke our hearts to lose you, Billy, but you did not go alone, part of your brother and I went with you, the day GOD called you home. OUR MEMORIES OF YOU REMAIN AS TREASURES SO REAL, FOR YOUR DEATH, BILLY, IS A HEARTACHE EVEN TIME CAN'T EVER HEAL....."We can shed tears that he is gone or we can smile because he has lived. We can close our eyes and pray that he will come back or we can open our eyes and see all he has left. Our hearts can be empty because we can't see him or we can be full of the love we shared. We can turn our back on tomorrow and live yesterday or we can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. We can remember him and only that he is gone or we can cherish his memory and let it live on. We can cry and close our mind, be empty and turn our back or we can do what he would want: SMILE, OPEN OUR EYES, LOVE AND GO ON" Sadly missed by..... Your Loving Mother Rose Ann and brother, Robert
        Published on: Sun March 16, 2003