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In Memory of
Elizabeth
Zielinski (Kamiyama)
1927 - 2017
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An Angel sent from God

My best Christmas ever while away from home. It was 1965 and I was in the U. S. Marine Corps awaiting my discharge when the Vietnam war got more intense. I had only three months left to finish out my four years enlistment in the Corps, when the Secretary of the Navy placed a stop loss on all Navy and Marine Corps personnel. Suddenly, I found myself heading to Vietnam and war. However, we had to stop in Okinawa Japan to prepare our equipment and ourselves prior to our deployment to Vietnam. As luck would have it, my Cousin Leo, his wife Betty and their six children were stationed there at a U. S. Air Force base. As I waited to deploy to Nam I had several opportunities to visit my cousin and his family. Christmas was upon us so Leo and Betty invited me too, and I was granted permission to spend that special Christmas with them. We had such fun, singing and eating, just like the Christmases we used to have as kids growing up in Michigan. Betty and her children treated me as if I were a special guest.

Many years later when Leo retired from the Air Force he and his family returned to Michigan to live. After Leo passed away, my Aunt Agnes got Betty a job and they became lifelong friends. Betty also cared for my aunt in her later years as if she were her own mother. Personally, I saw Betty as an angel, sent from God to our family because, she always loved everyone and cared and worried about everybody in our extended family, even if she didn’t interact with all every day. She was an angel to me in 1965 and I saw that she was that same angel in August 2017 at our family picnic. If a relative wasn’t present she would always ask me if I knew how they were doing or why they couldn’t attend. I didn’t always have an answer so she would tell me, she will pray that they were ok. She held no ill will towards anyone for any reason that I knew of. She truly cared about and prayed for everyone she knew personally. She also raised the most beautiful children this world could ever ask for.

Posted by Richard Yandura
Thursday December 28, 2017 at 11:42 am
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