Tributes - Jacquelyn Marie Gonsalves Towles
August 31, 1937 - September 20, 2009
by Cindy Towles
When
I was going through all our family’s albums in order to find
pictures for this Collage that my aunt’s husband, Marco, made, I
noticed that my Mom was always smiling or laughing in them. And
that’s how she was a lot of the time. I don’t know if all of you
know this or not, but she also could be very funny. I think it
was last week when she had put out all of her fall decorations
and we were sitting on the couch admiring them, and she turns to
me and says, “Does it look like the Fall fairy threw up in here
or what?”
She loved decorating her home, and she loved everything in it,
her pets (I don’t know if Marco put the picture with our old dog
Teena in her lap in the collage). She loved all our dogs, cats,
even our fish and hamsters. She even loved the plants.
She also loved babies and children. She used to say about them
“They’re Life!” She was just beside herself when she got her
granddaughters. The last time she was in the hospital, my
brother and Elizabeth and Rebekah went to pick her up and they
were wheeling her to her car in the wheel chair and each twin
were on either side of her and each had one of her hands. That
moment made her really happy.
In addition to her decorating, Mom had her artistic side, making
many flower arrangements and ceramic items.
I would be leaving out something if I didn’t mention her love of
watching QVC, a home shopping channel. She really didn’t spend a
lot of money there but just like to look, especially at Jewelry.
When my dad was alive he used to say the QVC phone number was
permanently burned into the TV screen.
And finally, my mom loved church. During the worship songs,
tears would often roll down her face.
Mom did not succumb to Breast Cancer. She had been declared
cancer-free at her last PET scan, but was undergoing radiation
because most the lymph nodes that had been removed at her
mastectomy had tested positive, and her Oncologist wanted to
prevent any reoccurrence. It was her huge heart that finally
gave out.
Mom had been reading the night before she went to be with the
Lord, and the scripture “He brought them forth also with silver
and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their
tribes.” was at the top of the page the book was opened to. It
speaks of a healed body, and because of her personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, she is now with Him and now has
a glorified body, perfect and pain-free.
