Barbara Mae Benefield - Online Memorial Website

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll rememberDiane Frolov and Andrew Schneider


       This memorial website was created to remember our angel Barbara Benefield. She was born to Woodrow and Mary Lou Ward on May 1st, 1944 in Richwood, West Virginia. She was married on June 17th 1961 to Donald C. Benefield.


      My grandma fought a long hard battle with cancer and although it was one of the hardest things i've ever had to witness i also seen just how much love she had for each and every one of us, because she fought to hold onto life because she didnt want us to hurt with her leaving. My grandma was an amzing woman who brightened the life of all she touched, she loved spoiling us grandkids till our parents were so upset they didnt know what to do. She also loved to collect Coca Cola memorabilia and Fenton Ware, her dream was to have a coca cola kitchen, and she wanted her pinto to become the butterfly mobile! She loved spending time with my grandpa getting firewood or camping. She also loved halloween and Christmas they were her two favorite holidays and every halloween you never knew what to expect, and on christmas her yard was so lit up you could see it for quite a ways. She's the only person i knew with flying  reindeer cows! She was the type of woman who would give you the last nickel she had, or the shirt off her back if it would help you. She never met someone she couldnt love and she proved that by just loving everyone.

Imagine

 

That the stars above

Are really the souls

Of your loved ones

Keeping watch over

You all through

The night

 

 

If tears could build a stairway

If tears could build a stairway,

And memories a lane,

I would walk right up to heaven

And bring you back again.

 

No farewell words were spoken,

No time to say "goodbye"

You were gone before I knew it,

And only God knows why.

 

My heart still aches with sadness,

And secret tears still flow,

What it meant to love you-

No one will ever know.

 

But now I know you want me

To morn for you no more;

To remember all the happy times,

Life still has much more in store.

 

Since you will never be forgotten,

I pledge to you today-

A hollowed place in our hearts,

Is where you will always stay.

 

WHISPERS FROM HEAVEN

When I left this world without you

I know it made you blue.

Your tears fell so freely,

I watched; I know this is true.

While you were weeping,

Days after I passed away-

While all was silent within me,

I saw you kneel to pray.

From this wonderful place called heaven

Where all my pain is gone,

I send a gentle breeze to whisper,

"my loved ones,please go on"

The peace that I have found here

Goes far beyond compare

No rain, no clouds, no suffering-

Just LOVE from everywhere.

You need not be troubled

Just stay close to GOD in prayer

Someday we'll be reunited

My love, HIS love surrounds you always,

EVERYWHERE!