Friday, April 10, 2026
Constance, Connie, Connie Calendar, Aunt Connie, Baby Gabel and most recently Con Con,
50 years and 24 days. That is all we get. You picked me to be your Best Friend on March 13, 1976, the next day was your Birthday. Years later, I hear you tell people I was your Birthday Present. I do not get to hear that anymore. The plans we had next, I will still do them, just going to do them without your physical presence. I will always take you with me, you will never leave my heart.
Looking back at our thousands of photos, the videos we thankfully made, and the hundreds of trips we shared, I am truly grateful for everything we have experienced together.
I thought I was tough until I watched you fight this Monster; I got nothing on you kid. Nothing.
Danita, Lyns, Brandi, Teresa, Ben, Cody we did everything we could, and she knew how much she meant to us, she was loved beyond measure. She was so kind, funny, loving and that laugh, man am I going to miss that laugh. I will also miss her funny sayings, "that's about as funny as a crutch", "a real Knee Slapper" and her crooked smile she always pointed out with the pose to follow. Her attempts at sarcasm but she was too sweet to pull it off. The clicking noise she made that sounded like a trotting horse. Snoopy everything. The greeting cards with the envelopes covered in stickers that had better have arrived on time or I would surely get the call about "the Post Office". The hours of her showing me pictures of Cody and her nieces & nephews and their kids. Sharing updates each visit or phone call. Ben, how lucky you were to have had those twenty-two plus years together. She loved you and you made a beautiful home together. You gave her the one thing she never thought she would have, her precious Cody, the sweetest boy ever. Cody, you were everything to her, she was so proud of you. You made her so happy.
Danita, everyone could only wish to have a sister like you, a great friend like no other. I pray you find some Peace, and the good news starts to outweigh the bad.
Jeffrey, my dearest friend, thanks for being there to comfort her and hold me up.
To Connie's other family members, friends and co-workers, I know she fought this privately because in her mind, she was going to get better, go home, go back to work, then retire in a couple of years and watch those nieces, nephews and her son grow up, attend more weddings, baby showers, family events, have fun with friends and travel more.
Love you to the Moon and back and all those other Planets, Ruby