Family History & Photos - Packer/McKinlay: Dean and Dottie Family

Dean and Dottie Family

Deanne and Kathryn

My brothers and best friends!

My sweet sisters!

One of our last group pictures with our dear mother.

Our family cabin.

Allan with Grandson.

Dean and Dottie Packer Family Photos

Near Mackay ranch, on the way to the Seattle World's Fair.

Various

Near Mackay ranch, on the way to the Seattle World's Fair.

TO THOSE I LOVE by Isla Paschal Richardson

If I should ever leave you, whom I love,

To go along the Silent Way, grieve not,

Nor speak of me with tears,

But laugh and talk of me

As if I were beside you there.

(I'd come--I'd come, could I but find a way!

But would not tears and grief be barriers?)

And when you hear a song or see a bird I loved,

Please do not let the thought of me be sad ..

For I am loving you just as I always have ...

You were so good to me!

There are so many things I wanted still to do

So many things to say to you ...

Remember that I did not fear. . .

It was Just leaving you that was so hard to face ...

We cannot see Beyond ...

But this I know: I loved you so

'Twas heaven

Here with you!

SEQUEL TO "TO THOSE I LOVE" by Dean Packer

And so I had to leave you, whom I love,

Have gone up that Silent Way,

Cheer up!

Come, speak to me with jeweled eyes And laugh and thrill

To be beside me--here--again.

(I'll come--I'll come to you, And show the way!

Nor tears nor grief be barriers now.)

We'll hear those songs And see those birds we love.

Please let the thoughts of me

Be glad ... for I am loving you

More than I ever have ...

You were so good to me.

There are so many things I'll say to you,

So many things we'll see and do,

Remember, we had no fear...

It was being apart that was hard to bear ,

Come! Together we'll see Beyond,

With perfect eyes ...

And this I know: I love you so ...

'Twill be heaven here--again

With you!

Whom I love.