Judie Talley

Judie was a gift. She was as clear in life as the sun in the sky, she shined steady and true, and on my entire world she brought forth flowers, and the joy of warmth, and the promise of growth for the future.

Judie loved life. She loved to see her friends, to be with her pets, to read and read and read and read, to learn, to travel and explore, and to have coffee in the morning under a clear Arizona sky, each day cherished for the day it was and the promises it held.

Judie was a fighter. She understood the difference the good fight could make for her and the ones she loved, she had standards like equality, courtesy, fairness and she opposed oppression in all forms.

Judie was a mother. Her life’s greatest joy was her children. They meant everything to her and she poured her love and her wisdom and her will into them with the abandon of true passion, believing in them always, loving them to the core of her being, and always knowing their worth.

Judie was a worker. She always worked, had a strong work ethic, and she had an aptitude to bring order out of chaos and a love of numbers that, over time, and practice, she honed into being a magnificent bookkeeper and business owner.

Judie was a friend. She was a girl’s girl, a lady’s lady, with a quick sense of humor, a knack for a joke, and an unbridled hunger for a shopping trip with a friend and a margarita.

Judie believed in God. She only asked for strength and she saw that if the miseries and sadness’s of the world were in God’s hand then the beauties and blessings were too, and that her glass was always more than half full.

Judie was a gift.

Judie E. Talley-Dougherty

August 14, 1947 – March 23, 2012

By her husband Bill – March 27, 2012