Billie Carolyn Christensen

Mom’s passing on the 26th was quite sudden, but she was at home (as she desired to be, without Hospice or any outside interventions or preventions, with no drugs administered to push her on before her true time). She was exactly where she wanted to be and went exactly as she asked to go. She was with some of her family and she was all about His peace! There was music in the form of gentle humming. She was in the same room as her husband Chris had been when he passed many years earlier and that was exactly as she wanted. For a few weeks prior to Moms passing she kept asking about her daddy’s house, asking where it was again and again and telling us she wanted to go there. We really most times thought she was talking about heaven, but she wasn’t. We finally realized she was actually referring to her natural father’s home she grew up in, not her heavenly Fathers House up yonder! In the beginning we kept giving her the wrong address as she would soon make it very clear to everyone. A little more time had passed and she began talking about getting the address again, so we began the search and finally located a physical address that apparently was exactly right. We read it out to her and within about a minute maybe 2, mom let out a loud but slight gasp (Holy Spirit) and within a very short time after that, the rest of her passed. That was it, just like that. It happened very quickly and caught us all off guard at the “how, when and why” of how fast it happened and after obtaining that address was all that was holding her back. We had no idea. Once obtained, she was off and running (flying) to try and stop by there on her way to her eternal home! It was crazy, but that was mom, that was all done her way. In our families time caring for mom, we had several occasions to talk about many things, times and people. She loved her years at Seacoast and all the friends she had made there, many acquaintances, some friends and several dear dear friends! She was not, however, fond of what the Seacoast Institution had become over the last several years

. Once, we had tried to show them the brown water we collected out of our kitchen faucet and the “head Indian” Wren, wouldn’t even come out and greet her, but she loved that man anyway and still prayed he’d find him some Jesus. Times had changed there and she was unprepared… but to all of you at Seacoast; past and present (and you know who you are) mom absolutely loved you and always spoke highly of each of you, never having a cross word to say except for her own inability at not being able to “not say anything that would get her into more trouble”. Well, she got in more trouble frequently, but for mom it was all part of her own learning curve. She couldn’t have done it any other way. It just wasn’t in her for that! She loved her time with you there, please know that! To her “church families” over the years (there were a few); she loved all of you for various reasons. Every church community fulfilled something in her she didn’t realize was either missing, needed or wanted! She just adored the “atmosphere” of the fellowship and the frequent intimacies of the many friendships she was able to make along the way. She never met a stranger she didn’t like and one she wouldn’t tell about Jesus to AND then having to tell Jesus about the one she just met and to make sure that HE brought them into the bigger family picture and that they would have their eternal home waiting for them. Making sure one way or another that - that person was going to heaven! Mom was never shy on that, never ever - ever! Mom loved all the church activities and all the people she had met throughout the years. In the later years she loved helping each of the Pastors by making their Sermon notes and passing them out to those that wanted them during the week, until the following Sundays sermon and then she’d do it all over again. She loved the Bible Studies and those that she met at each one. She had lots of friends all over the place. She began her early years of church as a Sunday School Teacher, teaching us little tikes about Jesus and she went out the way she had come in, only now teaching the bigger full grown ones! But as time passed and the “church institution” changed, mom suffered the losses of many of her friends preceding her and was only able to keep in touch with but a few towards the end, but they also were faithful and true to the end, coming by the house regularly to see their dear friend. Moms main goal in her life was to make sure everyone she met KNEW - Jesus and made sure that He was their Savior, and that He was going to be their eternal home. There was no other way for her and nothing was more important. To the Face Book family mom tried to keep up with; our entire family expresses many thanks for all the thoughts and prayers, during this time, they were received and greatly appreciated. You are a massive extended family! On to mom getting out of Florida for a bit; she rarely left the state of Florida for a reason, the cold. She hated it, plain and simple. She had ZERO desire to be cold or to be anywhere where it got cold! She rarely went on vacations and if she did, she was taken there complaining the whole way, as was her custom! I did however get her to Washington DC once where she wanted to finally able see her Nations Capital. She was a bit let down as to its emptiness and we weren’t able to go into many of the public buildings but she was totally wowed at the shear size of the structures and statutes. She loved the Commemorating Walls of the Fallen Soldiers and the Memorials to all the War Veterans as her older half brother Raymond was a War Veteran and her first and second Husbands (Don and Chris respectively, were Veterans). She loved the way the Men and Women were honored. She was just awe struck by the size of the National Cemetery (she kept shaking her head in a sad amazement) and she saw some of JFK’s Cemetery site (as it was under some renovations they said). We made a few other stops along the way, some silly little places and some beach scenes she wasn’t so thrilled to see since she despised the ocean water! But she got out of Florida and it helped prepare her for her next big adventure… off to meet the Tennessee clans! She wasn’t sure who all the rest of everyone was that she got to meet, but all the peoples in Tennessee and northward just amazed her! WOW was all she could say as she smiled from ear to ear! As many of you know Billie had a pretty large family all the way around. Some lived here in Florida, Alabama, Indiana, South Carolina and then the majority living all across Tennessee. When Mom finally had the opportunity to meet all of Tennessee clan within a few summer months of 2024 she absolutely loved that adventure meeting all the little new faces! She recalled how beautiful those little faces were and that there were so many! She struggled however and then finally gave up trying to remember the names, but boy was she PROUD!! Regardless that she got overwhelmed; then amazed, then excited, and then super boastful and then even more proud she had so many children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and then even some great greats I believe. She couldn’t stress enough that heaven had better have a lot of bedrooms and bathrooms bc they weren’t using hers! It was hysterical listening to it all this and her recalling all she had just witnessed. Mom had a chance to go do a little traveling while being introduced to her Tennessee and Indiana clans and she enjoyed that as much as she did actually meeting everyone! She had no idea that little part of the world was so big, that it held so much love and that she had never seen such places. Mom had a well loved, well lived life (as SHE wanted) and a very full life, truly she did. She loved deeply. She hurt deeply. She lost deeply. But she stayed in the good fight loving her way out of the pain, out the other side into His Glory, where I know she heard those words we all aspire to hear; Well done My Good and Faithful Servant! I know she heard these words bc Heavenly Father was so well pleased with His Son and Mom was certainly within Him; as He was in her. She ascended on high as His Son did and into His Glory! Mom wanted for nothing except that everyone she met and knew, met her Jesus and that they would always have an eternal home so she could see them again there. So if your one of those who don’t have an eternal home, ask Jesus today to make His home YOUR home, so you’ll see mom again there… bc she’ll be waiting for us all to get there. With much love… and a bit of sass I’m sure! Mom is survived by her 5 Sons and Daughters and their respective families. So everyone will know; Mom did not want a service. Every question I asked her replies were: Not particularly. No not really. Now why would i want that? Trisha I won’t be here, I don’t want anything! So this should answer any questions regarding “why.”