Theresa Mary Mangum, 96 passed on Sunday, January 29, 2012, at her residence in Moreno Valley, CA. She was born in New York on Monday, December 27, 1915; she was the daughter of Paul Tilli and Mary Comrad Tilli. Surviving are sons, Rodney Alan Butler of Riverside, CA and Lawrence Butler of Yorba Linda, CA., and 1 grand child.
Afterglow
I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I'd like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.
