My dearest mother, it’s been 6 long years since you were taken from me. Not a day goes by that I don’t talk about you and that I miss you. You are so loved and your legacy will continue. The kids miss you and we share stories often. I love you. I am going to see Tom soon and walk in your steps and get to know more about you where you went to college and I can’t wait! I love you always. 

Joel, Mandy and Family. I want to say what a spirited, warm, friendly, funny person Ginny was. 
I worked with her at Inter-Tel/Mitel in a division called CommSource. 
She was our Spectralink Goddess. She could pull in the sales every quarter like no other! Everyone thru the US for Inter-Tel branches and resellers alike worked with Ginny to sell Spectralink. 
She always made us laugh.
She always worked hard and was fun to be around. 

I have to share a day that really made us laugh. Ginny was in her cube and way across on the other side of the room another Co-worker came walking in for work...Gary Tribolt. Ginny said.."Hey Gar" ...he said yea..
Ginny said "did you get your haircut?" He replied yep. 
She said..."don't go there anymore"...we all laughed so hard. She of course was kidding with him. 
She always made time for whoever needed her help. She was a wonderful person. We were blessed to have known her! My thoughts and prayers are with you...very sad. We lost her way to early. Best Regards! Holly LyBarger

I knew you for so many years and always looked forward to our conversations. I could always count on your laugh to brighten my day. I am so sorry you left us way too soon but am so glad to have been able to call you friend. You will be missed by so many friends.

Joel & Mandy, my deepest sympathies to you and your family.  Ginny was a wonderful person through and through, she would do anything for anyone.  I miss working with her; I will remember hearing her laugh and seeing her smile, she was part of my work family away from home for many years. She will be greatly missed but rest assured she now sits with our Lord and Savior.  May God grant you peace and comfort: to get you through one day at a time until you meet with her again at Heavens Gates.  Rest in Peace Ginny. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you Joel & family. Mark & Pat Swenson Glendale, AZ

Ginny - 

To my 'favorite daughter-in-law" - remember how we always laughed when I said that cause you were my ONLY daughter-in-law . . . . that's why you were my favorite.

I will miss our talks about the little babies.  You asked me awhile back if I would write some stoires or songs for them.  I will certainly do that.

Recently I was thinking about you and Joel and how how proud I am of both of you being married for nearly 27 years.  So very proud of you!

I will always remember helping with the Thanksgiving dinner you cooked my first Thanksgiving in Phoenix (2002) - you showed me how to fix those little white onions to be served with our meal - somethng I had never done before.

M E M O R I E S!!

It won't be long - we will see you again.  Jesus is coming very soon and we will all be reunited together with Him FOREVER!  Until then Ginny, sweet memories, special memories of my 'favorite daughter-ini-law.'   

I love you!

Mom  xo  xo  xo

My Dear Ginny,

You have been so dear to my heart since we were both twelve years old.  I always felt so close to you even over the years that we did not see each other and even lost touch a few times.  I will always remember your smile and your wonderful laugh. I will always have great memories of our childhood and going to my first concert with you in the Bronx to see Jefferson Airplane. I loved just hanging out with you doing nothing special but just enjoying each others company.  I know where you are now and I don't know when I will get there but, I do know that I will see you again under joyous conditions. I love you, I always have, Karla

Joel and Mandy, our sympathies to you both and the grandkids for your loss. 

David & Lisa Durst

Dear Joel, my deepest sympathies to you and your family. Ginny was a wonderful, funny, loving and amazing woman. Always with a smile and kind word. I know you miss her dearly. My thoughts are with you. Sheila Carpenter, Chandler, Arizona

Rest our friend, your funny laugh, your spirit lives within Mandy, and the 3 grandchildren, Peace be with Joel, Mandy and grandkids.  Maria & Vern Suesse, AZ

That funny laugh - Rest our friend - Mandy, Joel and Mandy's children she was so happy to be a wife, mother and grandmother  Maria & Vern Suesse, Arizona

Dear Joel, Mandy and kids: let us first grieve the loss of your wife, mother, and grandmother, as well as our sister in Christ, for she was special to us all in a very unique way. But then, let us celebrate her new home with the Almighty Lord, knowing that all of us who are in Christ will see her again in the Heavenly place for eternity. God bless you as you go on forward in the times ahead.

I prayed to God and I cried out to Him, ~Why did this happen? Why did my beloved sister have to die? ~ She had so much in her heart to teach and share with others. Especially to give to her beautiful grand-babies. She had so much more to bless us all with. The beauty of Your nature..The changing of the seasons.. More time to look at our faces. To feel how deeply our love for her was... 

And God answered me and said.
~Your sister lives. Ginny lives ...instead of the wind she hears the sound of angels singing before My throne... instead of the beauty that passes she sees everlasting Beauty I created for her. Ginny sees My face. And she knows the totality of My Love~ 
~She was created in My image and love and even though she lived for what you know as a short time on this earth.. It was long enough so that the image of her family.. Her precious husband and daughter and her beloved Grandchildren was imprinted on her face.. She can now stand before Me as their personal intercessor~ .

And God then continued to say in love...~I will do great things with her.. She knows the secrets of heaven now..Unknown to mankind still on the earth... she laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess~

...and I knew that God will show us and my family that His ways are not the ways of man...that He created His Kingdom.. And each of His creatures fills a place in that Kingdom that could never be filled by another... Ginny was created for Gods joy... she no longer knows suffering or sin...she no longer feels hunger or pain...For in the beginning God breathed a soul into a seed and she was born ..She was given to us for a short time where He let her grow..

Then because she was His ..He called her back home...

Joel and Mandy, We grieve with you in your loss. In her passing we truly realize what a wonderful, loving person she was. Please know that our prayers are holding you up. We rejoice that she is with the Lord now in a much better place than here.

OBITUARY

Virginia 'Ginny' Donelson

August 16, 1955 – August 18, 2013

Life Event Center at Florida Memorial Gardens

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