MOM PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT THE AGE OF 84 WITH FAMILY BY HER SIDE. SHE LIVED AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. MOM COULD LIGHT UP A ROOM. MAKE YOU LAUGH. TOUCH YOUR HEART. KEEP YOU SAFE. SHE CARRIED OUR JOYS AND PAIN IN HER HEART. SHE WAS OUR FAMILY. SHE WAS OUR ANGEL. MOM TRAVELED THE WORLD. ENJOYED THE BEST PLEASURES OF LIFE. BUT NO PLEASURE WAS GREATER TO HER THAN THAT FROM HER HUSBAND, NAT. HE WAS HER EVERYTHING, HER LOVE, HER LIFE. MOM’S PASSION FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS HAD NO BOUNDARIES. HER CARING NO LIMITS. SHE KNEW POVERTY. SHE KNEW SADNESS AND DISPAIR. SHE WOULD SEE A YOUNG MOTHER WITH CHILD AND REMEMBER. MOM BELIEVED NO ONE SHOULD FEEL ALONE. A HAND SHOULD BE HELD. EACH STRANGER A NEW FRIEND. HER TIMELESS BEAUTY AND SMILE WILL ALWAYS BE REMBERED. OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN, BUT FILLED WITH MEMORIES. SHE IS WITH DAD. SHE IS SMILING. MOM IS SURVIVED BY HER CHILDREN DEBRA AND FRED RALEIGH, JULIE AND KENT GIKAS, AND HER STEPDAUGHTER DEVON BROWN, HER GRANDSON EVAN GIKAS (GRAMMIE’S BOY), AND HER SISTER MARY LOU WATTS. SHE IS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND NAT, AND HER GRANDSONS CHRISTOPHER GIKAS AND DOUGLAS HAFF BROWN. TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE HER, WE LEAVE MOM IN YOUR LOVING CARE. MOM REQUESTED THAT THERE BE NO FUNERAL SERVICE. A CELEBRATION OF LIFE WILL BE HELD MARCH 1, 2018, AT 4 PM AT THE STOCKTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS MAY BE MADE IN THE NAME OF BERT BROWN TO THE ASSISTANCE LEAGUE’S OPERATION SCHOOL BELL, CHILDREN’S HOME OF STOCKTON, OR A CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
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