In Loving memory of Christine Hayes 6/10/1979 - 10/6/2006

Sue and I took our granddaughter Gracie to the Point Defiance Zoo on her birthday on a Friday in October. It was a day of healing for Sue and me and our Daughter in-law.  While we were having lunch we saw a friend that attends our church.  Susanne and her daughter had played volleyball together when they were in high school.  I brought it to Sue’s attention that, “Sue, there is Nancy.”  We didn’t see Nancy at the zoo again but the following Wednesday we saw her at church after our Bible Study.  When I told her that I had seen her at the zoo on Friday she became emotional.  She said she only saw one person she knew at the zoo and it was a lady she hadn’t seen in years but she used to work with her.  Nancy said her name is Kay, and Kay shared with her that she had just lost her 27 year old daughter in an auto accident in Seattle on September 28th, just two days after we lost Susanne.  I looked up the obituary that night and discovered that Christine Hayes was just four days older than our Susanne.  Christine lingered on life support in Harbor view until the following Friday which was the day we laid Susanne to rest.

Her mother shared with me that she was active in the youth group at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church in Gig Harbor, and she went on a mission trip to Mexico in High School and accepted Christ and was baptized.  It all makes sense now that the angels orchestrated this undeniable miracle to bring us together with Geary and Kay Hayes which we share this most intimate lifetime bond of eternal friendship through the ashurance that we will see our daughters again.

Christine used to live in West Seattle and we will never know if Susanne and Christine met here on earth, but we know that they are new best friends in Heaven especially since they were both dog lovers.

Don’t think of her as gone away, her journey’s just begun.  
Life holds so many facets, this eath is only one.  
Just think of her as resting from the sorrows and the tears,  
in a place of warmth and comfort where there are no days or years.
Think how she must be wishing that we could know today,  
how nothing but our sadness can really pass away And think of her as living in the hearts of those she touched. 
For nothing loved is ever lost and she was loved so much.

Submitted by Kay Hayes