My mom left this earth on Wednesday February 24th, 2010 after a battle of cancer. I have lost my brother and now my mother. Yet I am at peace with this. Sure I miss my mother and my brother, but the knowledge that families can be together forever is comfort to me. My mother is a great mother.
I was in Great Falls Montana last year when my Mom and Dad called me and told me that her recent body scan showed her cancer was spreading all through out her liver and they had given her two months to live. My wife and kids were back in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and there I was in Great Falls, Montana. I left work, got in the car, and went and saw Transformers 2. I know, not the typical way to respond to the news, but I was all alone, and I didn't want to be. After the movie I got back in the car and drove about a mile. I pulled off the road and just started crying. My mother was dying. I must have sat there for a good thirty minutes. My uncle John just happened to be there on business, I wasn't alone. I called him and asked him if he would give me a blessing that evening. He came to the house and gave me a very nice blessing. Here I was feeling all alone, and Heavenly Father made sure I wasn't. Just to have my uncle there was comfort enough. Through this whole ordeal I have learned that we are never alone.
This will be my story of why, how, and I don't know. I do know that I am grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I know that God the Father lives and loves each of us. I know that I have a great wife, who loves me unconditionally. I have five, yes five, beautiful children who are very patient with me and love their mother as I love my mother. My dad, I do love you very much. I know you love and care for me, my family, and my siblings. I know that the passing of Deane and mom has and will not be easy. I have three great sisters whom I love and are grateful for. My brother-in-laws, Brad, Eric, Jason, and Steven, thank you all for being great. My brother Deane, I do love you and do forgive you. I am just sorry that I was not a better brother to you and that I wasn't there for you that dark and dreary night. My in-laws, I thank you for allowing me to marry your daughter and thank you for the great daughter you raised.
This is a thought book for me and my family. My mother was needed more on the other side than she was here. I know that she is still watching over each of us and will be through out all eternity.
Mom, I love you and I thank you...
Linda Maurene (Lamm) Blakeslee, born Feb. 14th 1948 in Boise, ID to Bill and Maurene Lamm, died Feb. 24th, 2010 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Linda spent five years in Henderson, NV, after which the family moved back to Eagle, ID. Linda attended public schools in Eagle and Meridian, graduating from Meridian High School in 1966 after which she attended Ricks College in Rexburg, ID. Linda met and married her sweetheart, Deane Blakeslee on Dec. 12th 1968 for all time and eternity in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. Together they have five children. During the course of her life, she has lived all over the United States. Two of her favorite places were the Gulf beaches in FL. and the Bahamas. Linda has been an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints her entire life and held many callings. She served valiantly in each. Linda is survived by her husband Deane, her children Heather (Eric), Tony (Sunnie), Mary Ann (Steven), and Megan (Jason), mother and father, Bill and Maurene Lamm, her brothers Rick, Rod, Jeff, and John, and her 14 grandchildren (with two on the way). Linda was preceded in death by her son W. Deane Blakeslee, her grandma and grandpa Marshall, and grandma and grandpa Lamm. Linda always put everyone else first. Anyone who met Linda loved her instantly. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m., Monday, March 1st, in the Boise 16th Ward LDS Chapel, 6711 Northview in Boise, ID. A viewing will be held at the church from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. preceding the services. The services are under the direction of Zeyer Funeral Chapel, Nampa. 467-7300
