Tamara Woodrome Obituary

Grandma just thinking of and missing you.

Oh mom, it never gets any easier to be without my parents. One day I will be reunited with you. You would be proud of all the kids. They are all doing well. Don is in management for the County, Jeremy runs his dad´s business in Iowa, Tera has a thriving home daycare business, Chantel is in management in her company, Cheyenne Village, and Nicole is teaching first grade. The grands are doing great....we have so many now! And great grands! I´m retired, but keep busy with my littles. And guess what? Putting a brick on their heads still doesn´t work to keep them small! Love you mom, see you again one day!

Grandma,

Well it has been a long time since i wrote an entry here. Things have changed a lot in my life, I was diagnosed with a tumor in my right shoulder last year and have been handling it well. Grandpa floyd isnt doing so good these days. He has been in intensive care and accute care hospitals for about 8 weeks now and poor mom, she is run ragged but she keeps tracking along like a real trooper. She is the strongest lady I know, as she has so much on her platte and so little help. The flowers are starting to bloom and tree's budding, a new beginning has yet again arrived and Im verymuch ready for the warm weather. This is my last entry into this book....please always know we all love you and keep a watchful eye on our family. Help guide our mother the way you would if you were here touching her hand today. Help give her strength and hope.

I love you Grandma,
So'long till we one day meet again.

Hi Mom,
Its been awhile, but even though, you are always in my thoughts. We went out to the cemetary on Mother's Day, and by Memorial Day your name had been added to Grandpa's Headstone. It looks real nice.
I have had a hard summer, Dad isn't doing so good, and I had surgery on my arm in June, so it has been difficult at best. Wish you were here to give me a hug. Somedays I need one. I love you.
Darlia

Grandma,
I love you.
Miss you.

My Beloved Mom,
I miss you more every day. It seems as though I need to talk to you so often. Lol, I need to write an ad for help wanted to put in the newspaper, boy could I use your help. You were always so good at writing things like that. I hope you realize how much you impacted our lives. You were such a special grandmother, and Mother. I will always love you. This book may be done now, but my love and thoughts are always with you. I Love You.
Bye Mom,
Dar

Grandma,
Just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you and I miss you.

Not taking dinner to you on Easter was weird.

Love you.

Grandma,
Yesterday Mom and I went and decorated your gravesite with flowers. We stopped at Jason's, too. Today I had the worst day ever and mom was really there for me. She is my best friend. I can only imagine how it is to lose that. I know we all miss you and you are constantly in our hearts. I love you.

Grandma,

Wow it has been a year since we said our final farewells to you. Time goes so fast, although it still seems like it was yesterday. I hope you are resting well and keeping an eye over all of us. Tj is having a hard time this year, with his recent loss and dealing with your death on his birthday, it isnt a very happy time for him. He and I think of you often and we miss you everyday. Please keep all of our family safe grandma.

I love you
Tera

Grandma,
Like Mom, I can't believe it has been a year. It still feels like it was yesterday.
You really did impact all of us, Mom was right. We miss you more and more each day...and it will forever be hard to drive on Union without thinking of you. I remember how much you loved getting BJ's ice cream when we'd bring you a small cup of vanilla. There's so much I remember about you, and so much that I miss.
I wish we could all just go back and spend one more day with you. I am glad that you aren't hurting anymore either, but it doesn't make our loss any easier.
I hope you're keeping watch over all of us.

We miss and love you very much.
Love,
Nicole

Hi Mom! It has been a year since we lost you, I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was so sad to see you slip away from me, but so very relieved you were no longer suffering. I still feel lonely without you, I still have your phone number in my cell phone, sometimes I dial it just to be sure this is not a nightmare. Such an empty feeling to lose someone you love. I am going to lose my dad soon,too, I am afraid. What must it feel like to have no parents anymore here on earth with you??? I am luckier than some, though, because I have wonderful children and grandchildren. I am not alone....
All the family is good, TJ lost his dad on the 17th., we are sorry for him and keep him in our prayers. Nicole is nearly finished with her first year of college, and seems like she is ready for a break. Chantel is starting a new job as a CNA this next week. You would be proud of her. We all speak of you and little things that all the kids remember about you, you had a huge impact on all my kids lives, you were a wonderful grandmother, mom.
I have your name being engraved on your precious daddy's headstone, that is the final step to your resting place. I hope I have made you proud, I tried my best.
We have been putting pictures on this sight of all the people who loved you.
I love you mom, please keep watching over all of us.
Dar

Grandma-Just thinking of you. I love and miss you.

Grandma,
Mom and I were talking about you yesterday, and I thought I'd take the time to write a little bit. I told her how whenever I miss you, I think about how I had just a few minutes alone with you on the day that you died. Mom and I were the last ones to actually talk to, and that means so much to me! Everyday I do the crossword and when I get stumped I think about how I used to be able call you and you'd know the answer! Know that you are remembered and loved in everybody's hearts. Thank you for taking care of all of us-especially Nicole and Tera.

Hi Grandma I was just reading Nics latest entry in the guestbook and thought Id write a few lines. Things have not been too good for me the past few weeks but Im making it through....I had two car accidents in 4 days, My friend and I truly should have been hurt badly in the first one but I decided you were watching over and protecting me like my guardian angel...the second was a deer in the side of my car and tossed me into the ditch.....I sat on the side of the road and cried for an hour before calling for help, I felt so helpless. When the first one happened I got home that morning and ever since that accident the lamp on TJ's side of the bed is on every time I go to bed.....is that you Grandma?? Are you really watching over me and keeping me safe??? Someone up there sure is letting me know Im not alone!!! I love you and Miss you so much. TJ comes home next Tuesday for 2 weeks, Our 15th anniversary is the 14th, can you believe we have been married that long??? WOW time flies...Nic is flying out to spend time with he and I while he is home...it will be nice to have her here.
I hope you are happy up there grandma and please know we love you and miss you!! Keep watching over us Grandma please.

Grandma,

I can't believe that in a little over a month, it will be a year since you left us.

That day will be so hard for us all. I remember feeling so bad because I had been awake all night, just being with Mom for you. I fell asleep for not very long and woke up and you were gone.

I felt so bad but then I remembered hearing that sometimes people want to go alone, that they wait for people to leave so they don't have to hurt the people they love.

I felt numb and sometimes random things will pop up and remind me of you. It makes me miss you so much more.

We're all doing good, for the most part. There's always troubles but that is life. We miss you and love you.

I know you're smiling down on us and that makes it all better. The only thing that could be better would be having you here.

I hope you like it up there.

I love you,
Nicole

Merry Christmas, Mom!!
Christmas Eve was lonely for us, the girls and I always spent it with you. This year has been full of firsts, this Christmas without you, was hard.
I am waiting for the girls to get up so we can open gifts. They are all grown up, and we don't have that excited, get up early for the gifts.
We will go to Don and Tracy's for dinner, the usual. The little girls didn't get to get here in time for today. They will be here next week, and we are all looking forward to seeing them. Tj is still in Iraq, so Tera is without him this morning. All our lives seem to be moving in different directions lately.
I miss you Mom, and wish you were here so I could tell you just one more time.
Merry Christmas!!!
Darlia

Grandma,
It's still really hard for me to drive by your old room, because I always look for your gold lamp shade. Silly, I know because it's obviously not there but it's just a habit. I miss you so much, and as I'm helping my friend deal with his loss, it has really opened my eyes. We should never take one minute for granted. I just remember seeing you for the last time, and being with Mom in your last few hours was really important to me. She misses you, you know, we all do.

I think I heard Mom tell Ashley a few weeks ago that we'd have to put a brick on her head to keep her from growing up, and I smiled as I could hear you say the same thing to me so many times.

But I'm all grown up Grandma. I'm here in college and doing well, but I miss home sometimes.

Well, I hope things are better up there. I miss you and I love you very much.

Love,
Nicole

Grandma oh Grandma...Happy Thanksgiving!! I cooked yesterday for my friends, several who have nobody and it made me feel good to do it, I know I should have been with family, but I thought it was important to do for others and I know you would be proud of me for that. TJ is doing great with his job in Iraq, he misses home, we miss him!! He came home in October and we went to Hawaii again, did you ever get to go there? Gee questions I wish I had asked you when you were here with us, Maybe my Mom knows? We had a great time as usual. Today is considered black Friday, You know shopping day....well my friend Bobbi and I went together and did a lot of shopping, Im mostly done....saw the white diamonds perfume and remember running to the department store last year with chantel and getting that for you for Christmas from Mom, wasnt long after that we were cleaning your room out and found that new bottle of perfume, you hadnt felt well enough to get to use it...I guess im just teary eyed today, I thought about you a lot the last few days, I sure miss you, I know I didnt get to see you alot the last few years, but just knowing you were always there when I came home for a visit, just to know I could come see you, sit and visit with you, those were important things to me, just to know my grandma was there. I still think about the last time I touched your hand at the memorial service at the funeral home. Mom and all her kids, we were all in the room with your body, all of us standing around your casket, looking over you....all of us were crying, it really did something to me to see my oldest brother crying as he was. I believe Chantel said that moment in our time was the most surreal moment we have experienced, she was right, I remember reaching down and touching your hand then brushing your face and telling you I love you one more time. I love you and miss you...that moment in time with live with me forever.

Hi Mom, its me. It is the night before Thanksgiving, and I am sitting here, thinking how we always brought you your dinner to the nursing home. This year I will miss you so much. I have been Christmas shopping, I feel strange to not be looking for your new caftan.
Chan and I visited your grave on your birthday. Did you hear me talk to you??
Debby has a beautiful new baby boy. He is gorgeous. She and the family seem so happy. I know you would be happy for her.
All the kids are doing good, please help keep our family safe. I Love You, Mom.
Darlia

Mom, I am sitting here, thinking how much I wish you were here to talk to. My evenings are long since Nic left for college. She likes Fort Collins, wish you could hear how excited she is about her dorm room and classes. She is already making friends.

I quit looking at your window at the nursing home, I know the curtains are pulled and you are not there, reading. How strange it seems, still.

Everyone else here is ok, TJ is still in Iraq, and will be home for a few weeks in October. We pray for his safety. Mom, I hope you knew how much I loved you. I miss you so much.

Grandma,

It has been just over 2 months since you have been gone from us. I think of you all the time and miss you more everyday. TJ and I drove by the nursing home the other day and I looked for that gold lampshade....how funny the things we associate with certain people in our lives. We buried your ashes Friday, it was a beautiful day for us to do that. After we had your services we placed flowers on your mothers grave then over to baby Jason's grave to do the same. Im so glad that we were able to do as you wished, rest peacefully now Grandmama everything you asked of us has now been done. We love you and miss you!!

My Sweet Mom,

Ok, Mom, it did not work, putting that book on the girls heads so they couldn't grow up!! Nicole is all grown up and graduated from high school this week. I wish you could have shared the excitement this week. All my kids were here for her, I am so proud of them and their spouses. Even TJ made it from Iraq. And now, Mom, we have placed your ashes with your precious Daddy, so you are truly where you wanted the shell of your body in the end. I know you are in complete rest, now. I love you, Mom, keep watching down on us, and keep all my family as safe as you can. We all think of you daily.

Darlia

Mom,

This is my first Mother's Day without you. I miss you so much. I had breakfast with the girls, and then we went and bought plants to put out in the yard. I bought some of your favorites, the marigolds, and begonias. I remember how you always liked those. Then I took a ride out and tried to find where the ranch was, I can't find it. I wish I had asked you what road it was on. I know Peyton Highway, but I can't find the other one. It made me sad. There are so many things I wish I had said and asked you. You never realize all the stuff you need to know until it is too late. I love you Mom, and I miss you like it was the first day you left us. I hope you are resting peacefully now.

Your loving daughter,

Darlia

Grandma,

I will always love you. I'm glad to know you aren't sick anymore, you were sick for so long. I will never forget when you told me you weren't scared to die. I'll never forget you.

Mom, You have been gone nearly a month now, it isn't any easier. I miss you everyday. I reach for the phone to call you, and I ALWAYS look for the gold lampshade in your window, it isn't there...

I made it through Easter, I didn't have anyone to buy an Easter Lilly for, I don't know what to do on Mother's Day. I miss you so much, and I feel so lonely for you. I know you are so much better off now, but I still miss you. I love you, Mom.

Grandma,

you will be in our hearts and memories forever. You were truly an inspiration to everyone you met. I will always remember showing you how to open a bag of potato chips or how to flatten a pop can under your car tire. We always looked forward to bringing you fresh veggies from our garden we know how much you enjoyed them! Thanks for being such a beautiful person.

If anyone hasn't checked out the photo gallery, I've posted a couple of pictures. Enjoy! Debbie H. (Tammy's niece in AR)

Grandma I miss you everyday and think of you often. I hope you have a glorious Easter in Heaven with Our Lord. We all love and miss you !!

Darlia & family,

In the journey of life death is but a passage into the glory of eternity,

Though it saddens us who believe in the promise of JESUS CHRIST. For to accept the resurrection is to understand that death is only the Last Step on our journey to eternal life, may our gracious Lord, Who has given our loved one Tamara Simmons Woodrome a joyous welcome in heaven,

send His loving,comforting Spirit to console you until you're reunited.

I love each one of this family.

Darlea,

Find comfort in knowing that you were so important to your mother. I know she knew you were with her until the end. She was so proud of you and your children.

Grandma I love and miss you!

Grandma,

I will miss you so much.I wish I could have been there for your funeral.I love you lots rest in peace. Love,

Trisha Dawn

I've only had the privilege and pleasure to know Aunt Tammy over the past 13 years. I've missed out on so much time, but I've been so blessed!! Aunt Tammy was a fun-loving, free-spirited and intelligent woman. She took the time to share her "soak-love" with me and my girls, shared memories of my mother (Sharon) and helped me to feel like family ;o). I love her and miss her MUCH. I know she's in heaven singing, loving and taking care of my little angel Tiffany and Dar's little angel Jason. God has truly blessed us all! All my love, Debbie

We will miss our Aunt very much. She was a wonderful woman who gave so much to us.

Grandma I was just sitting here this morning all alone and my mind drifted to you. I love you and miss you. Life seems so empty right now, just knowing that there is a void there....I carry you in my heart and thats where I will keep you. :)

Grandma, I will never forget how happy my goodnight phone calls made you. Your face lit up whenever you talked about them and how I could never go to sleep unless I called and said goodnight to you. I'll never forget the gold lampshade in your window. Rest in peace, and we will always miss you.



p.s. Thanks for all the homework help you always gave me!

Great Grandma Tami you were a very nice Grandma and Im sorry I didnt get to see you one more time. I love you and am going to miss you lots. Love Alicia

She will be miss.You are in are in my prayers

When I gazed upon your body, and your life had gone out of it, I realized that our beauty truly comes from within, from our spirit. You are a beautiful spirit, and I hope you are playing with other beautiful spirits in paradise. In the mean time you are missed by beautiful spirits here, many of whom you helped bring into this world. Thanks for giving birth to Darlia, so she could give birth to Chantel. She is one of the most beautiful sprits in my life.



Rest in peace,

Love Elizabeth

Grandma I remember a lot of things about you, but mostly how much you liked to read. Also when you lived in the apartment and how I would spend the night there. I miss you everyday.

I remember the smile on my wife's face as she worked on crossword puzzle's with you over the phone late nights. We love you and you will be missed.

Grandma I want you to know how very much your family loved you!! We will miss you deeply....I know you are resting peacefully in a much better beautiful place now...my heart is filled with sorrow but with many many wonderful memories that I will forever treasure in my heart. I love you Grandma and know that we will meet again someday (get brushed up on those crossword puzzle skills)!!

Love you and miss you.

Grandma we will miss you very much.

I Love You, Mom. You rest peacefully now.

rest in peace tammi. God bless.