Pamela Frank Stocker

It is with heaviest heart and emotional blur that I report on Pamela'd death in her sleep early morning of June 20.  A couple weeks before we celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary.  And what a wonderful marriage we had with rough times but more good times.  We shared a faith crisis as we disengaged from Worldwide Church of God, coming to a far deeper belief in what we really see in Scripture.  Then, there was the seven and one half years of our first born, Rachel's terminal illness.  She died at age 20 in 1991.  We buried her in a country cemetery near Billings, Montana overlooking the Yellowstone River.  We will be taking Pamela back there to lie next to Rachel.  And I will join them in due time.  Most times were wonderful with our other two daughters, Esther and Leslie, their husbands and now three grandchildren.  We were blessed with my 35 year career in leadership roles with Braille Institutte of America.  That gave Pamela opportunity to continue teaching music until she became full time care taker for our Rachel and later, my mother and her parents.  She served on the Ethics Committee of Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, CA for more than two decades.  One of her most impactful activites was her constant enouragement note writing to neighbors, church members and long time acquaintences.  She thoroughly appreciated the extensive international travels we were privileged to enjoy over the last twenty five years.  If there can be any good for today, it is she was able to slip away asleep in her own bed next to me with only the normal aging aches and pains, but not the terrible suffering so many really elderly people suffer.  I miss her so.  Les Stocker, June 24, 2025.

Posted on: Feb 19, 2016 at 1:34 AM