The song playing is "Never An Absolution" from the movie Titanic. It is from the scene where Rose is being lowered into the life boat and is looking up at Jack as he cries. Michael specifically requested this song.

Three years have now passed since my dear cousin Brenda Kay's death. There has been so much happen since then. We have all had many more hardships in our life. I have experienced the death of the greatest Father ever on April 13, 2000. There have also been great times too, but we still think of Brenda and miss her so much.

Brenda is the type of person you cannot forget. Her laugh still lingers in my memory. She was one of a kind and we all took for granted that one day she would be gone. I regret not telling her how much I loved her. It also saddens me to think of all the hardships she went through. She went through way to much to have only been a 38 year old woman. But still she survived and didn't let it keep her down. Brenda's life can be an inspiration to us all. She could be down to no money at all, but yet she kept a smile. She could be in an unhappy situation, but would still laugh. She could be sick, and hide the pain inside so we wouldn't worry. She was alot more than any of us could have ever imagined. It's hard to put into to words what I want to say. I just think Brenda had alot more to offer us and I wish she had more time to do all things that I believe she wanted to do. However, I believe Brenda has went on to a more rewarding, wonderful, happy place and is looking down on us as our special gaurdian angel. I loved her so much and I still do.
I miss you, Brenda....
Love Always, Kim

The letter below contains the thought and feelings from Brenda Kay Dibble's only son, Michael Ray Dibble.

It is hard to believe that it's been three years since my Mom's passing, it feels like only yesterday I was riding with her in the ambulance to the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, TX. There I was 18 years old and scared of loosing my only loving Mother to a massive heart attack. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her. I think about how she made fudge, but it turned out taffy. I still ate it...believe it or not, it was better than regular fudge. My family get together's haven't been the same though like Christmas Eve: me, my Mom, and my Dad's friend Ricky waited for my cousins [James Landers- Shrevport, LA / Jeff Cunny- Arkansas along with Kenneth Hughes that lived here in Paris.] to come down and visit my Mom & me at our house to play spades, hearts, phase 10, dominoes, monopoly, scrabble, ten. It was fun, we begun playing at 6 or 7 pm and stayed up until 8am or more, sometimes we stopped and talked, or played Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo- which I still play to this day.

I'm now a married man, although I was saddened that my Mom wasn't alive to be there in person, I know she was looking down on me from heaven! I just wish that I had more photographs of my Mom, and a recent family photo of my Mom, Dad, and me before she passed away.

I didn't want to celebrate Christmas this year, because ever since my Mother passed away, I've been like in this shell so to speak. Until last week my wife Lottie Ann, began wanting me to decorate our new apartment over there at One Oak Apartments on Graham Street where me, my Mom, and my Dad had already lived on two different occassions. Me and my Mother always decorated our Christmas tree, with lights, decorations, and things I made at school. Now a days I work on holidays at Movies 8, a double shift, so I don't have to think about her not being here for the holidays. Until me and my wife Lottie gets pregnant and have a family of our own, I'll probably still shelter myself from enjoying Christmas. To be totally honest with you, Christmas isn't Christmas without my Mom, Uncle David (Bubba) not here, that's why now I don't celebrate it as much as I used too.

Micheal Ray's love for his Mom will always be in his heart, mind, body, and soul!!!

Love You Mom,
Michael Ray Dibble

P.S. I guess you can say Michael Ray is now the Grinch of Paris, TX.

Thanks, Cousin Kim Wise for helping put together this webpage for my Mother's memory!!

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