In Loving Memory

BETTY JO (SICARD) STULTS

November 4, 1938 – April 13, 2012

If Tears Could Build a Stairway

If tears could build a stairway,

and memories a lane,

I would walk right up to Heaven

and bring you back again.

No farewell words were spoken,

No time to say “Goodbye”.

You were gone before I knew it,

and only God knows why.

My heart still aches with sadness,

and secret tears still flow.

What it meant to love you –

No one can ever know.

But now I know you want me

to mourn for you no more;

To remember all the happy times,

life still has much in store.

Since you’ll never be forgotten,

I pledge to you today –

A hollowed place within my heart

is where you’ll always stay.

We will miss you always.

Love,

Your daughters & son, grandkids and great-grandkids 

Heaven became brighter April 13, 2012 when our Heavenly Father called his beloved daughter, Betty Jo (Sicard) Stults, of Cedar Springs, age 73, home. She joins her parents, Roy and Mamie Sicard, her son, James, granddaughter, Emajean Rector, her brothers, Thomas, and R. David Sicard. Betty is survived by her children; Cynthia Batchelor, Cheryl and Gregory Fisk, June and Eugene Rector, Jr., Timothy Stults; 8 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren plus the anticipated arrival of a great-granddaughter; brothers and sisters, Sarah and Harry Joslin II, Rachel and Roger Klinge, Goldie and Elwyn Joslin; John Sicard, Sandra and Richard Thrasher, and Michael Sicard; nieces and nephews. The service for Betty will be Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at the Pederson Funeral Home with Pastor Jennings Johnson officiating. Interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Relatives and friends met with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Arrangements by Pederson Funeral Home, Rockford www.pedersonfuneralhome.com