Dr. Roy Spencer sends sorrowful news. From The Huntsville Times Obituary Page.
Alice “Babs” Christy
Apr. 14, 1951 – Aug. 7, 2014 Alice Babbette “Babs” Christy stepped into eternity on Thursday afternoon, August 7, 2014. She began her life’s journey in St. Louis as the first child of Irwin and Alice Joslin on April 14, 1951. She leaves behind her devoted husband John, sister Ruth Ann (and Joshua) Wong, daughter Alison (and Garet) Fields, son Brian (and Kristen) Christy and the grandchildren she absolutely adored; Levi, Kara and Garison Fields, and John and Ruby Christy. Grandson Isaac Christy is now in her arms.
Her family moved from St. Louis to Peoria Illinois early in her life and she counted Peoria as her home until finishing college. An extremely bright young lady, Babs was Valedictorian of her senior class at Woodruff High School. After graduating with a degree in English Literature and American History from Illinois State University, she served in Kenya, East Africa, teaching at Nyeri Baptist High School. There she met her future husband and upon return they were married in 1975. Their lives were enriched as they experienced Mill Valley California, Vermillion South Dakota, Champaign Illinois but it was in Huntsville Alabama where they established their permanent home in 1987.
A passion throughout her entire life was Southern Baptist Missions. After her service in Kenya she was heavily involved in teaching and leading mission organizations everywhere she lived. She was a member of the boards of Christian Women’s Job Corps and the Alabama Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union. At Farley Community Church she taught several classes including Vacation Bible School and mission programs up through this past summer though plagued by the last stages of cancer. In other service roles she taught homebound students for the Huntsville City Schools and English as a Second Language for the Madison County Baptist Association. She also touched many lives through teaching in Weight Watchers and through the quilting guild. She is now free of the infirmities brought on by the cancer, but those who loved her, especially her husband, children and grandchildren are feeling the pain of an intensely wonderful part of their lives now lost.
Our grateful hearts acknowledge the many folks who helped and supported Babs and family through this ordeal. Visitation will be at Berryhill Funeral Home 5-8 p.m. Monday August 11th. On Tuesday, August 12th, a brief graveside service will be held at Maple Hill Cemetery at 9:30 a.m. An 11:00 a.m. memorial service at Farley Community Church will be officiated by Revs David Blakeney and Michael Hulsey. The family urges that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Christian Women’s Job Corps of Madison County.
Source: http://obits.al.com/obituaries/huntsville/obituary.aspx?n=alice-christy-babs&pid=172033085&fhid=10433
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Cancer sucks.
My condolences. I also lost someone to the big C just a few days ago.
So sad, but what a wonderful life!
My thoughts and prayers for family and friends.
I really really hate cancer.
Condolences.
My condolences to the families. Sounds like a wonderful life, she certainly left things a little better off when she left than they where when she arrived.
Kevin.
A life lived in service of others is a life well lived. She will resonate on through all the those she helped and loved. Rest in peace and condolences to her family
It sounds like she touched the hearts and enriched the lifes of many, what greater gift is there than that.
My sincerest condolences to her family and friends.
John, I am so sorry for your loss.
I am truly sorry for your loss Dr. Christy. Your wife sounds like she was a wonderful woman. I will pray for you and your family.
What a wonderful thought: “stepped into eternity.” May the family know that our hearts are with them.
My sincerest sympathy goes out to you and your family John. The older we get, the more cancer touches us. I hate it. I hope you and your family can find the strength to deal with this.
She obviously was one of those people who left earthly footprints behind filled with flowers. I can just imagine the benefit to heaven’s community now that she is there.
Sincere condolences to the Christy family. 😉
Imagine the gains in cancer research had CAGW not sucked the life out of funding.
Dr. Christy,
What we have now is just a token of what’s to come. (Ephesians 1:13,14)
That’s why, while we do sorrow, we don’t sorrow as those as those who don’t have the hope, the certainty that what God has said will happen will indeed happen. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18)
You will embrace her again.
But in the meantime, we carry on in hope. (2 Corinthians 4:14-18)
God Bless
You have my prayers.
I am in Huntsville to be with John during the memorial services. He is a great friend to all of us and I will convey the best wishes of anyone who asks–just leave a comment here.
Dr. Christy: I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I lost my sweet Mary almost 14 years ago after 48 years of happy marriage, so I know what you are going through. The cardiologist told me at the time that “Life must go on.” And it must. Although I still grieve for my lost lover, it gets better with time. God bless.
deepest condolences
That is too young, only a year younger than me. Sad to hear of the loss, but then for her there is no more pain, or medicines. She has her freedom in the spirit.
My condolences, Dr. Christy.
I am so sad for Dr. Christy, and for all of us who must face such stark realities, with no scientific proof there is anything more.
There actually is a subjective and unscientific proof there is something more. It is within the simple fact we sense an unreality, when faced with such things. We mutter inarticulate blurtings, such as, “I can’t believe time passed so fast,” and, “I can’t believe it is over.” We do it because we sense time is a variable, and eternity is realer.
My father’s parents decided to marry, to the amusement of their elders, when they were aged eight. They were still devoted to each other eighty-two years later, but then one had to leave the other. That is just the way it is, in this variable we call “time.”
A man who writes very well about this sort of stuff wrote a good book about this topic. Anyone inclined to think about how they will handle the death of the person they treasure above all others should read it. “A Severe Mercy.”
A woman laughs in heaven tonight,
a man sleeps alone
and weeps.
Our hearts (and prayers) go out to you, Dr. Christy.
“… a time to mourn… ”
(“One More Day” — Diamond Rio)
… and yet….
when you can,
remember this:
believers in Jeshua never truly say “good bye.”
If Babs had “one more line,” I feel certain it would be:
“See you later!”
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Take care, Code Tech.
Praying for you, too,
Janice
To Caleb’s fine book recommendation I would add the best book on grief I’ve read:
A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis
We are all somewhat like a family here, it hurts us all when there is a loss, my deepest condolences go out to you all.
God bless you in this time of sorrow.