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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My condolences. But I must say that it is unnecessary to die of cancer. Look up – biochemist Dennis Hill cancer – there is a LOT about how he cured his last stage cancer on the www
http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/biochemist-who-cured-his-stage-4-prostate-cancer-with-cannabis-oil-explains-how-it-works/
The key is that the body’s natural endocannabinoids cause cancer cell apoptosis. If you are deficient you just grow some.
Well done, good and faithful servant.
Peace.
We are rarely remembered by ‘what we died of’ and frequently remembered for how we lived. Let us therefore focus on an admirable life devoted to the welfare and upliftment of others.
The human world is held aloft from its animal nature by the embodied virtues that define us as ‘human’. One manifestation of the human capacity for virtue is selflessness, a willingness to reach out even as others recoil. The fact that those doctors and other healthcare workers falling to Ebola are often working in a selfless capacity, inspired by the sacred, shows the noble heights which we can achieve.
Dr Christy, you and your family are an inspiration on multiple levels. Thank you.
Condolences for your loss; celebrations for her gain in Christ!
thoughts and prayers.
My sincere condolences to the Christy family and their community of friends. It sounds like Mrs. Christy added grace to the world through her actions her entire life. As we say in our family, sometimes “God chooses to re-deploy his best souls to other places they are needed, on His schedule, not ours.” Godspeed, ‘Babs’.
Thank you Anthony for letting us know.
Sent a private email to John.
Best, Allan.
Feeling for you at this time.
My sincere condolences to Dr.Christy and his Family.
I am sorry for your loss.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength and love your neighbour as yourself.
She did both and was and will be richly blessed.
James Bull
Wow, what a great life! Well lived and a devotion to service, a great example of how to contribute to fellow human beings. If a great lady like this choose you for a husband Dr. Christy then you are even a more amazing man than I had estimated. May God give your family the strength to carry on his work.
Seems like we lose the best ones too soon.
My prayers for you, John.
Our prayers for you, for her life, for your family in these times.
Stay true.
Surely, the Christy family has been privileged and honored with the love of Alice “Babs” Christy (Joslin). Now, they may joyfully benefit by their lifelong remembrances of her. .
Condolences to Dr. Christy and family.
My greatest sympathies. Her illness touches very close to home. May God hold her in his love forever.
You and yours will be in my thoughts, Dr. Christy. She led a beautiful life, a testament not only to her own sterling character, but to those whom shared in her life, as well. I wish you peace and strength.
I must stay true to what I know is true. She has moved on, and become far greater. That should be celebrated, not mourned. We humans are saddened when someone is no longer among us. We should cast off our possessiveness and jealousy and be joyous when one of us becomes far more than those left behind.
Thus, Dr. Christy, I am not sorry for your loss. And I wish you the best during the long wait until you are rewarded and reunited. Stay strong.
My wife passed away 6 years ago, so I understand. May your faith keep your family strong during these times. Prayers go out to the Christy family.
What a terrible loss. My thoughts are with John and his family.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Psalm 116:15
My deepest condolences to Dr. Christy and his family.
My sincere condolences to the Christy family.
Dr. Christy,
May the Lord be with you and lighten your heavy heart.
so sorry to hear this sad news