Saturday, October 3, 2015
Dear Marlys Milne's Children & and Sister, Carol Stiles, and Family:
Your Mother was my closest and dearest foster sister. She and I were raised in the same Christian Foster Home with Pop, Joe & Mom, Hazel Gally. First Marlys needed a home, and then I came along and needed a home ten years later. Marlys and I bonded right away as sisters, and she took me under her wings and welcomed me to her family, her husband, Gorden Milne, and their 3 children Ken, Jane and Carol Ann around 1960. We both had in comon, being separated from our homes at an early age of 13 and 14 years. We had such a loving foster home and became Christians there, and we had a happy safe and loving environment and we both felt loved and wonderfully blessed. Marlys and Gordon were married when I first met them. Their children were Kenneth and Jane who were very young at that time. Then Bob and I were married in 1963 and Marlys was then 8 months pregnant with Carol Ann, youngest child. My biological mother was in the hospital with TB in Santa Rosa, so she couldn't be at our wedding. My twin brother, Herb Brown was there in his Army uniform to be present at our Wedding. Our foster father, Joe Gally couldn't be there because of a recent minor surgery. So, Gordon, Marlys' husband, offerred to walked me down the isle to my wonderful husband, Robert F. Sloat, son of Wilbur and Hazel Sloat members of our same church. Gordon was a professional photograher and He took all of our Wedding pictures and presented them to us after our honeymoon, a beautiful black and white pictures in a big beautiful White Weddinng Album with all matted 8 x 10's which we still treasure today of our 52 years of marriage.
Marlys and Gordon Milne lived in Santa Clara then and we lived in San Jose, CA at that time, and we lived only a couple a miles from eachother.
Bob's family and my family lived in Santa Rosa, CA. Bob and I feel that Gordon and Marlys were our mentors of what a good wife and a good husband should be like as we started our marriage. Bob and I feel their Christian home and our Foster Christian home made a huge impact on our Christian marriage.
We will be always grateful for our beloved sister, Marlys, and her beautiful Christian children, Ken, Jane and Carol Ann, and we send our deepest sorrow and sympathy for their great loss of their dearest Mother, Marlys Milne. Her great faith in the Lord was first in her life and as she approached her leaving this world to meet Jesus in Heaven, One of her and my favorite Bible verses is in St. John 14, where Jesus was promising the disciples that they would see Him again in Heaven after His death and "He
said, "Do not let your heart be troubled."Trust in God, trust also in Me. (2) In My Father's House are manu rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. (3)And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be with me that you also may be where I am.(4) You know the way to the place where I am going." (St John 14:1-4)
Our Love and Deepest Sympathy,
Uncle Bob and Aunt Ginger (Virginia) Sloat
