Raymond Hinkle Memorial Page

Called Home December 12, 2014.  You will live forever in my heart.  Memories are little bits of heaven that God gives us to get us through the days until we are all together again.  You gave me so many wonderful memories to hold on to that there are no words to list them all.   I love and miss you so very much.

If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane
I would walk right up to heaven and bring you back again.
But God has better plans for you, you're flying high today
You're walking witht he angels with a smile upon your face
I could never be so selfish as to bring you back down here
I'll just cherish every memory and in my heart I'll hold you dear.
                                                                          last 4 lines by kwellman

This song was played at your funeral service.  I can just imagine you there talking with Daddy, Grandpa, Bill & Roger and all the others that have beat me home.  Save a seat for me at the dinner table...I'm coming....

Our last visit was bitter-sweet and I left Michigan with a heavy heart but with hope that it was not the last time I would see you and talk with you, but God had other plans.  I don't even begin to try to understand why he called you home, I just trust that he has a reason.  I wake up some mornings and my heart is just flooded with so many memories of you.  

I remember all the summers you came to West Virginia to visit and the joy that filled me every time you came.  I loved you so much.  You was so much more than my big brother, you was  the daddy that I didn't have.  I always cried when you left me and this time was so much worse.  I have shed many tears but with those tears came some comfort knowing that you were with our Lord and that the suffering was over.  

I will love you always and meet you again someday in heaven.