Did you know Elizabeth well? Perhaps you met her just once — or you worked with her on a lifelong cause. Celebrate Elizabeth’s life by sharing your story with her family and friends. Add your message as a comment below.
I never met Elizabeth Edwards but always followed her life struggles and how well she dealt with all the tragedies that come forth her. She was definetely a strong women. I hope she rests in peace, she deserves that from what she has endured in her life. I have lost many family members in my life to many different illnesses that I was extremely close to. I lost my maternal grandmother to lung cancer, my maternal grandfather to a heart condition he suffered with for 11 years, lost my paternal grandmother to many horrible strokes, lost my paternal grandfather to a massive heart attack and lost my uncle (my dad’s brother and my god-father) to a brain ayerisum. It is very hard to see them suffer and to see them go from suffering but they are now all at peace. Elizabeth has taught me to stay strong for many reasons. I have a daughter who is almost 14 and going into high school next year. She has suffered from AHDD since the age of six. We tried many medications for this and all of them made her extremely sick so we are using just tough love. Let me tell you it is very hard and I have many emotinal times but I find the grace of GOD to get me through/my faith in him as well. She has always struggled in school and as much as any mom would say or feel the same way I do, throwing in the towel is not an option, having faith is what helps me through my struggles. ELizabeth taught me to keep going an dto never give up and I thank her family for allowing me to share today! GOD BLESS your family and my thoughts/prayers are with you during this time!
A graceful and strong soul that I feel is in the Throneroom of God. Her pain has ended. Elizabeth was an inspiration of strength to all people.
My greatest fear is to leave this earth while my child is still young. This also had to be her fear. I pray her children are taken care of and loved.
I didn’t know Mrs. Edwards on a personal level, but her strength and warm spirit came across over the television and touched alot of people including myself. Thank you. RIP
I have watched in great sadness to loss of a great lady. I was diagnosed with breast cancer about the same time Elizabeth was. I was very lucky it was caught early and I will live for many years to come. Elizabeth was an inspiration to me as I went thought the treatments. My son was friends with Wade when he was in elementary school. He has fond memories of going to play at Wade’s house and John coming home to play basketball with them then ordering pizza. I have great sympathy for the children and the family. My thoughts and prayers are with them. I know in my heart she is at peace now.
Psalm 23 – A psalm of David
“The lord is my shepher, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anount my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord – forever.
May you rest in peace, Elizabeth, and know your presence on this earth will always be a reminder that kindness, courage, hope and conviction of faith can inspire us to live our lives with authenticity and grace.
I admired your Mom so much when she was supporting help for the poor and for medical care for all of us. Truly a wonderful, admired woman. I know the pain of losing chilren. Four of my five boys died, when adults, and within 3 yrs of each other. I know she is with Wade and suffering is over for her. My sympathy to her children and friends and will remember her always.
I have followed Elizabeth’s story, I have read her books. She was one of the bravest, strongest and spiritual people! I am so sorry her family must move forward without her, though they will gather strength from her through all she did and legacy left behind. She is now at peace with Wade.
We are truly sorry for her loss. We personaly met her during the Edwards campaign trail, she is a remarkable woman, I thank her and her family for getting the word out regarding our corrupted health care system in the United States. We lost our daughter Nataline Sarkisyan at 17 back in 2007. We The Sarkisyan family will continue our fight for better health care in the US in Nataline’s name for no more denial. “I know my daughter will not come back but I know in my heart I can make a better change in this country”. Hilda Sarkisyan
I am a 2-time cancer survivor and my heart goes out to all of you. Your mother was a wonderful, caring, thoughtful, forgiving woman and you have all been blessed to have had her in your life. Sadly she was taken from you all too soon, and although none of us knows the answers as to why things like this happen, I hope you all take some comfort in knowing that she is with Wade now and that they are both smiling down on you and shall watch you and all your accomplishments throughout your lives. I wish I had the words to comfort you, but I don’t as I have suffered the loss of both my parents to cancer. Mom died at the age of 56, also way too young. Please take comfort in the love that you all share and when you think of your mother, think of her with a smile on your faces and great love in your heart. She will never be forgotten as so many of us watched her fight her fight with the greatest grace. She was a very special lady.
I will never forget my first interaction with Mrs. Edwards on the 08 campaign. As I reached my hand out to introduce myself, she said without skipping a beat “Good afternoon, Berry Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep Eagle”! An exact impersonation of my high school summer job as a receptionist at a car dealership. She even had the up-note for “Eagle”. It was moments like that–plus the time we compared our favorite purchases from Target–that made her so REAL to everyone who met her. Thinking of all my former colleagues during this time. Love to you all!
May Elizabeth rest in peace and may God assure her that her children will be in good hands. I did not know Elizabeth but look up to her for her strong will. Not worring about her self but worring about her children in the face of her death, she was a remarkable women with so much love for her family.
We are sending our condolences to the family and friends of Elizabeth Edwards. She touched many people through her strength, nurturing ways, and selfless giving. She is surely at peace with a loving God and her son who had passed at too young an age. May God bless you all with inner peace and healing from your personal loss of a beloved mother, advocate, and special friend. I lost my mother to breast cancer, my husband to colon cancer (after he fought an eight year battle), and I am a breast cancer survivor since my diagnosis in 1999. I know the terrible effects this disease can have on an individual, their family, and the circle of people around them. Elizabeth faced her cancer with courage and enabled doctors and researchers to hopefully learn more about her type of breast cancer in order to save more lives and deal with an illness that affects too many women (and some men.) May you all be comforted in spirit and blessed by the light and love of God.
I had the privilege and honor of meeting Elizabeth last year. Her son Jack was in the same basketball team with my youngest son. My husband and I used to sit with her at the games and we shared some good laughs and happy times together and heard some wonderful stories about Wade, whom she spoke of frequently. She was so sincere and so sweet and had a fantastic sense of humor. I don’t think she ever missed a game and I believe sometimes she would come straight from her treatments to watch Jack play. She would cheer and encourage every single child in the team with such enthusiasm! She was great! And she knew the game so well too! What a strong, sincere and amazing lady! We were extremely sad when we found out that she had passed. Even though we only knew her for a short time, she left a big impression on us and we feel lucky and honored to have shared some of her happy moments. God bless Cate, Emma Claire and Jack. My thoughts and prayers are with them and the rest of their family and close friends. I know Elizabeth will be watching over them from Heaven.
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I never met Elizabeth Edwards but always followed her life struggles and how well she dealt with all the tragedies that come forth her. She was definetely a strong women. I hope she rests in peace, she deserves that from what she has endured in her life. I have lost many family members in my life to many different illnesses that I was extremely close to. I lost my maternal grandmother to lung cancer, my maternal grandfather to a heart condition he suffered with for 11 years, lost my paternal grandmother to many horrible strokes, lost my paternal grandfather to a massive heart attack and lost my uncle (my dad’s brother and my god-father) to a brain ayerisum. It is very hard to see them suffer and to see them go from suffering but they are now all at peace. Elizabeth has taught me to stay strong for many reasons. I have a daughter who is almost 14 and going into high school next year. She has suffered from AHDD since the age of six. We tried many medications for this and all of them made her extremely sick so we are using just tough love. Let me tell you it is very hard and I have many emotinal times but I find the grace of GOD to get me through/my faith in him as well. She has always struggled in school and as much as any mom would say or feel the same way I do, throwing in the towel is not an option, having faith is what helps me through my struggles. ELizabeth taught me to keep going an dto never give up and I thank her family for allowing me to share today! GOD BLESS your family and my thoughts/prayers are with you during this time!
Mary
12.10.10
-Crossing the Bar-
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
A graceful and strong soul that I feel is in the Throneroom of God. Her pain has ended. Elizabeth was an inspiration of strength to all people.
My greatest fear is to leave this earth while my child is still young. This also had to be her fear. I pray her children are taken care of and loved.
I didn’t know Mrs. Edwards on a personal level, but her strength and warm spirit came across over the television and touched alot of people including myself. Thank you. RIP
I have watched in great sadness to loss of a great lady. I was diagnosed with breast cancer about the same time Elizabeth was. I was very lucky it was caught early and I will live for many years to come. Elizabeth was an inspiration to me as I went thought the treatments. My son was friends with Wade when he was in elementary school. He has fond memories of going to play at Wade’s house and John coming home to play basketball with them then ordering pizza. I have great sympathy for the children and the family. My thoughts and prayers are with them. I know in my heart she is at peace now.
Psalm 23 – A psalm of David
“The lord is my shepher, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anount my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord – forever.
May you rest in peace, Elizabeth, and know your presence on this earth will always be a reminder that kindness, courage, hope and conviction of faith can inspire us to live our lives with authenticity and grace.
I admired your Mom so much when she was supporting help for the poor and for medical care for all of us. Truly a wonderful, admired woman. I know the pain of losing chilren. Four of my five boys died, when adults, and within 3 yrs of each other. I know she is with Wade and suffering is over for her. My sympathy to her children and friends and will remember her always.
I have followed Elizabeth’s story, I have read her books. She was one of the bravest, strongest and spiritual people! I am so sorry her family must move forward without her, though they will gather strength from her through all she did and legacy left behind. She is now at peace with Wade.
We are truly sorry for her loss. We personaly met her during the Edwards campaign trail, she is a remarkable woman, I thank her and her family for getting the word out regarding our corrupted health care system in the United States. We lost our daughter Nataline Sarkisyan at 17 back in 2007. We The Sarkisyan family will continue our fight for better health care in the US in Nataline’s name for no more denial. “I know my daughter will not come back but I know in my heart I can make a better change in this country”. Hilda Sarkisyan
To the children and family of Elizabeth Edwards,
I am a 2-time cancer survivor and my heart goes out to all of you. Your mother was a wonderful, caring, thoughtful, forgiving woman and you have all been blessed to have had her in your life. Sadly she was taken from you all too soon, and although none of us knows the answers as to why things like this happen, I hope you all take some comfort in knowing that she is with Wade now and that they are both smiling down on you and shall watch you and all your accomplishments throughout your lives. I wish I had the words to comfort you, but I don’t as I have suffered the loss of both my parents to cancer. Mom died at the age of 56, also way too young. Please take comfort in the love that you all share and when you think of your mother, think of her with a smile on your faces and great love in your heart. She will never be forgotten as so many of us watched her fight her fight with the greatest grace. She was a very special lady.
God Bless.
Gaile Zimmer
I will never forget my first interaction with Mrs. Edwards on the 08 campaign. As I reached my hand out to introduce myself, she said without skipping a beat “Good afternoon, Berry Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep Eagle”! An exact impersonation of my high school summer job as a receptionist at a car dealership. She even had the up-note for “Eagle”. It was moments like that–plus the time we compared our favorite purchases from Target–that made her so REAL to everyone who met her. Thinking of all my former colleagues during this time. Love to you all!
May Elizabeth rest in peace and may God assure her that her children will be in good hands. I did not know Elizabeth but look up to her for her strong will. Not worring about her self but worring about her children in the face of her death, she was a remarkable women with so much love for her family.
We are sending our condolences to the family and friends of Elizabeth Edwards. She touched many people through her strength, nurturing ways, and selfless giving. She is surely at peace with a loving God and her son who had passed at too young an age. May God bless you all with inner peace and healing from your personal loss of a beloved mother, advocate, and special friend. I lost my mother to breast cancer, my husband to colon cancer (after he fought an eight year battle), and I am a breast cancer survivor since my diagnosis in 1999. I know the terrible effects this disease can have on an individual, their family, and the circle of people around them. Elizabeth faced her cancer with courage and enabled doctors and researchers to hopefully learn more about her type of breast cancer in order to save more lives and deal with an illness that affects too many women (and some men.) May you all be comforted in spirit and blessed by the light and love of God.
I had the privilege and honor of meeting Elizabeth last year. Her son Jack was in the same basketball team with my youngest son. My husband and I used to sit with her at the games and we shared some good laughs and happy times together and heard some wonderful stories about Wade, whom she spoke of frequently. She was so sincere and so sweet and had a fantastic sense of humor. I don’t think she ever missed a game and I believe sometimes she would come straight from her treatments to watch Jack play. She would cheer and encourage every single child in the team with such enthusiasm! She was great! And she knew the game so well too! What a strong, sincere and amazing lady! We were extremely sad when we found out that she had passed. Even though we only knew her for a short time, she left a big impression on us and we feel lucky and honored to have shared some of her happy moments. God bless Cate, Emma Claire and Jack. My thoughts and prayers are with them and the rest of their family and close friends. I know Elizabeth will be watching over them from Heaven.
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