Sarah Hamilton
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Grandma
You’re where the best grandma anyone can ask for! I miss you every single day! I love and miss you so much!
In loving memory of
Eva Mae Gertsema
June 15, 1940 – July 4, 2023
Lived 83 years
Milbank City Cemetery · Milbank, South Dakota
To those I love and those who loved me, I gave you my love you can only guess how much you gave to me in happiness. I thank you for the love you each have shown, but know it is time I travel on alone. When I am gone, release me, let me go. I have so many thing to see and do. Though you can’t seem me or touch me I will be near with all my love around you soft and clear. When you must come this way alone I will great you with a hug and say “Welcome Home”
Life story
Eva enjoyed being in the outdoors. In her young years she could be found fishing with her sisters. Putting puzzles together was on of her favorite pastimes. Family was very important to her; all her kids had a special place in her heart. Her grandchildren and great- grandchildren were especially dear to her. She will be missed dearly but all who cherished her!
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1940
Born June 15
1949
Eva was 9 when Gene Autry recorded "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
1958
Eva was 18 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1963
Eva was 23 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
1977
Eva was 37 when Star Wars opened in theaters
1989
Eva was 49 when "The Simpsons" debuted as a series
1998
Eva was 58 when Google was founded
2005
Eva was 65 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2016
Eva was 76 when Pokemon Go sent millions outdoors hunting creatures
2022
Eva was 82 when Queen Elizabeth II died after 70 years on the throne
2023
Passed away July 4, age 83
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