Dear Lord and Father of all things known and unknown, we gather here in your presence to celebrate the life of this beautiful woman, Dorothy Faye Tucker, this loving mother, this caring friend. Her passing has left some empty spaces in our lives, but we thank you Lord for allowing us to share in her earthly life, and our prayer is that we will be able in some small way to shape our lives by remembering Dodi’s legacy: especially her capacity for love, and she did love so many, her ability to listen to all our troubles, her eagerness to help whenever we called, her willingness to forgive, her marvelous gift of laughter. We pray that you may visit upon us all those gifts we so cherished in her.
Christ our eternal King and God, You have destroyed death by Your Cross and have restored man to life by Your Resurrection; give rest, Lord, to the soul of Delores Your servant. There is much we do not understand, but we do know that you have gathered her into your loving arms and she rests in Your Kingdom, where there is no pain, no sorrow, no suffering.
We know that no man nor woman lives without sin. In Your goodness and love for all of us, forgive her those sins she has committed in thought word or deed and grant her eternal rest in your loving arms. We live in peace because know that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor any other creature, nothing that will be able to separate Dolores Faye Tucker from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
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