Some days you wake up not knowing how you should feel.
Today is one of those days.
Six years ago today, around 1 or 2 in the afternoon, I received a phone call that changed my life forever.
My sister Amy had passed away.
As C.S. Lewis said about the death of a close loved one – it’s like an amputation. You never get over it. You don’t out grow it. You don’t get used to it. You just learn to live without it.
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BLUNDELL, AMY ELIZABETH, 24, went to be with her Lord and Savior, Monday, March 21st at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas after a month of complications.
Amy was born in Dallas, December 22, 1980, to Fred and Margery Blundell.
She graduated from Poteet High School, Mesquite, in 1999, and also graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in 2003, and was awarded the Golden Cross Award, awarded to the nursing student displaying a “Christian Attitude” in all he or she does.
Amy returned to Dallas after graduation and worked as a Labor and Delivery Nurse at Presbyterian Hospital until her death.
Amy was an active member of Metropolitan Bible Church in Dallas, where she worked with AWANAS and taught Sunday School.
She also participated in the Bible Study Fellowship International and served as a camp counselor at Hidden Acres Retreat Center in Kaufman for several years.
She served for a month with The Evangelical Alliance Missions in Germany teaching English as a Second Language to German students.
She also volunteered at the Downtown Pregnancy Center in Dallas.
On December 28, 2004, Amy was engaged to Matthew Lehmann of Dallas, the two were to be married in May.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, John E. and Rosemarie Blundell.
Amy is survived by her parents, Fred and Margery Blundell of Mesquite; her older brother, Jonathan Blundell of Belton; her younger sister, Kara Blundell of Mesquite; her fiance’, Matt Lehmann of Dallas; her grandparents, Deryl and Oleta Knotts of Dallas and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
Visitation will be 6:00 to 8:00pm Friday, March 25, 2005, at Grove Hill Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 10:00am Saturday, March 26th at Lake Ridge Bible Church in Mesquite, with Rev. Charles R. Diffee officiating.
Interment will follow at Grove Hill Memorial Park.
Memorials may be made to The Downtown Pregnancy Center, 1707 San Jacinto St, Dallas, TX 75201. Dignity Memorial Grove Hill 3920 Samuell Blvd. Dallas (214) 388-8887
Published in the Dallas Morning News on 3/25/2005.
