Jerret Perreira

Hi dad. Thought I’d stop by and say hi. Saw your grandson name sake yesterday. He is doing good. Getting big. Saw the other four also and they are fine. We have been busy helping Collette and things are looking good. Miss ya much.##imported-begin##Troy##imported-end##

Rest in Peace Uncle Jerry. I do not want to remember you the way you were the last time I saw you. I will remember you telling your jokes, having a smile, showing us your collectibles and all those salt & pepper shakers you have had throughout the year’s. Usually on a Wednesday I think Wednesdays, Albert (my husband) & I would see you and Aunt Carmen at the Thrift store looking for more salt & pepper shakers or collectibles. That is most what we have in common besides being family. I enjoy collecting & shopping for collectibles. All the collectibles I bought from you during the past few year’s I will keep & not sell them but give them to my kid’s someday. Val (Pop, my Dad, Ida’s husband) misses you alot too & tell’s me of the time’s when we lived in Hawaii and when Uncle Jerry & Aunt Carmen came to California & lived with us for a few month’s back in the early 1950’s when we lived in Oakland on Russet Street, Ida (your sister, my Mom)& Val wanted you two to save up to have a nice home of your own. I still have picture’s of those time’s that were taken, I was just a babe then & can’t remember that far back too much but I do remember walking down 105th Ave once when I was a bit older, I think I spent the night at you and Aunt Carmen’s because I remember her making breakfast & she buttered the toast for us, ever since then I butter everyone’s toast, before serving it at the table. Uncle Jerry & sister Ida enjoyed telling jokes, you would always comment on how much I look like my Mom, with the red hair, and give me a big quick kiss & big hug when we visit & upon leaving. After Mom (Ida) passed away in 2002, Val (Pop) & I always enjoyed you & Aunt Carmen’s visit’s and also us visiting you two & Cousin Rene. We visited so many time’s I lost count. I have alot of photo’s from those year’s of you and thousand’s of photo’s from family throughout the year’s as I really love taking picture’s. The last photo I got of Uncle Jerry is a smiling one standing in the garage amoung his collectible’s. Charlie Boy (your Nephew, my brother) was telling me how when he was a young kid and in Hawaii he would be with you alot Uncle Jerry, & kind of follow you around, he learned alot from you and misses you greatly, as Charles, Val & I was there to visit you Uncle Jerry that last time the day before you passed on. Our condolence’s to Aunt Carmen, Rene, Michelle, Troy, I know it’s hard to get over losing a loved one, I’ve just never really gotten over losing Mom, but try to only remember the good time’s. Thing’s can happen in this world, I have experienced Miracles. Last year when it made nine year’s that Mom (Ida) passed away I was sitting in my living room alone watching T.V. then I noticed something on the wall shining so brightly. I looked & it was a cross on the wall, shining, shimmering, sparkling, putting out sparkles. I couldn’t believe my eye’s, I looked around the room to see if it could be coming from somewhere, but no it was not of this world, it was real & beautiful, and good. I sat there amazed looking at the cross for about a little more than a minute, then it started to fade, but the way it faded was from the middle in a circle out to the edges. Even though it was so beautiful, it was a plain cross, not with the symbol of Jesus. I remember Mom (Ida) telling me a few weeks before she died if she had a cross it would be a plain cross. I can’t help to think that was a sign from Mom(Ida), I don’t know, that made 9 year’s that day she had passed. It was truly a Miracle, & I believe in Miracles. I believe in the Good Lord, yes I believe in God, the only one Creator. All of us must take this path, only God can judge us. Absent from the body present with the Lord. Rest in Peace Dear Uncle Jerry. You are Loved.Rachel, Val, Albert & Charlie Boy.##imported-begin##Rachel DeLeon Martinez##imported-end##