Memorials

On-Line

A Journey With Wings is happy to commemorate your loved one’s journey with an on-line post here on our site. You can use it as an on-line obituary and link it to your announcements if you wish. This is on-line service we offer with all of our packages.

Please enjoy looking through the previous memorials we’ve posted here and celebrating the lives of those we’ve helped memorialize.

Alfred And Priscilla Valdez

I never thought this day would come when I would be able to finally grant your wish to spread your ashes in Yosemite. The good lord has given me the strength and courage to say my final good-byes. Continue reading

Roseanne Healis

Roseanne Healis was born January 4th, 1924, in Philadelphia, PA. She leaves an older brother, John and she had a sister, Mary, as well as other extended family. John says that when she was a little girl she would follow him and the boys everywhere and because of this, she learned to do all …Continue reading

Clay Lockett

In September 1978 clay Locket went out to the “beginner’s hill” at Simi to practice a few rings because he was to be involved in a ballon drop, and wanted everything to go perfect. At Simi he sustained a head injury after his glider stalled and did a 180 turn back into the hill…reportedly … Continue reading

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew — And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
—John Gillespie Magee, Jr