- Location
- REDLANDS, CA. (SoCal)
You know the feeling. 
A friend wants you to go with them to look a car over and tell them if they should buy it. I said I'd give it a once over and let her know what I thought. It was at one of those little used lots in a less than picturesque area of Riverside Ca. It was a clean little '74 Capri, 17,000 miles and I was 16 years old. She was 17, kinda cute and a tail on her 
that I ended up following for the next 26-1/2 years. She drove that Capri for seven more years with no problems. That is until the carb came loose and it caught fire while I was pulling into a gas station. I thought I was running out of gas. Nope. It was on fire and at the pumps. Timing is everything!
The car was gone, but I had found a friend on that little car lot doing something that I just knew would come back and bite me on the butt. No, bit the heart instead.
I lost Norma last Thursday morning around 4 am from a complication following surgery. A blood clot broke loose in her leg and ended up at the lungs. She went home in her sleep.
There was nothing left unsaid. Our marriage was full of love and affection. But most of all we were best friends. Both of our boys were able to witness what God had in mind for a man and a woman. Through the good and the bad, our God and our vows before Him were the center point of our life.
I'm trying to do two thing here. #One is to those of you that had met or knew her know what has happened. #Two is just to say to those of you who are still so young and single: Choose well, commit to the commitment and don't forget to look into the mirror. It's worth it!
I'll miss her, but its time to go on. That's what she wanted.
Tim Bentley
A friend wants you to go with them to look a car over and tell them if they should buy it. I said I'd give it a once over and let her know what I thought. It was at one of those little used lots in a less than picturesque area of Riverside Ca. It was a clean little '74 Capri, 17,000 miles and I was 16 years old. She was 17, kinda cute and a tail on her that I ended up following for the next 26-1/2 years. She drove that Capri for seven more years with no problems. That is until the carb came loose and it caught fire while I was pulling into a gas station. I thought I was running out of gas. Nope. It was on fire and at the pumps. Timing is everything!The car was gone, but I had found a friend on that little car lot doing something that I just knew would come back and bite me on the butt. No, bit the heart instead.
I lost Norma last Thursday morning around 4 am from a complication following surgery. A blood clot broke loose in her leg and ended up at the lungs. She went home in her sleep.
There was nothing left unsaid. Our marriage was full of love and affection. But most of all we were best friends. Both of our boys were able to witness what God had in mind for a man and a woman. Through the good and the bad, our God and our vows before Him were the center point of our life.
I'm trying to do two thing here. #One is to those of you that had met or knew her know what has happened. #Two is just to say to those of you who are still so young and single: Choose well, commit to the commitment and don't forget to look into the mirror. It's worth it!
I'll miss her, but its time to go on. That's what she wanted.
Tim Bentley
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