Pamela Hunter
December 11, 2007
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Pamela Hunter, 55, of Altoona, died unexpectedly Dec. 11, 2007. Services will be Saturday, Dec. 15, at 1:30 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 721 E. 1st St, Ankeny, IA. with burial to follow at Altoona Cemetery. The family will receive visitors at the Hamilton’s Altoona Funeral Home, 105 4th Street SW Friday, Dec 14, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
Pam is survived by her husband Michael, son Christopher, and twin daughters; Alicia and Amanda. She is also survived by her mother, Charlotte Bisconer of Fortuna, and her brothers and sisters: Evelyn, Skip, Linda, Marsha, Candy, Kim, Michelle, Terry, and Lori, and many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her father, Milo “Beanie”Bisconer.
Pam was loved by her family,as well as by the many daycare children that she cared for over the years.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial contributions
be made to Blank Children’s Hospital in Pamela’s honor.
Amanda
01/15/2009
It's been a year since you passed away. So much has changed with you being gone. It's been hard being away from you and not going to visit you, but just know that you are in my thoughts every single day. Not a day goes by where I don't remind myself of the effect you have had in my life. It's funny sometimes how I catch myself doing something I know for certain carried from you. Miss you more then anything mom!
Amanda
05/12/2008
It's now a couple hours past...but I still needed to leave a message for you on here. I just wanted to tell you HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! Normally is a day of celebration day for you, and a day of appreciation for us kids but it is one of the saddest days for me. It's hard for me to be thankful when you are gone now. We finally got your headstone up and it is beautiful and stands out far above the rest...definitely all that you deserve Mom!! Even though my heart has hurt more than it ever will thinking of how difficult it is with you being gone, and thinking how much I miss you, I still want to remind you how much I love you and how thankful I am that I had you as my mother growing up. Dustin's mom came down this weekend and we went to my work to get a couple movies and we were talking about my move to Oklahoma...she told me that Alicia and I are so grown up for only being 21, and I had to agree...but she also added in that you would be so proud of me right now for taking such a big leap for myself and succeeding. I know you are watching over us Mom and I really hope that I am making you proud. I miss you and love you more than anything Mom. Even though you weren't physically here with us this Mother's Day you definitely weren't forgotten!!! THANK YOU MOM FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT EXAMPLE AND INSPIRATION IN MY LIFE! I LOVE YOU!!!
Alicia
03/10/2008
Mom,
I cant believe how fast these last 3 months have gone. It really sucks without you here. Not a day goes by that I dont think of you, and wish I could have you back here with us. I love you!
Amanda
01/20/2008
Hey Mom...I don't really have much to say, I just wanted to write to you. I'm not sure why but these past few days have just been SO hard for me. I miss you so much and it's been hard for me to get to sleep because I know when I wake up you still won't be here with us. I'm sorry I haven't been to the cemetary to visit this last week...it's almost unbearable in this cold, but I'll get there soon I PROMISE YOU!!! I hope you know how much I love you and miss you Mom!!! I'll be talking with you soon. Love you with all of my heart!!
Chris
01/11/2008
Hey Mom!
Its been a month now, and its still hard to believe that you are really gone! This really is the hardest time of my life and everyone else. Its hard to truely be happy anymore. Its so hard to do anything without knowing you are just a phone call or drive away. I still dont understand why you had to leave us all so soon, even after everyone tells me that god had his reasons. How am I suppose to forgive him for taking you away from me?
Please know there isnt a minute that goes by that I dont think about you.
Im sorry i didnt show you how much i really do love you more. im REALLY sorry i didnt make it down that day and surprise you like you told deb you thought i was going to do...IM SORRY MOM!!!!
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYONE!!!!
CHRIS
Amanda
01/11/2008
Hey Mom, how are you doing up there in Heaven? I just wanted to send you a quick message to tell you again that I love you and miss you!!! It's crazy thinking it has been a month now since you passed away. I didn't think I'd ever make it this long without you here. I miss you Mom!!!! I hope you are resting in peace now. Love you with all of my heart!
amanda
01/01/2008
happy new year mom!!!! it's really weird thinking im starting a new year without you here...i just hate the thought of my future without you in it!!! did you get my message on your grave? We wanted to add that shawneen n grandma love you too but we ran out of room in the snow, hehe, but i'm sure you know we all love you and miss you like crazy! i was telling alicia how i think the only time its really going to hit me that you are actually gone is when major things happen...me getting married, having kids, my job, birthdays, and holidays...just big things like that. i know 2008 is going to be full of many ups and downs and it's going to be hard going through each of them without you physically here. but you were always there to talk to then and i know you'll continue to be there for me when i need to talk still. mom you're the best there ever was and ever will be. i love you so much!!!!
Amy Jaeger
12/31/2007
Dear Mike, Chris, Amanda, and Alicia -
I am so sorry - I just read your email and I am still in shock - as I sit here crying. Pam was a wonderful person and my family is truly touched and grateful for having her in our life. She was a second mom to our daughter. Meghan during the first year and a half of her life with always waking up early (6:30am) with Meghan. I truly believe Pam helped shape Meghan into the caring little girl she is today - we have pictures of Meghan with Pam and will always cherish these. Pam was an angel to us while we lived in Des Moines and now she is an angel to us everyday. I want you to know that she will NEVER be forgotten - her smile, her laugh, and especially the love she gave to my family. My prayers, thoughts, and well wishes are with all of you -
Sincerely,
Amy Jaeger
Mika Kishida
12/29/2007
I can't believe what I just read about Pam.
I haven't met her so long (16 years) but I talked her on the phone a couple
times this year and she was telling me that we might able to see each other again soon
when she and Mike take a trip to Hawaii.
I was so shocked. I can't believe that trip won't happen anymore.
I'm so sorry, Mike. It's painful to imagine what you've been going through.
I'm so sorry that you had to send me that news.
Chris, Amanda and Alicia,
I'm guessing that you don't remember me, but I remember you all very well.
Chris was 6, Amada and Alicia were 3 and had their 4-year birthday while I was
staying with you in Dixon, CA.
You guys were my littlest best friends back then.
I have so many great memories from that time.
The Hunter family was truly an ideal host family.
Happy mother and husband, fun and cute children, one dog, two cats and some
neighbors' babies.
Pam cooked every night for us. Pam and Mike drove me around in their old huge
classic car.
They took me to day trips such as S.F. and Sea World, and a nearby county
fair.
They invited me to their temple on Sundays and I even joined a women's camp
with Pam in Napa Valley.
Pam was very easy going and I felt at home soon after I arrived at the Hunter
house although I hardly spoke English back then.
Pam didn't mind that it was difficult to communicate with me. She still talked a lot to
me and she made me laugh a lot.
I was so comfortable being part of the family.
Pam has been a good friend of mine since that time.
I was so lucky that she e-mailed and called me once in a while.
She was a good listener and she cheered me up when I had problems with my
husband.
I know you had many students. Pam, you were a great host mom who's sure to
be missed by all of the students.
I miss you a lot.
I hope now you visit us anytime you want.
Chris, Amanda and Alicia,
I read your messages to your mom.
I felt the same way when my mother passed away when I was 27.
She was 48.
I thought I wouldn't be able to smile again.
It was true that I couldn't laugh from the bottom of my heart for a couple
years.
I miss my mother a lot but the pain is much less now.
So, I hope you can believe that someday you can be strong again.
Just think that your mom can hear your voice and she will come to you
instantly wherever you are, whenever you need her.
Mike,
I don't know what to say.
Pam told me last time again that you're a good husband.
You two will always be my mentors for marriage.
Wishing you strength and health.
Keep in touch.
Love,
Mika Kishida
Amanda
12/26/2007
Hey Mom...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Christmas sure wasnt the same with you gone...I worked all day today which made it a little easier to not think about you passing away. It's really weird right now...everyday seems to be getting harder when i think about the future and you not being a part of it, but the days are also getting somewhat easier and I'm able to smile and laugh more each day. I know that you would love for us to be happy,and to think of you each day and be so thankful we had out in our lives for the time that we did, and to just remember all the great memories we all had together...i know that is what you want from us is to just move on and be happy, but still I feel guilty when I feel like I'm smiling and laughing too often, because inside i am still aching beyond belief.
We found the daycare kids christmas presents that you had hiding in that closet...I'll have to say, you have stumped us all yet again *except for nealy's of course, haha* but we managed to get them all sorted out and I hope we got the gifts right for the most part. We know how much you loved each and every one of those kids and I know that they'll always treasure these last gifts from their Pammy.
Please continue watching over us and giving us your strenght Mom!!!! I'll still be praying to you each and everyday, hope you wont get sick of my voice anytime soon... I know you won't cuz you miss me just as much as I miss you :) Take care up there, and I can't wait till one day I'll be able to see you again!!!!! I LOVE YOU MOM!!
-oh yeah...lynnae asks that if you want to visit, please don't scare her at work, hehe. be talking to you soon mom, love you
Alicia
12/25/2007
Merry Christmas Mom! I wish you were here with me. I love you so much!
Carroll and Birdie Brownfield
12/20/2007
Dear MIKE and Family,
We are so sorry to hear about Pam. I will always have good
memories of my cousin Pam. Just wanted you to know I am thinking
of all of you. Love Birdie and Family
Amanda
12/19/2007
Mom...it has been a week now since you passed away. It has been the hardest week of our lives. I think about you every minute of every day. Everyone keeps saying things are going to be okay, but I don't know how I can believe it when it just keeps getting harder with every day that passes. I went back to work for the first time tonight...it was so hard with the customers asking me how I'm doing. I had to stay positive and tell them I'm doing well but inside my heart was aching thinking about you. I wear your necklace every day now...it gives me some comfort knowing part of you is still close to me. I only wish I wouldn't had taken so much for granted when you were actually here with me. I miss your boredom phone calls. I wish I would have answered them more often rather then pushing ignore on my phone...as much as I hated those random ramblings, I'd much rather be able to hear your voice and talk to you than just sit back right now and think of how I'll never hear your voice again...I miss everything little thing about you mom, all the good and the bad. I just wish I had one more day I could deal with it all over again just so I can see your smile and tell you I love you one more time!!! But I am just left with these writings to you, and the prayers I send your way up in Heaven.
I hope you are able to look down and see how much everyone misses you and loves you. You have touched SO many people's lives Mom and you will NEVER be forgotten. Your stubborn and strong, yet bright and loving spirit will always remain with all of us you left behind. You truly were amazing, and I hope that I can make you proud with what my future holds. Please continue watching over us and giving us strenght to go on. I love you so much Mom and I miss you more than words can say. I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marsha L. Chase
12/19/2007
Pam, I am so sorry and so completely sadden that I will not receive a call from you in the very near future. You are one of my very special sisters and we have many and special brothers too and we Don, Dawn & Tiara, Janna. Brandon & Jasmine will truly miss you, more than we can say. Like Mike, Chris, Alicia, and Amanda there are no words to describe what we feel.
You can not sleep in the same room and the same bed with someone for 16 years without out having a special bond. I wanted to be with you and the family, the guilt is so great but I am so glad that we had a nice talk on Saturday. I will never forget that conversation. I am so glad that I was able to tell you that I loved you one last time.
I have so many memories of your childhood to share with Chris, Alicia and Amanda and their future children. I am so upset that you did not get to experience being a grandma. I just wish that I lived closer so I could be serrate grandma to your future grandchildren.
Mike if you need any one, please call. You and the kids are always welcome anytime.
You will love Montana to visit the scenery is amazing the wild life is abundant and we have a extra guest room and private bath. Don and I were going to try and drive back to see you and Pam this summer, now I feel so disorientated and sadden.
To her friends and our family, loosing Pam so un-expectedly only made me realize how precious your siblings and family are, you do not have to agree with the way they are living or who they are living with, what their beliefs, or politics are. Weather they borrowed money from you and did not pay it back or that they do not have the will power to be the picture perfect human that you expect them to be, only that you care abut them. Its important to touch base even its for only for a 5 to 10 minutes at a time. Pam realized the importance of this and she made conscious effort with all of us. Now it is our turn to do the same thats what Pam would have wanted.
One of Pams and my favorite stories read to us by our mother Charlotte was Little Lost Angle It use to be printed by Arand McNally books, Author: Janet Field Heath, Illustrated by: Janet Laura Scott. It now is printed by someone else, which I have temporarily missed placed my current copy but I think we all should keep a copy of this book because I believe that this helped build both Pam and I because we were so close.
Angles came down from heaven and the little angel followed. The little angel grew tired from her flight and fell asleep in the Meadow with the lambs. When she awoke the angles had gone. She saw an angle in the distant she straightened her crown and gently spread her wings and hurried to him but he was only a man waking by himself, his head hung so low he did not even see the great star.
The little angel looked at him and asked, Why dont you sing?
Sing! Why should I sing? What is there to sing about? growled the Man.
It makes you happy to sing laughed the angel. She ran her fingers across the harp she carried and sang softly a little song. There, isnt that pretty?
Very, very pretty, said the man looking at her at last.
Here you take itthen you can sing, and she placed the Harp into his hand. and, please, can you tell me if the angels went this way?
Angles? Angles? I did not see them?
Then she saw someone else walking down the road and said oh I see one and scurried away. But alas, again it was a stranger to whom she came-a- woman this time. Her clothes were rich and gay but her face was hard and sullen, and she spoke rough to the little angel. Go away! Go away! I am not a fit person for child to be seen with.
Is it because you lost your crown? asked the little angel. If you have you may have mine. And please did you see which way the angels went?
Angles she said in a startled voice. She held the crown in her hand, as she looked at it, long lost tears ran down her face. What is this that is happening to me? She whispered. But the little angel had gonemore quickly now that she had no harp to carry or no crown upon her head. So fast did she go that she almost feel upon on a little boy sitting on the roadside crying as though his heart would break.
What is that sound you are making, little one? asked the little angle.
Im crying, the little boy told her. I wanted to see the new King, who is to be in Bethlehem tonight. But they have all gone away and left me. Im lame, you see, so I cant walk fast, and by the time I get there the King will be gone.
A King! said the little angle. I thought it was a baby.
They said he was a King, and the little boy began to cry again.
Take My wings, said the angle. You can not walk very well so it is you who should have them. She fastened her wings to his shoulders. They were soft and fluttery thing and the low night breezes bore the boy forward in a gentle, rapturous motion. Thank you, he called back, but the angel could barely here him because she was trying to walk without her wings. It was difficult and she kept falling to the ground and her feet were tender, cut and bruised.
But the big star is there, as she went forward. Seeing the light! Is it Heaven at last? But it was not a light from Heaven it was candles in a home near by. She knocked at the door and a woman opened the door and could not believe her eyes. Peter she whispered into the room, come and see it is a miracle because we have prayed so long. Is this a child sent to us at last? The woman drew her close and sang a song of joy, and the little angel closed her eyes and dreamed she was in Heaven. Many year passed Dorcas and Peter grew old and passed away. The lost angle stayed in their home alone. She tended the sheep and gathered the grapes and made the bread. Many travelers knocked on her door, they found food, and rest. They told her about their travels and the people they had met. Their stories were of the great ones in the world. The poet who sang his way straight into the hearts of men. They told of the great hearted woman who spent her life helping the poor and the sinful. They told of a leader of the people-lame, it is true, but inspired and beloved. The angle never knew that the poet was the man to whom she had given her harp, the great hearted woman was the one who were her crown, and that the leader was of the people was the boy who had taken her wings.
I believe that that Pam was and angel living her life giving to others so they to could be strong.
I love you Pam.
I Love you Mike, Chris, Alicia, and Amanda
Marsha L. Chase your loving sister
gail macmillan
12/18/2007
My sons, Scott and Glen, send our condolences to you Mike, Chris, Amanda, and Alicia. Last evening I looked through my photo album. Pictures of all of you in 1989 and 1994. A picture of you Mike and Pam with 3 mos old Chris. and pictures of the twins in 2005. When she e-mailed me Pam was always happy and full of information about her family. She knew that you were all started on a fine road.
I'll get your phone number from 411 this evening and call if i may.
Take care of each other and honor Pam's life. Love Aunt Gail