Sunday, December 13, 2020

Mom's 90th Birthday


🎝  🎜  Happy Birthday to you..... 🎝  🎜




September 6, 2020, was Mom, Mema, "Gramma Charlene"'s 90th birthday. She was not feeling well that week so our celebration with her was through her window with balloons and fruit kabobs and cake balls for the nursing staff at The Manor. 

Her adopted "grandchildren" at the Lar Mana Children's Home in Brazil, however, went all out with cake, games, and fun to celebrate her day. In turn, she gave each of them a present for her birthday. It was what made her the happiest:  to give love and security to these children through projects, toys, stuffed animals, books, and ice cream as well as donations to the home through the last few years. She knew many by name through pictures and asked about them frequently.

Mom passed away on Nov. 24, 2020, from complications with Covid. 

Obituary for Charlene Bullard Wade

(Card from flowers above:   To our American Grandmother, in appreciation for all of the love and care you have given us over the years. We love you! From the children and staff of the LAR Mana Children's Home, Paulista, Brazil)

Charlene Bullard Wade, 90, passed from this life on November 24, 2020. She leaves a daughter, Kathy Short (Randy) of Recife, Brazil, and two sons, Randy (Beverly) of Memphis and Philip (Kris) of Greenbrae, CA. She leaves eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband of 64 years, James Edwin Wade. She worked as a secretary for UT Dental School. She loved her family and deeply cared for children. She was the preschool coordinator at Macon Rd. Church of Christ for 15 years and later volunteered in the educational resource room at Germantown Church of Christ. In recent years, she provided much encouragement through projects for the children at the LAR Maná Children’s Home in Paulista, Brazil, where the children know her as their American grandmother. The family would like to express its gratitude and heartfelt thanks to the nurses and staff at Kirby Pines, Caring In-Place and to Crossroads Hospice for their loving care. The immediate family will unite for a funeral service Sunday, Nov. 29 at 1:30. The family requests that instead of flowers memorial donations be sent to HopeWorks, Agape, or to benefit the LAR Maná children’s home: (Bellevue Church of Christ, 7401 HWY. 100, Nashville, TN. 37221, Attn: Larry Smith/Recife Children's Home)

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We are in the process of developing a park for the Lar Mana do Céu Nursery/Preschool with the contributions made to the Charlene Wade Children's Fund. 

We hope to have it completed by the time school returns on Feb. 2, 2020. Since this nursery/preschool is located on the campus of the children's home we have not had to close due to covid19 restrictions. 

We will be posting pictures of the park as it is completed.



The photo above: Children from the Nursery/Preschool working with the letter "U".