Category: Obituaries

Have you ever experienced the fullness of joy? Have the experiences of your life ever been described as your “…cup running over?” I pray that you have because there is no greater feeling than that. We live in a world where so many are full, but not with joy; but with sadness, sorrow and discouragement. The tragedy of such an empty feeling is that God never intended for us to feel that way. He created each of us to walk in fullness of joy. In 1975, my wife Lynda and I were expecting our daughter. For months we had been…

Mary Helen Platter (Chamberlain) was born April 3, 1945 to Howard and Helen Chamberlain. She passed away unexpectedly May 30, 2019 at her home in Costa Mesa, California, just nine days after her brother Alan. She was also preceded in death by her parents Howard and Helen Chamberlain and nephew Mark Chamberlain Jr. Mary was an excellent artist from a very young age and continued it as a hobby until eye surgery left her unable. She spent years working as an insurance claim adjuster, then working for a realtor, and spent her final years working for her dear friends Glen…

Several weeks ago, we had the greatest snowfall that I have seen since moving to Kingman ten years ago. With as much as sixteen inches of snow recorded, the temperatures dropped accordingly. The fresh, brilliant white snow brought a cleanness that was undisturbed for a short amount of time. Its beauty was unparalleled. But as the weeks have passed, so has the winter weather, and the trees began to bud, and flowers to bloom. To look at things as they are today, you would never know that our Kingman weather was the harshest in forty years. Seasons come and go,…