Teresa MARIE MADSON
June 18, 1967 - June 22, 2022
Obituary
06/18/1967 – 06/22/22
TERESA WAS BORN JUNE 18, 1967 IN SPOKANE WA TO ART MADSON AND ARLENE (LAVADOUR) MADSON. SHE PASSED AWAY ON JUNE 22, 2022 IN BURIEN, WA AT THE HOME SHE SHARED WITH HER SISTER CORRI AND BROTHER IN-LAW MERLE.
TERESA WAS VERY ACTIVE IN SEATTLE PARKS DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES AND SEATTLE “SHARKS” SPECIAL OLYMPICS. THE STORIES, LAUGHTER, AND GIGGLES WILL FOREVER BE MISSED, WITH EVERYTHING THAT TERESA PARTICIPATED IN. HER LOVE OF BOWLING, BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, AND TRACK AND FIELD ARE SOMETHING THAT TERESA WAS SO VERY PROUD OF. JUST HEARING TERESA WALK UP AT FT. LEWIS EACH AND EVERY YEAR TO ONE OF THE UNIFORMED SOLDIERS AND TELLING THEM HOW MUCH SHE LIKED THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE CUTE WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE MISSED BY EVERYONE. TERESA LOVED ELVIS AND WOULD DANCE AND SING TO ALL OF HIS SONGS. HER ROOM WAS FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF ELVIS MEMORABILIA.
TERESA IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, ART MADSON (1984) AND ARLENE (LAVADOUR) MADSON (1989), HER OLDEST BROTHER KEN, AND YOUNGEST BROTHER ERIC (2017). SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SISTER CORRI AND BROTHER IN-LAW MERLE WHOM BOTH OF THEM LOVED HER MORE THAN ANYONE COULD EVER IMAGINE. STAYING HOME AND PROVIDING THE CARE, AND COMFORT TO TERESA IS WHAT MATTERED TO BOTH CORRI AND MERLE, AND IT WAS DEMONSTRATED EACH AND EVERY DAY.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO TIM, ROBERTO, DARRELL, AND KEN FOR ALL OF THE LOVE AND ATTENTION, AND KIND HEARTEDNESS THEY GAVE TO TERESA, CORRI AND MERLE.
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE WILL BE HELD AT AND WILL INCLUDE A MEAL:
1234 SOUTH 129TH ST.
BURIEN, WASHINGTON 98168
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS PLEASE MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO ANY SPECIAL OLYMPICS ORGANIZATION THERE IS, AS THIS WOULD MAKE TERESA SMILE SO PROUDLY KNOWING THAT OTHER ATHLETICS WILL SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE.
I love you sister!!
I love you more than anyone will ever know! I hope that you took the lords hand and walk on through to the other side! I will miss you more than you will ever know sis, and I hope you knows that I mean that!! You were what kept me getting up each and every day to go to work to make sure no matter what you were provided for!! I miss you each and everyday since you left our home!!! Don’t worry I will take care of Merle for you and when it is time for him to come home you will be standing there smiling and telling him welcome home!! I love you so very much and it hurts so very much that you are still waiting to be taken care of, I signed everything today and tomorrow hopefully it will all be taken care of!! I love
You forever sis, I hope that you realize that!!
Teresa I hope that you know that I always looked forward to your smile, the laughter and the silly things that you always did! Merle is so very heartbroken, I try to be strong for him but is isn’t easy!! I love you my sweet little sister, you brought so very much joy and happiness into my life, I will never forget any of it!! I love you to the moon and back, will forever love you!! The night you left, I opened the window so your soul could fly free, as I sat and cried harder than I have ever cried before about anyone or anything in my life! I know that you had a glorious homecoming, and I feel so blessed that you were comfortable and at peace!! We will forever remember you and what so much joy you brought to everyone’s lives that you touched!! I love you my sweet sister!!
Each and everyday multiple times a day I miss you more and more!! Hard to believe that at 8pm tonight you will be gone one week. I am happy that you aren’t suffering or wanting to go outside and do things that you can’t anymore, that you are up there with everyone and loving running around talking to them all!! I hope that you know how very very much you were loved and how very very much you are being missed!! Hugs to you sweetie, I love you so much!! Please continue to keep a watch over us all, especially Merle he isn’t doing good but as you know he puts up a strong front for everyone. I love you sweetie, you will soon be going home.
My dear, sweet Aunt Teresa, I don’t even know where to start. My heart was shattered when I found out that you had become a beautiful angel in Heaven. We may have lost touch, but you were never far from my heart or mind. I hope that Heaven is as amazing as I’m sure you had always thought it would be, and it sure is lucky to have you.
I want you to know that some of my favorite, most important life lessons, I learned from you and I pass them on to my girls. They say everyone has a hero, and I have been so incredibly blessed, because you are one of mine 💗 your love for life was infectious and everyone who who had the pleasure of having you in their lives thrived on that, and it spread!
I hope that your reunion with our family on the other side was special, and I want you to know that you left such an incredible imprint on this world. I am so much better for having someone so amazing in my life to call my Aunt, you truly were and always will be one of my biggest inspirations! Love you always ❤️
Today is a tough day…..I can’t wait to see the fireworks tonight and watch them with you but you aren’t here. I don’t like that you aren’t here, I think about you constantly and I see how you being gone effects Merle and it breaks my heart! I love you so very much more than anyone will ever know, my heart is still shattered and I don’t know what to do. But tonight we will light a very special firework for you, “Purple Rain”, Merle bought it just for you. I love you and miss you, please place an arm around me tonight.
Vicki S. Bonner (Madson)
Today is beautiful, just the type of day you would love! I miss you sweetheart, and tomorrow things will be finalized for you, and I can pick you up on Friday. It will be tough taking you over to Spokane to be with Eric, but he will watch out for you. I love you, always have and always will. I’m relived that the paperwork was signed, and Merle and I took care of everything else. My obligation to you isn’t over yet, but soon things will be completed. We all miss you, talk about you and the memories we share, Merle is handling things ok it is getting easier for him.
I love you sweet sister!! Today is the day you are taken care of, I will pick you up Friday and will keep you here until the 25th; I will take you over to Spokane at that time where you will be laid to rest with Eric. I’m sad to see today is here, but so thankful that you are! Smile and keep having a good time, give everyone a huge hug from both Merle and I, I know that I have never said goodbye, it is always take good care of everyone and I will see you again some day. Hugs and kisses sweetie, I can’t give you that anymore and that is ok, I am at peace with you passing, and finally able to rest knowing you are with those whom love you more. Smile, joke and have a good time, I love you and I know that you knew that. Hugs and kisses!!
Merle and I picked you up today, we will have you laid to rest tomorrow. I still am really struggle with you being gone, it just doesn’t seem real. I love you sweetie, I know you are at peace. Love you forever and ever!!
Today is has been 2 months and 8 days since you passed. I still miss you like crazy, I look for you everywhere! I wish more than anything that you were still here, every morning at 6 am walking out of your bedroom telling me good morning and giving me a hug, waiting on breakfast. Or during the day, watching you play your video game, walking around outside and teasing Merle, or just sitting and talking to me. I miss everything, nothing went unnoticed. I know that you are watching down on us, laughing at Merle, or just commenting about what is happening. I love you so very much, I told you that each and everyday, and I am so very thankful that you knew you were loved, wanted and appreciated. Sometimes it feels like this is all a dream and that you will appear, I will never get used to you not being here. I love you so very much, and miss you so very much. I will wait to see you again, get a huge hug and hear what you have been doing. One day, I will get a hug from you once again. I love you sis!!
I love you my sweet little sister! I know that you always disliked me calling you little but to me you were. The weather is changing, time is moving forward and there are some days I feel like it is so tough for me to continue but I do. You were and always will be what I strive to be in life, full of love and acceptance, forgiveness and giving. I always admired that about you, you never let what anyone did or said affect you, you took it all in and just kept moving forward. I love you so very much, it is hard to explain but deep within me I know. Love you sis, give everyone a hug and kiss and continue to smile.
Four months….just doesn’t seem possible! We went to Vegas for Merle’s birthday, was ok just different. The weather has changed and it is now raining and cold!! Always the weather you didn’t like, and I agree it is just too darn cold out! I really miss you sis, think about you always, really wishing I could sit and talk to you or watch a tv show again with you. Savannah and Hannah came to see me the weekend before we left, they brought me a beautiful picture that the mounting around it is all signed by those who went to programs with you, it made me cry. But happy tears!! Merle keeps telling me that it will get easier, I hope so but right now I just want you near. I love you forever and a day sweetheart, and I really really miss you!!
Oh Teresa I really wish you were here!! The first Thanksgiving without you was very tough, but I kept my word to you and powered through. But oh how in a million years I wish that you being gone from here was a dream! Missing Eric was one thing, but you man oh man I really miss you!! You always were able to keep me grounded and looking forward, and now I feel completely lost!! I love you, to the moon and beyond Merle misses you as well, I see him struggle and do my best to make everything as normal as I can. Love you, miss you and know that one day we will see each other again!! Love you ❤️
I missed you at Christmas! Not being woke up early telling me it is Christmas is something so odd to me, and I guess something I need to get used to. I miss you sweetie, more than you will ever know, the days aren’t the same, and the nights aren’t either! Not hearing you in the kitchen helping Merle or fixing his lunch is something I never will get used to! I love you, a whole lot! To the moon and beyond!
The past few days I really really miss you!! Seems as though the days seem to run together lately, but hopefully that will change. The guys all miss you and still talk about you, makes my heart smile that you made such an impact on them. Merle has been busy but that is good for him, he talks about you all the time, the only regret he has is not adopting you. We went over to Spokane this past weekend, got to meet DC’s oldest son and he is nice a little shy but who isn’t at his age. Still haven’t done anything with your room and in all honesty I don’t think we ever will, that is and will always be your room. Time keeps moving forward and I try to, especially now but I am seriously trying my best. I love you sis, to the moon and beyond!! Always have and always will!!
You are so missed!! I was out weeding the flower bed in front yesterday and boy is your rose bush getting big! It has a ton of blooms in it again this year, the only thing different is you aren’t here. I have been thinking about you a whole lot lately, even took you a rose this past weekend. I love you more than you will ever know!!
I am really missing you today, but that isn’t new. I’m still trying to get through the pain and heartache of you being gone. I know that it takes time, I am just here dealing with life day to day and trying to figure things out. Your room is 99% complete, next weekend I will get the mattress for the bed and it will be completed. I left everything on the walls, I just cannot fathom taking any of it down. It is cold here, the fog and the bitterness of the colder weather has hit and I was not ready for it, never have been. I still talk to you each and every morning and night, I am still adjusting and trying to figure things out. Merle….i cannot honestly say how he is other than what he tells me and I know that he is deeply hurting, I keep wishing that you would come back and give him a hug (the big bear ones that you always gave us), and hold him just so that he will be okay. Things with me are ok, we are taking what the doctor says needs to be done and do that and just wait to see if it helps. I love you, probably more than you ever realized but I will always carry you with me and know that with each thing that I do so are you. Tonight when I say my prayers I will also say one for you, nothing new there it is something that I have always done. Keep your sweet huge smile, sing your Elvis songs, dance and know that we are right there with you. Love you, miss you, and will forever be ever so thankful for you!!
I have really been missing you and wishing that you were here!! I am ok just mainly going through the motions each and every day; Merle he misses you so very much!! The guys came up as usual today, it is Tim’s birthday today and he sat and talked about you and cried, broke my heart. The weather is slowly changing now and although it is nice it isn’t as good as it was with you here. I went out and weeded it all out, your rose bush is almost ready to bloom, I am trying to take good care of it for you and honestly I always talk to you when I am out there with it. Merle says that he misses having you here, he really misses you giving him a hug when he gets home. I got my three wheeled motorcycle endorsement yesterday, and I look forward to riding the bike this summer other than wishing more than anything you were here!! I love you sis, I hope that you feel me giving you a hug every night, it has been just two months short of you being gone and to be completely honest I really really miss you, you shouldn’t have left before me. But I know it is ok you are the very first person that I want a huge hug from once I get there. I love you and give Juli and Eric a hug from me!! Love you!!