Sarah Marie Jones

From Rebecca Tierney:
Oh Allana, I’m so sorry. While I didn’t know Sarah well, she was a bright light I was drawn to and she was my favorite and the one I always wanted to chat and hang out with at your parties in the early days.  She made you feel welcome and like you’ve known her for awhile. Your family is what all families should strive to be. So much support and friendship and togetherness and the love amongst you all is truly palpable. The way you all were cohesive and thick as thieves as a blended family was so impressive because it was always about the love of the kids and what was best for them…all generations of them. Sarah‘s tribute video was absolutely beautiful and displayed the immense love you all share and the full life she led.  The last song wrecked me and was so fitting. She was truly beautiful. To have this amount of photos to document your life shows how cherished and loved she is. To be this loved is a blessing and a gift. And how much you all are together living and loving life to the fullest. That’s what we all dream of.  She was an auntie extraordinaire. Sarah was central to your family unit and I know her passing leaves a gaping hole that can’t be filled. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. Sending you all love and strength. ❤️

There are so many memories I cherish but my favorite ones were when Pepper, Grace and I were little our favorite thing was lala texting us asking if we wanted to spend the day with her and then have a sleepover. We would always get dinner at whole foods (specifically pizza) and ALWAYS had to get a sweet treat of some sort. Lala would put on whatever music we wanted, cuss words and all, and we would all just sing our hearts out. One song in specific was Boyz-n-the-Hood. I remember asking her if we could say the bad words and she would tell us “your with lala go for it” little pepper in the back would sing those parts extra loud and it would make Lala laugh so hard. Her laugh was the most contagious laugh which made us laugh even harder. I remember going home the next morning after every sleep over to tell my parents that the dogs ate a better breakfast than we did. We would have cereal while her dogs would get a 4 course meal. Still makes me laugh til this day. As I grew older and started to become a moody teenager she would still invite me to sleepovers even though she knew I was growing out of it. I wish I could go back and take every opportunity to get those sleepovers. I wish we could have had one more sleepover with my sisters, Belly and I. Lala was so full of light. She stood so confident and I like to think we were so similar in the way of we both didn’t let anyone walk all over us. We have the same sassy ness and spunk. As I was packing to move to our new house here in North Dakota, I was going through my old makeup. I found a glittery highlight that she had given me when I was little. I had this gut feeling that I should keep it instead of throw it away (this was before I got the call that day) so i kept it and im so glad I did even though its a small thing it’s something I cherish. Every hug would transfer glittery makeup and keeping it reminds me of every i love you and hug . I always loved putting makeup on like Lala when I was little. I looked up to her beauty. Lala would have went to hell and back for all of us. She was such a loyal person to her family no matter what. I’m so happy I got my last hug and I love you Christmas Eve and I will forever live my life to the fullest just like my Auntie Lala.