Ken VanLieu,REALTOR

To all of Ken’s friends and family:

The light of my life, an avid outdoorsman and water sports lover, Ken had a way of bringing joy and sunshine into life. Always ready with a warm smile and a joke to brighten the day, Ken’s loving heart was open to everyone. Ken loved animals and was always bringing home a stray cat or dog to stay. When we lived on a pond, he became the duck whisperer with a flock of ducks following him around the backyard. He fed the birds, squirrels, and chipmunks along with the occasional fox. He lent a helping hand to anyone who asked. He served his country willingly and with great pride. He served a tour of duty in South Korea in Communications during the Vietnam War.

With great sadness and a very broken heart, I am writing to let you know that Ken passed away sometime in the early hours of 29 March 2024. He will be sorely missed for his laughter, his kindness, his wisdom and his loving ways. Ken was preceded in death by his father, Kenneth VanLieu, Sr., his mother, Helen, and his sister, Martha. I was proud to be called his wife.

Many of you may know that Ken had health issues that worsened beginning in September, 2019 with knee replacement surgery. He did not recover well from that surgery and was frustrated that the surgery limited his ability to participate in many of his much loved activities and hobbies.

Life is going to be much quieter, sadder, and drearier without Ken.

The Paulding County, Georgia Coroner has requested an autopsy since Ken’s passing was very unexpected. Following Ken’s wishes, current plans are for his cremation at a local funeral home (not yet selected) followed by a celebration of life to be planned for early Summer 2024. More to come on arrangements pending completion of the autopsy.

Please join with me in a few minutes of silence or prayer (as guided by your faith) to wish Ken well as he makes his way to heaven to join his heavenly family.

“This is my great-grandma, Christina Levant Platt at age 100, weeding her garden. She was born into slavery. Her “owner” was a wife that taught my great grandma to read and write secretly, which was illegal and quite dangerous at that time for both of them. She learned to read the Bible.

She had 11 children, she lost two, one son was one of the first black attorneys in US. She sent the 4 boys to college in Boston. Exceptional in those days.

She passed 5yrs before I was born but I love her as if I knew her. Family tells me she would say “ I put prayers on my children’s children’s heads”.

This apparently worked💜

Around April 12, 1861, Christina was at the 1st battle of the CIVIL WAR, in Fort Sumter at Charleston Bay, South Carolina, working in the cotton fields.

She said “the sky was black as night” from cannonball fire. She saw a man decapitated by a cannonball.

She was the water girl for the other slaves as a young girl and “ the lookout” for the slaves in the fields for the approaching overseer on horseback as they secretly knelt and prayed for their freedom.

She would watch for the switching tail of the approaching horse and would alert the slaves to rise up and return to picking cotton before he saw them.

She eventually married a Native American from the Santee Tribe. John C, Platt.

After freedom, Christina insisted upon taking her children north as she knew they would not get a good education in the south, and that’s all she cared about. She died at age 101 in 1944, where she and her husband had built a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, the first black family to move there.

With great respect, I honor my great grandmother.
So much more I could say about this miraculous woman. She gave me much strength in my hard times.

Whenever I thought I was having a hard day, I would think of her and shrug it off.

Thank you for reading one story of millions. 💜 💜
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