Jacqueline "Jackie" Grimble
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Jackie's obituary
Before the obituary... An excerpt from my Facebook post:
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most complex, deadly, and treatment-resistant cancers. We found a GBM (brain tumor) in November 2021 in my momma's brain. 🙁
It is estimated that more than 10,000 individuals in the United States will succumb to glioblastoma every year.
My beautiful, sweet Momma succumbed late Sunday night, Feb 12th to this deadly cancer. Stupid brain tumor.
The five-year survival rate for glioblastoma patients is only 6.8 percent, and the average length of survival for glioblastoma patients is estimated to be only 8 months.
My Mom's first GBM was removed in Nov 2021. The second one returned less than 1 year later.. around Sept/Oct 2022 and she passed a short 4 months later. I'm heartbroken and devastated to lose my homegirl, my brunch buddy, my "dancing-on-tables" partner and travel mama extraordinaire!
Survival rates and mortality statistics for GBM have been virtually unchanged for decades. No treatments have succeeded in significantly extending patient lives beyond a few extra months.
In addition to being life-threatening, GBM – and its harsh treatments – inflict devastation upon the brain, which controls cognition, mood, behavior, and every function of every organ and body part.
Many patients will lose their ability to work, drive, and a host of other functions that contribute to one’s sense of self and independence. This happened to my sweet Mama.
Glioblastoma is also one of the more expensive cancers to treat, often leaving patients and families with major financial hardship on top of the burdens of the disease.
Sharing a quote from Ron Denmon, he told me... "Scars on your Hearts are like bowls, the deeper they are the more Love they can hold." The loss of my sweet momma is a deep scar that can be filled with love. Thank you Ron, you are so right.
Continued prayers welcome and received! Prayer works! I'm sad that I now have another cancer loss in my life to "relate" to others. So soon after losing my BFF Gina Shaw Zacher to cancer as well, sometimes life just doesn't seem fair.
As my momma said regularly the past 3 months... "It is what it is Jojo. I'm in God's hands now..." Yes, sweet momma, you are with God now, Forever in my bones, soul and heart. I love you.
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Surrounded by family, Jacqueline Annette Grimble, passed away peacefully on Superbowl Sunday, February 12, 2023. Born August 10, 1951, the fourth of her deceased parents' five children, she is survived by her husband Kenneth Grimble, sisters Roberta Gross (Russell), Rose Pendelton (Marshall), and her brother Roy (Tony) Nunes. She is also survived by her daughters, Valerie Kathleen Joyce Cheatham and Josephine Angela LaVerne Cheatham, both of Los Angeles, and Kyiete Lei Cheatham of Las Vegas. Jackie was everyone’s favorite sister, cousin, and friend, a fun-loving, action-oriented Christian woman, who gave as good as she got. She lived her life with Christ's guidance and nurtured all accordingly. Everyone who knew Jackie loved her dearly.
She attended the Russell Grammar School, the Cambridge High and Latin School, Cal Stage Fullerton and Fuller Seminary in Pasadena where she earned her MFT, earning degrees to perform her job as a clinical psychologist for nearly thirty years, a position she served with vigor and successfully positive directions. Beyond her role as counselor, Jackie loved to dance, travel, and attend to her extensive loving family’s needs.
She was a therapist in all she did and loved. At times, her own children had to say... "Mom, can you stop being a therapist and just be a Mom?!" And she would! An excellent and attentive listener, Jackie was amazing.
She is grandmother to Joseph Calmelat, Kyrie Janai Pirtle, Devyn Jánell and Jailyn Cheatham, great grandmother to Malachi and Eli Calmelat, and Aunt Jackie to Michael Nunes, Mariel Gilbert (Samuel), Acacia Nunes, Darrell Nunes (Ana Rodriguez-Nunes), Kamaal Nunes (Stacey), and great-aunt to Alexis, Sydney, and Kayleigh Nunes, Britney Engelbrecht (Eli), Jason Nunes, Laila Nunes, and Remi and Asa Gilbert. Jackie is also survived by her 106 year-old Uncle Cecil Provost, and first cousins Frederick Provost, Maria McKiernan (Paul), William Henry Daly III, Karen Anita Morris, Melvin Daly (Althea), and Vida Daly, George (Ceronne) Daly, and Viana Daly. She leaves a host of other cousins, lovingly Fred Matt Morris, Pattie Cox Zamore, Simone Joye Zamore Curbelo, Judith Bourne, Kai Marcin, and so many more.
The family will host a Memorial Service in California on March 4th, 2023 at 10AM at Pasadena Church and another for Jackie’s east coast family in Boston on June 10, 2023. In lieu of flowers, please donate to help with airfare, hotel and additional transportation costs for the immediate family, thank you!
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