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In Justin's own words:
The four things your friends say about you: ?
Easy-Going
Sweet
Intelligent
Good listener
What are you most passionate about?
Friends and family......I mean 90 % of anything I do is with them. I mean whether its going bowling on leagues or just staying home and playing card games around the dining room table. They don't mean the world to me they are the world to me.
What is the most important quality that you are looking for in another person?
The same love and passion towards family and friends. I hope they have a close relationship with their family and friends.
What are three of your BEST life-skills?
Communicating my innermost thoughts and feelings
Managing my finances
Using humor to make friends laugh
Other than your parents, who has been the most influential person in your life and why?
I would say there are two people. Both are my sisters. I am the oldest of us three, but growing up I wasn't the typical big brother. We have been there for each other through thick and thin. They are both honest with me, and I definitely wouldn't be the same without them both in my life. I love them.
What are the THREE things for which you are MOST thankful?
My life, it could be better. But it could be alot worse. Sometimes you gotta think about how bad things could be, to see how good you got it.
My mom, I mean shes my mom and friend. Even if shes down to her last dime, she will still give her two cents. I love her though.
My job, it doesn't pay great and its not glamorous. But I have one, which is a step above what others are going through.
Other than your appearance, what is the first thing that people notice about you?
My gentle character, I guess, I have been told that I couldn't hurt a fly.
What is the ONE thing that people DON'T notice about you right away that you WISH they WOULD?
My past, so they can understand how I became the person I am, as people we judge people too soon before we know anything about them.
How do you typically spend your leisure time?
Watching tv with my niece or bowling with my friends. Or just trying to meet people, hopefully that someone special.
Describe the last book that you read and enjoyed. What was it about? What did you like most about it?
The phone book? Everyone I know is in it......it tells me exactly what i wanted to know.
What are five things that you "can't live without?"
Family
Friends
Bowling
Air
Water
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my own paradise
this was found in one of justin's files:
there is a place in my mind that i go
here i spend most of my time.
with the sunshine and beautiful scenery
its the perfect paradise!
Everyone i know is there
they are there representing their roles in my life
some people are the blades of grass
some the most amazing flowers!
in this midst of this paradise stands two trees
their branches reaching out
like two lovers holding hands.
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our very own angel among us
Justin was a very happy baby since the day he was born. He was such a joy to us, Dennis and Carol Wiley. He grew quickly it seemed and was so content and quiet. When his 2 younger sisters were born he was so proud and so protective even though he was so young. He started kindergarten at 5 and the bus driver and teacher could not believe he was old enough to go to school. He loved t-ball but really enjoyed midnight bowling at Olney when we enrolled us all to bowl. He always excelled at school and made great grades. He enjoyed life.
As a teenager he grew to 5ft 9in which made him so happy! He attended high school in Farina, IL, and was such a comfort to both parents and now even stepparents. When he was to enter his first year of high school we lost his step dad in a car wreck on the same road Justin wrecked on He and his sisters helped us all thru that terrible tragedy of his step dad’s death. justin had 1 best friend that stuck closer than any bother could have- john anspach. they did everything together and his bst friends brother david was also so close to justin. josh crain was also his good friend but when josh married they did not spend much time together but josh remained in jsutin;s thoughts. justin ahd been the one to give me away when i married his stepdad dean wimberly and when 3 years later after the death of my dean i married dennis perry and asked justin to give me away again andhe laughed and said 'i keep giving her away and she just keeps coming back" we all had a good laugh out of that one!
Justin went to work at save-a-lot where his best friend had worked and worked there for 2 years and then left to go work at Schutts where his best friend then worked. It seemed it was following this special friend! Then he left to go to college and after 1.5 years he called me to ask if he could move back home- he was so upset to find college kids can be kind but a lot of sports jocks can be so cruel and he was made fun of a lot. He always cried when he heard the country song "don't laugh at me". He knew too well what that song meant.
At age 17 he had come to me and told me that he had given his life to Jesus Christ by his bedside. I was so happy because until then he was mad at me making all my children go to church with me.
He moved home and went back to work at Schutts and was such a loving son! He was like the rest of us he had his faults but he took them to Jesus.
He had lots of good friends, in elementary school his best friend was Joey Conrad and in high school his two best friends were John Anspach and Josh Crain. John remained a best friend and the two bowled together twice a week Justin had a friend he had asked me to remember in prayer and his name was Randy, I think.
He enjoyed bowling with his dad and fishing with his step dad. On Oct. 1, 2002, Natasha gave birth to Justin's closest friend on earth, Ashley Brianne Miller. This baby was the apple of "monkey J's" eyes. At an early age she started calling him "monkey j" because he had given her a monkey that made sounds and he always imitated the sounds too. They were always together even if he was just watching baseball she would knock on his bedroom door and say "monkey j let me come in" and he would open his door and she would crawl up in his bed and lay and watch TV and he would read her books and sometimes when it was time for him to go to sleep for work or when he had the flu she would stand outside his door and cry because monkey j would not let her in.
Ashley is 2 and she has had a terrible time dealing with that something happened to him because we were all crying a lot. After 3 weeks she had started talking about him again and she now says when we ask her where he is that he is in heaven and is an angel. He loved her so much and sometimes she listened better than all of us grownups to him.
He still remained so close to his sisters and would always take up for the underdog. He loved Jesus but a lot of times had not matured yet with the lord but he desired to and maybe he was more than of all us and we just did not see it. He said days before he left that he wished we all could just get along and love each other, God help us to have a heart like that. He had his faults as we all do and once he said "Mom, you are way up here with God", and raised his hands way up high, "and I am still way down here" and he lowered his hands to his waist. But now my son is way up here and I am way down here.
I know maturity in Jesus comes with age and/or a real close walk daily and daily bible study. He always read his Bible with me (most of the times I asked) and I know we talked often of how God was dealing with our faults and how He was changing us for His Glory!
Justin was a peacemaker and his sisters Nikki and Natasha and he were so very close. It was such a shock when the news came to us that he had been taken in a car accident! Our hearts all broke but Jesus has never forsaken us and about 3 weeks prior to his separation from earth he had told me that he took out extra life insurance so I would be taken care of in the event he left earth. He also told me he knew he would be with Jesus! That is such a comfort to know I will be with him again someday!
So at the beginning where it says he passed away- he still lives- just in his eternal home. This life is not our home- we are only strangers in this foreign land and our real home is heaven if we are prepared when death knocks on our door. Justin's prayer today would be that whoever reads this will fall on their knees and ask Jesus into their life before it is too late! Then go into the entire world and preach the Gospel of Jesus!
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