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In Memory of
Jacqueline Ann
Tyner (Burke)
Tyner (Burke)
1963 - 2015
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Obituary for Jacqueline Ann Tyner (Burke)
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Jacqueline Ann (Burke) Tyner, 51, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
Born in North Tonawanda, NY on November 13, 1963, she was the daughter of the late James and Berniece (Hoffamn) Burke.
One of the benefits of having Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with the t315i mutation expanding to include metastatic myeloid sarcomas is that you can say whatever you want. At least that was Jacqueline Tyner’s explanation, expressed a little more succinctly: I’m dying; I can say what I want. But to be candid, if impending death gave her license to speak her mind, then Jackie had been operating without a license for years. We never had to wonder what she thought; Jacqueline spread her praise, love, criticism, fear (what little fear she had), excitement, and laughter without hesitation. That expressiveness is what drew so many people to her. Her honesty healed us, wounded us, and led us to trust her. And it’s the one thing she most wanted to change about herself. The ability to be honest is a difficult gift, sometimes hard to wield, and one that she worked to restrain.
It’s odd that we’ve all known Jackie as the energetic, outgoing, perpetually smiling woman that she was; as a child, she hid behind her mother whenever company came over, clinging to her mother’s leg. The youngest of eight children, it seems natural that Jackie would have been used to crowds. She wasn’t. The first time she skipped school was in kindergarten. Her mother, Bernice Burke, dropped a crying Jacqueline off at the elementary school, just around the block, and when Bernice got home, Jacqueline was in the doorway waiting for her. She’d run out of the school and through neighbors’ back yards to escape the terror of all the unfamiliar people at school.
Somewhere along the way, Jacqueline changed. She grew to love being around people. Anyone. Everyone. She remembered faces, names, birthdays, births, weddings, anniversaries. She knew who was in love, who was struggling, who was lonely, where people were going on vacation and who they were going with. Her mind was not filled with the clutter of self-doubt or fear, and whenever she entered a room full of people, she was completely free to encounter others as they were. To see them, to hear everything they said and to remember it. Jacqueline was the quintessential “people person.”
As a girl, Jackie’s faith in God was already strong, and she determined that she’d like to be a nun. Thankfully for her husband and children, Jackie changed her mind. However, the love she had for people was always intertwined with her love for God. She had an unwavering faith that we are loved deeply by our creator, and that we have a purpose in this world far deeper than simply pursuing hour own dreams and goals. One of the verses that shaped Jackie’s life was from Isaiah 58.
If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
As much as she knew how, Jacqueline spent herself on behalf of others, and in the darkness of her leukemia, in the worst days of her suffering, there truly was a light that she could see, a faith that made healing in this world nothing more than a preference. She desired to live so she could continue enjoying the company of others, to experience and celebrate life with us. For Jackie, although she had a healthy fear of the dying process, she looked forward to what comes after death. In the end she thirsted for it as in a sun-scorched land. And now she is the one whose needs have been satisfied.
Besides her parents, Jackie is predeceased by brother, Dennis Burke, and sister, Michelle Burke. .
Left to cherish her memory are her loving husband, Randy Tyner, daughter, Karis Nolen and husband Joshua, son, Canaan Tyner and fiancée Christina O’Brien, grandson Jonah Nolen, siblings, James Burke and wife Barbara, Vince Burke and wife Maggie, Sandy Koprowski and husband Richard, Kevin Burke and wife Lisa Burke, and Patricia Romanko and husband Mark, and sister-in-law Sue Burke, along with many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Friends may call from 4pm-7pm on Friday, June 26, 2015 at Pine Knolls Alliance Church, 614 Gansevoort Rd, South Glens Falls, NY 12803.
Memorial service will be conducted at 9:30am on Saturday June 27, 2015 at the church.
Burial will follow the funeral service at Pine View Cemetery, Quaker Road, Queensbury.
Donations in Jackie’s memory may be made to Jacqueline Tyner Scholarship Fund c/o Glens Falls City Schools, 15 Quade Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801.
Arrangements are in the care of M.B. Kilmer Funeral home, 136 Main Street, South Glens Falls, NY 12803. To view Jackie’s Book of Memories and post online condolences, please visit www.kilmerfuneralhome.com.
Jacqueline Ann (Burke) Tyner, 51, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
Born in North Tonawanda, NY on November 13, 1963, she was the daughter of the late James and Berniece (Hoffamn) Burke.
One of the benefits of having Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with the t315i mutation expanding to include metastatic myeloid sarcomas is that you can say whatever you want. At least that was Jacqueline Tyner’s explanation, expressed a little more succinctly: I’m dying; I can say what I want. But to be candid, if impending death gave her license to speak her mind, then Jackie had been operating without a license for years. We never had to wonder what she thought; Jacqueline spread her praise, love, criticism, fear (what little fear she had), excitement, and laughter without hesitation. That expressiveness is what drew so many people to her. Her honesty healed us, wounded us, and led us to trust her. And it’s the one thing she most wanted to change about herself. The ability to be honest is a difficult gift, sometimes hard to wield, and one that she worked to restrain.
It’s odd that we’ve all known Jackie as the energetic, outgoing, perpetually smiling woman that she was; as a child, she hid behind her mother whenever company came over, clinging to her mother’s leg. The youngest of eight children, it seems natural that Jackie would have been used to crowds. She wasn’t. The first time she skipped school was in kindergarten. Her mother, Bernice Burke, dropped a crying Jacqueline off at the elementary school, just around the block, and when Bernice got home, Jacqueline was in the doorway waiting for her. She’d run out of the school and through neighbors’ back yards to escape the terror of all the unfamiliar people at school.
Somewhere along the way, Jacqueline changed. She grew to love being around people. Anyone. Everyone. She remembered faces, names, birthdays, births, weddings, anniversaries. She knew who was in love, who was struggling, who was lonely, where people were going on vacation and who they were going with. Her mind was not filled with the clutter of self-doubt or fear, and whenever she entered a room full of people, she was completely free to encounter others as they were. To see them, to hear everything they said and to remember it. Jacqueline was the quintessential “people person.”
As a girl, Jackie’s faith in God was already strong, and she determined that she’d like to be a nun. Thankfully for her husband and children, Jackie changed her mind. However, the love she had for people was always intertwined with her love for God. She had an unwavering faith that we are loved deeply by our creator, and that we have a purpose in this world far deeper than simply pursuing hour own dreams and goals. One of the verses that shaped Jackie’s life was from Isaiah 58.
If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
As much as she knew how, Jacqueline spent herself on behalf of others, and in the darkness of her leukemia, in the worst days of her suffering, there truly was a light that she could see, a faith that made healing in this world nothing more than a preference. She desired to live so she could continue enjoying the company of others, to experience and celebrate life with us. For Jackie, although she had a healthy fear of the dying process, she looked forward to what comes after death. In the end she thirsted for it as in a sun-scorched land. And now she is the one whose needs have been satisfied.
Besides her parents, Jackie is predeceased by brother, Dennis Burke, and sister, Michelle Burke. .
Left to cherish her memory are her loving husband, Randy Tyner, daughter, Karis Nolen and husband Joshua, son, Canaan Tyner and fiancée Christina O’Brien, grandson Jonah Nolen, siblings, James Burke and wife Barbara, Vince Burke and wife Maggie, Sandy Koprowski and husband Richard, Kevin Burke and wife Lisa Burke, and Patricia Romanko and husband Mark, and sister-in-law Sue Burke, along with many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Friends may call from 4pm-7pm on Friday, June 26, 2015 at Pine Knolls Alliance Church, 614 Gansevoort Rd, South Glens Falls, NY 12803.
Memorial service will be conducted at 9:30am on Saturday June 27, 2015 at the church.
Burial will follow the funeral service at Pine View Cemetery, Quaker Road, Queensbury.
Donations in Jackie’s memory may be made to Jacqueline Tyner Scholarship Fund c/o Glens Falls City Schools, 15 Quade Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801.
Arrangements are in the care of M.B. Kilmer Funeral home, 136 Main Street, South Glens Falls, NY 12803. To view Jackie’s Book of Memories and post online condolences, please visit www.kilmerfuneralhome.com.
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