Message of Gratitude.  To have known Carrie Ella Strickland as a mother is to have known unconditional love.  That love and her memory will remain in our hearts and spirits forever…gently urging us to pursue our life’s purpose…to live life to the fullest each and everyday.  Mom, it was a privilege to have had you as a parent.  To all of you that reached out to us in love, prayers and all the many known and unknown gestures of generosity, we extend our deepest thanks.  To those of you who were touched by Carrie’s finger of love, we ask that when her smile crosses your mind from time to time that you smile a smile back to her.