Man Finds Handwritten Note His Late Wife Left Him Inside Checkbook

By Ryan Tofil March 5, 2015 at 9:22am

Journalist Cliff Sims recently wrote about a pretty amazing story featuring a Mississippi man discovering a heartfelt note left by his late wife.

The two had been married for more than 60 years, but sadly, she passed away in Jan. 2015, at the age of 83.

A short time after her passing, Jimmy Breland found this note from his late wife Billie hidden in their checkbook.

“Please don’t cry because I died! Smile because I lived! Know that I’m in a happy place! Know that we will meet again! I’ll see you there!”

Perhaps the most interesting part of this story is that Jimmy and Billie are the grandparents of Cliff Sims, the author who originally wrote the piece about this amazing couple on Yellow Hammer.

Sims shared the note on Facebook where it has gathered over 4,000 “likes” and nearly 2,000 shares.

“My Mimi passed away this week, but left this in her checkbook for my Grandaddy to find,” he wrote. “They were married over 60 years. Wow.”

It’s hard to imagine what life would be like after losing your best friend of sixty years. But somehow, Billie knew just what Cliff would need to lift his spirits after her passing.

A way to let him know that she was “okay” and that they would be together again one day.

What a beautiful testament of faith and love.

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Ryan Tofil lived all of his life in Western New York before graduating college and moving to Arizona in 2014 to work for the nonprofit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

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Ryan Tofil's experience on The Western Journal goes back to 2014 when he was an intern for the non-profit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. These websites eventually combined and became one of the most popular lifestyle websites in the world, at one point being ranked inside the top 200 websites in America by Alexa.com. Liftable.com lives on today as a section of The Western Journal. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

Outside of work, Ryan loves to play chess, sports, and video games; usually while smoking a cigar. He is a proud bird-owner and aquarium aficionado, and always jokes about needing concealed carry permits for his fists, despite only having been in one fight in his life and losing quite badly. His claim to fame is having possibly been the worst NCAA baseball player in the country, riding the bench for a DIII team that went 3-31. He loved every second of it.

Birthplace

Western New York

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A.S., Communication, Jamestown Community College

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Phoenix, Arizona

Languages Spoken

English, barely. Even worse at Spanish.

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Video Games, Sports, Romance, Chess, E-Commerce, Okay not Romance