Beautiful

Two years after her death, woman gives
family wonderful .....,.....A woman who died more than two years ago
has given her family an incredible post-humous Christmas gift. Brenda Schmitz, wife and mother of four,
passed away in September 2011 after a battle
with ovarian cancer. She was 46. A month before she died, Schmitz wrote a letter
addressed to a Des Moines, Iowa, radio station
and instructed a friend to wait to mail it until her
husband, David, had fallen in love again. The station, Star 102.5, invited David, who
recently got engaged, into the studio last week
to share the letter with him. “When you are in receipt of this letter, I will have
already lost my battle to ovarian cancer,”
Brenda wrote in the letter. “I am writing this
letter to be sent to you by a dear friend who has
instructions to do so when it was the time. I had
to type this because I can hardly type anymore because of my shakiness. I told her once my
loving husband David had moved on in his life
and had met someone to share his life with
again, to mail this letter to all of you at the
station.” "As I was thinking about my last months on
earth," she continued, "I told David my wishes
after I was gone that I believed he'd follow
through with the attitude and courage I know he
possesses, what a great husband and father he
is. I know all of this is extremely hard on him. He is the one making the best decisions from
here on out for my family and ultimately finding
a caring and compassionate woman in time to
help raise the boys. She must be quite a lady." Every year, the radio station solicits Christmas
wish letters from listeners, picks the best and,
with the help of sponsors, grants them. Brenda's first wish for "David's new lifelong
partner" was "a day, or better yet, a week of
pampering, in all aspects of her life. ... She
deserves it." "Thank you," she added. "I love you, whoever
you are." Brenda also asked for a "magical trip" for the
family of 8, and a "night out full of drinks, food
and fun" for her cancer doctors at Mercy
Medical Hospital. Local businesses chipped in to help the station
grant all of Brenda's wishes, including the trip —
a four-day vacation in Disney World. "In more than 20 years of granting Christmas
wishes, we’ve never received a wish quite like
the one we received from Brenda Schmitz," the station wrote on its website. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the room when we
got [the letter]," station manager Scott Allen told the Des Moines Register. “It’s not surprising," David said of his wife's
posthumous surprise. "The last year and a half
she’s shown so many signs that she’s [here]."