Emily Neal Warden

Emily Susan N. Warden passed away on March 8, 2025.  She was the beloved wife of Charles Warden for forty-four years, a strong mother of two strong, happy daughters. and three beautiful loving grandchildren. She was Irish on her father’s side and Roma on her mother’s side. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas seventy-five years ago and Texan through and through and always Irish in her heart. She met Charles on Veterans Day, 1978 and never left his side. They were married on the first day of Spring, 1981. They were holding hands when she passed. She was an artist, musician, songwriter, author, poet, and gardener. Above all was her love of gardening, “A keeper of gardens a handful of seeds, sunlight and water and dragonwood trees.”  The happiest years of her life were spent on one small acre in the Sierra called Dragonwood. She moved to Paradise, California in 2014. She lost her home and all the precious possessions in the fire that burned Paradise. She managed to endure. She lost her oldest daughter to illness a year later. She endured. She moved to Oroville in 2020 and lived reclusive until her passing. She wished to share her favorite poem and wished the blessings of life to all.

                                   “The Path”

  Along a winding shaded path

 As twilight deepens into night,

 The trees begin their evening song

 And from the branches fairies come

 To guide me with their glowing light.

Now strolling down this magic path

 Where flowers only bloom at night,

I watch the fairies tender care

 Of blossoms in the pale moonlight.

 A flicker here… a glimmer there

 Of wings a-flutter on the air,

 From hollow trunk and mushroom top

 The fairy folk observe my walk,

 And as I pass beyond the woods

 Into a glade, I hear

 The music of the pipes and flute

 Come drifting to my ears.

Emily N. Warden

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