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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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Kris Hindale Olenicki posted a condolence
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Dearest Mare, Jimmy, Boo, Annie and David,
My deepest sympathies for the loss of your wonderful mother. I hope you will be comforted by your memories of her and knowing that she touched many people's lives - including mine.
To me she was Suzanne Levis - that her middle and last names = jeans always made me smile. "Mrs. Lynch" was eternally interesting and exotic to me. She was a Flight Attendant when it was a glamorous profession. She let all of you do your own thing – never seeming to “mother” you too much. She was always willing to go with the flow and encouraged our adventures and never asked too many questions. She would bail any of us out of jail – one time only offer (and unbelievably I didn’t need to use her offer) and then send you back on your way. She showed me that you could love your kids, trust them and let them go their own way, and most likely, they wouldn’t get into trouble. She was so different from all the moms I knew, including mine. And that made her fascinating to me. Suzanne Lee Vize Lynch Zimmerman will be in my heart and my memories always. And every time I see you, I see something of her in you. Annie, you look so much like her, Boo you have her voice and temperament. Jim you have her hair and her funny sense of humor. And every time I see you David, I think of your mom sitting in the chair by the door in the living room, pregnant with you and using her baby belly as a table and writing a check. And Mary Sue – you have everything wonderful about your mother, her compassion, her ability to take care of others, and her fierce love of her family and children. Nope – I’ll never forget Suzanne. After knowing her for 45 years, I only regret I didn’t know her better and wish we would have gone to Switzerland anyway…
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Elizabeth Besch uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, October 15, 2016
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Suzanne modeling her new outfit and jewelry presents on her birthday 8/16/15 at Sunrise of Buffalo Grove.
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Elizabeth Besch posted a condolence
Saturday, October 15, 2016
I am Suzanne’s third-born, middle child, Elizabeth. Mom was also a third-born middle child so we SO understood each other. I wish to honor her here in a way that would be pleasing to her. I hope and pray that I succeed as I share a few of the things she taught me.
Approx. 20 years ago or maybe more, Mom received the gift of her faith back. I listened to Mom talk about her memories of religion pre-Vatican 2. As she attempted to re-learn her Catholicism I became hungry to learn as well. Mom quickly learned that while there were some major changes to the Mass, the teachings of the faith had remained the same. The joy that overcame her was contagious. Some days we spoke of nothing else but religion as my hunger to learn from her was overwhelming me. I only went thru to Catholic junior high and wasn’t paying close enough attention at the time to really learn my faith as an adult.
Mom had so many answers for me that she learned in Catholic high school that still apply today. When Mom didn’t have an answer for me, she told me she didn’t know and that we may never know while we are still on earth and just to try to accept it as a mystery. I loved that. She patiently and lovingly taught me so much!! I came to understand that I have no right to question why my Lord allows certain things to happen on His earth and trust that someday it will all make perfect sense. I also learned that God gave “man” free will and He wants us to use it to acknowledge and honor Him, even when we don’t feel or understand it. Mom said that she believed that the most pleasing prayers to God come from little children; and also from when we choose to pray even while we don’t feel anything and we use our God-given free will to pray anyways.
Mom told me that in the past she had the hardest time trying to understand the suffering on earth and especially of innocents. But as her love, trust and respect of our Lord blossomed again, it allowed her to be at peace with it knowing that God allowed his own beloved son Jesus, who was perfectly pure and innocent, to suffer for our salvation.
Mom shared that what she truly desired was to do what she could to help obtain heaven for those who had no chance at all. Mom shared with me many years ago that she had offered herself up to Jesus to suffer for the salvation of souls in union with Jesus' suffering on the cross. I think it is referred to as “Redemptive Suffering“ and Mom said that it was hard and scary for her to make this offer because she didn’t do physical pain very well. I believe that Jesus granted Mom her most loving offer.
Mom suffered with Alzheimer’s for at least ten years and probably way more. The disease caused her unfathomable mental horrors and painful loneliness every day for at least the last two years; and on and off again (I think) for another eight years or more. I believe that this may be how Jesus chose to grant Mom her fear-filled but sincere desire. Mom told me after our Dad died that she begged Jesus to let her suffer his purgatory for him because she felt she was stronger than him. I don’t know how many other requests she made to Jesus like this and I think I remember asking her to please stop now because it scared me so.
I think that Jesus loved Mom so much that he wanted her surrounded by her loved ones (those last days especially) as she atoned for not only her sins, but for the sins of others. I think He allowed her to stay on this earth to do this suffering so that she was not always completely alone like in purgatory. Mom shared that she believed in and embraced purgatory’s purification process and explained that, as Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27). I like to think that she may be one of the very few people who went straight to heaven because she did suffer so here on earth. I hope that someday I become as obedient to God as Mom did so that I can be blessed and purified enough to understand it all in heaven.
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Sunday, October 9, 2016
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Marlene Vize posted a condolence
Friday, October 7, 2016
I'm thinking of you all today and will be tomorrow, too. Know I am including all of you in my prayers. I can't help but smile, though, thinking of Sue and Paul having one of their phone conversations again, only this time, soul to soul in Heaven with all their siblings included. My, what a conversation that must be!
Love and God Bless, Marlene Vize (Aunt Marlene)
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Marcia (Beil) Parkinson posted a condolence
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Dear Mary Sue (Moo), Jim (Jimmy), Liz (Boo), Anne (Annie), and David (Stoopy), my heart aches for all of you, and I am so very sorry I am not able to be at your sweet mother's wake/funeral this weekend.
There are so many special memories I have of your mom as I was growing up in Morton Grove. She was truly a second mother to me since I spent so much time at your house as a child. She always treated me like I was one of her own, and I LOVED being part of your family! She was so giving and loving and FUN. She taught me how to play "The Spinning Song" on the piano and other "ditties" that I still remember how to play today. She invited me to many family events, including the annual Choir Picnic and Bozo's Circus. I thought it was so cool that she was a nurse, and one of my fondest memories is when I cut my thumb pretty badly at your house, and she bandaged it up so nicely with white gauze--not just a "Band-Aid"! I remember she called my mom to tell her what happened, but I didn't want to go home, so I stayed and she bought McDonald's for dinner. What a TREAT!
I also remember she had a passion for beauty in nature....she loved roses, plants, and trees. She also loved music and singing. She would sing all the time and had such a beautiful voice. She was definitely a free spirit who loved life, and I am so very blessed to have known her and will always keep her memories alive.
May you all find strength over the next couple of days and the many days ahead.
I love you.
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Gerard Vize posted a condolence
Thursday, October 6, 2016
My deepest condolences to all of aunt Suzan's family and friends! Aunt Suzan or Aunt Trudy as I liked too call her has finally reached her rewards in Heaven. God Bless,Amen.
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Linda (Vize) Wilson posted a condolence
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Mary Sue, Jimmy, Elizabeth, Annie Laurie, and David....I am So very sorry for your loss! I was never very what you call "close" with Aunt Suzanne, but I remember her as a beautiful, soft spoken woman who NEVER had a bad word to say about anyone. She was so sweet and will be missed. My condolences to each and every one of you in your time of sorrow. ~~Heaven gained another beautiful angel!~~
Love, Linda
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Renee posted a condolence
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
My other mother has officially moved on to a better place. She has been in and out of our reality for a while now but the sweet other mother I was lucky enough to gain, when I married her son, never faded. She accepted her fate of forgetting those she loved and embraced the moments she was able to remember anyone. She continued her selfless, loving ways and quietly asked our names when she would forget. She would laugh and speak in that soft, soothing voice I could not help but love. I have many beautiful memories with this super special, entertaining, beautiful woman that I will cherish forever. Most recently, as her memory slipped away, I enjoyed watching her with her great grandsons. Babies gave her such great joy! She had the most beautiful, calming voice as she would sing "You are so Beautiful" to my grandson. Always the protector, she would change from sweet to fierce in a heartbeat if she thought anyone might harm any of her loved ones. As I said, she was selfless, she protected us and loved us, whether we were 'inherited' or not. I watched as each of her children held her hand during her final days and could not help but picture her holding those hands when they were small children. What a wonderful Mother she was to them. I am thankful I had this life with my other mother. How lucky am I to have two Mothers that love me so, when some get none?
I will carry that beautiful laugh in my heart forever. I miss you, Mom. Yet, I am so happy you are finally at peace.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
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Roberta Lazarz posted a condolence
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
You are all in my prayers as you mourn the passing of such a wonderful lady. Grammy Sue was very sweet and kind. Each of my children have special memories of her patching up their boo boos at different times of their lives. From smashed windows and falling down stairs to flipping over bikes on a ramp. I personal am grateful to her for speaking about being spiritual to Adam, Im not sure he would have had his first communion without her. we are all blessed to have her touch our lives, she will be missed.