On Sunday, September 22nd, 2024, Jeannie Sapp’s son Joseph wrote:
With heavy hearts, I would like to bring you all the news that my Mother, Miss Jeannie Sapp, has taken her last breath today at the age of 64.
Mother, if you can still hear me, I want you to know that you are the greatest woman I’ve ever met in my life and I’m proud to call you the only mother I’ll ever have, there’s just nothing that can replace your sweet heart.
I remember when you first took me out to the beach in California, we were checking up on dad to see how his diving trips were doing. You bought a loaf of bread for us so that we could feed the seagulls with bread crumbs, one of my first interactions with wildlife. After feeding them and as you were driving me home, I was curious as to why there was a flock of seagulls following us! We stopped at the gas station and I was shocked by all the seagulls following us from the beach, I asked you “Mommy, why are they following us” to which you replied “oh, looks like they want more bread crumbs!”
I remember sleeping by you every night in bed from the age of 7-12 cause I just had anxiety when I wasn’t around you. I remember saying our prayers every night “Now I lay me, down to sleep, I pray the lord, my soul to keep. Guardians watch me through the night, and wake me with the morning light… Amen”
I remember our ups and downs from the battle with your schizophrenia. Damn that illness, damn it for taking my mother from me for so long. I remember just crying hoping one day you will get better, until the tears faded away because I realized there was no cure for your illness and I just had to accept you. I became the one of the strongest people this Earth has seen from your illness, it taught me that the brain and love is an important part of our health. I remember finally crying after you told me that you want to see me graduate from high school and that all the nonsense would end. I was so proud of you. You watched me walk the stage.
I remember when I took you to the Tesla Gigafactory for the first time. Remember when you first walked through those front doors?! You were so proud of me! “A busy place building tomorrow’s technology” is what you said. It made me shed a tear. Remember when we got into that Model X and floored it? Our heads were just glued to the back of the seats and you were just smiling the whole time. 0-60 in two seconds, dopamine on tap…
I will always remember as I watched you take your last breath and look at me with your beautiful blue eyes as I held your hand. I remember walking into the hospital room to see you yesterday, every time I looked at you, you just smiled with joy.
If you can still hear me, I love you mamas, forever and always.
-“Son”
“Hey son, I love you”
“May your radiant energy of love and kindness forever flow through me, Mother.” – Joseph
Jeannie’s daughter, Monica Jackson wrote:
“I love you mommy and I am so glad you are now at peace in heaven, this life was not fair to you but now you can rejoice in heaven with your mother, father and brothers.
I will continue to watch over our family for you.”
A ceremony is not planned.
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