Contributions to the tribute of Elizabeth Biehl

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Wednesday

October

Visitation at Funeral Home

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Weigand Bros., Inc. Funeral Home

49 Hillside Ave.

Williston Park, New York, United States

Wednesday

October

Visitation

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Weigand Bros., Inc. Funeral Home

49 Hillside Ave.

Williston Park, New York, United States

Thursday

October

Final Resting Place

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Holy Rood Cemetery

Old Country Road

Westbury, New York, United States

Thursday

October

Mass

11:00 am - 11:45 am

Thursday, October 19, 2023

St. Marys RC Church

110 Bryant Ave.

Roslyn, New York, United States

Joseph Biehl posted a condolence

Monday, October 23, 2023

My mother’s life was centered on love. She adored her parents, Laurence and Elizabeth, and her extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins. She cherished her life-long friendships with those she met in Corpus Christi elementary school, St. Mary’s High School, St. Vincent’s Nursing School, as well as those she had the fortune to meet later in life. She was devoted to her husband Robert, with whom she celebrated their 62nd anniversary in early October of this year. Together, they brought into the world their four children: Laurence, Mary Ann, Joseph, and Robert. With the birth of her children, my mother left the nursing profession to devote herself full-time to her true calling: to love and celebrate life. Through the love of her son Robert, she welcomed another daughter, Emily, and then their three children – Maile, Sadie, and Charlie. Through the love of her son Joseph, she welcomed Marisa and their three children – Niccolo, Marcello, and Giuseppe. With each addition to her family, her heart grew larger. Every accomplishment was cheered, and every setback consoled. Time spent with her family and friends, enjoying each other’s company and being together, was the very purpose of life. It was the realization of heaven on earth. Yet my mother’s commitment to loving cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing her willingness to forgive. The human capacity for action and speech can be intimidating in its profundity. Our words and deeds determine the course of our relations; they make our world. But what we do cannot be undone, and the words we say cannot be unsaid. And joined with this irreversibility is an inherent unpredictability: no matter what we intend or hope for by the things we do or say, much will result that we neither intend nor anticipate. Our words and deeds can hurt, offend, and “trespass.” That pain will often transform into anger, which in turn tempts us, often successfully, to vengeful reaction. Should the target of our vengeance react in kind, we are then set on a vicious cycle that can destroy relationships and engulf nations. The only certain way out of such endless enmity is through forgiveness. By forgiving another, we bring their words and deeds to an end. The matter becomes closed. Over. Forgiving and loving are as essential to the human spirit as food and water are to the body. Without love no infant could survive and no grown person could find life worth living. But without forgiveness our capacity for love would be corrupted beyond repair. My mother intuitively knew this, which is why she forgave a lot and taught her children to do likewise. She knew that forgiving was often necessary for us to move on and get back to what mattered most: to loving. My mother was rich in love and never stingy with forgiveness. She was an exemplary human being.

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Elizabeth Biehl

1937 - 2023

Visitation at Funeral Home

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Final Resting Place

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