July 21, 1929 to January 1, 2024

Ramona (“Monie”) Louise Borders

1 CORINTHIANS 13:7

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

WHEN

Sat., March 16, 2024

Service: 12pm—2pm PST
Celebration: 4pm—6pm PST

WHERE

Faith Community Church

2700 Rancho Pancho
Carlsbad, CA 92009

Order of Service

O P E N I N G M U S I C

Oh How He Loves You (and other favorite hymns)

Performed by Pastor Johnny Zacchio

O P E N I N G W O R D S

By Pastor Justin Windham

P H O T O S + V I D E O S

Provided by the Borders Family

E U L O G I E S

By Ginny Archambault, Wendy Borders, and Suzanne Borders 

A U D I E N C E M E M O R I E S

All are invited to share their memories of Ramona

H Y M N S

Amazing Grace + How Great Thou Art
Sung by Carrie Pingel

P R A Y E R

By Pastor Justin Windham

C L O S I N G M U S I C

Great is Thy Faithfulness (and other favorite hymns)

Performed by Pastor Johnny Zacchio

ORGANIZED BY:
Dave Borders • Suzanne Borders

Love never ends.

As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:8-13 • ESV

OBITUARY

Ramona (“Monie”) Louise Borders

July 21, 1929 Decatur, IL — January 1, 2024 Reno, NV

Ramona Borders was born in Decatur, Illinois to Marguerite and Cleatus Jackson. She was a sister to Gary Jackson. In 1947, Ramona married classmate Edward Borders and together they had 5 children: Steven, Marsha, Jeff, Virginia, and David. In the early 1960s, Ramona and her children moved to Solana Beach, California, where Ramona became a bookkeeper, eventually starting her own business. Deeply religious, Ramona was a founding member of the Faith Community Church in Encinitas, CA. Ramona's love for Christ inspired her to sponsor missionaries around the globe. She also loved youth ministry and spent many of her summers at the Del Mar County Fair sharing the love of Christ with children through her world-famous puppet shows! "Monie," as she was known to her grandchildren, embodied the true Christian spirit and had a great love of all humanity, dedicating her life towards the betterment of the world and all the souls within it. She was a loving mother, beloved grandmother, treasured daughter, and a caring sister in Christ.

Ramona's surviving family includes her daughter, Ginny Archambault of Ogden, UT, and three sons: Steve Borders of Columbus, NC; Jeff Borders of Kansas City, MO; and David Borders of Reno, NV. Ramona is also succeeded by 6 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren: Ben Miller of Syracuse, NY; Sarah Trama, and her son Arthur Trama of Pottstown, PA; Jessica Marshall of Philadelphia, PA; Suzanne Borders of Los Angeles, CA; Elizabeth Barnfield of Washington, DC; and Carrie Pingel, and her 2 sons, Henry and George Pingel, of Ballwin, MO. Ramona is united in Heaven with her daughter, Marsha Borders, who passed in 2012.

The photos shown above are available for downloading, below.

Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

RAINER MARIA RILKE
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS II • 29