Roberta Lehtola
Dear family,
We are so sorry for your loss. Aunt Arleen was the best--always with a wonderful smile and laugh. She will be missed.
Love,
Roberta (Willacker) and Hank Lehtola
Birth date: Apr 24, 1941 Death date: Mar 1, 2017
Arleen Florence Matthews, age 75, died peacefully on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. She was born April 24, 1941 in Southfield, Michigan, the daughter of Martin and Florence Willacker. She was a Lakeland resident for 57 years. Arleen is Read Obituary
Dear family,
We are so sorry for your loss. Aunt Arleen was the best--always with a wonderful smile and laugh. She will be missed.
Love,
Roberta (Willacker) and Hank Lehtola
We met Arleen when we both worked at Peace River Center back in the 80's. She was great fun to be around, always had a smile on her face. Several of us would meet for 'happy hour' on paydays whether we drank or not; it was the friendship and the fun that we all had whenever we would get together that was most important. She was a good person and truly loved life and all her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. Treasure all the memories and she will always be in your heart.
Sheryl Milligan and Kathy Surver
When I was 15 I came to Florida for a week and stayed with my Aunt Arleen and my cousin's in Lakeland. It's one of the greatest memories growing up spending time listening to Aunt Arleen's wonderful stories, sneeking through the fence at the ballpark at the end of the street with my awesome cousin's to watch the Detroit Tiger's spring training. Aunt Arleen has and will always be in my heart. May God watch over my cousin's and help them to find peace in their heart's with this tremendous loss.
To Terri.Toni and Tina My name is Amy Cummings I'm the oldest daughter of Mary Frances and the oldest granddaughter of Maxine Willacker and I'm your cousin and your mom was my mom's and my great aunt. Aunt Arleen was my #1 favorite aunt we all will miss your laughter and her stories and she was a wonderful and beautiful person to have around and she will be sadly missed by her family and friends who truly loved and care about her so very much. Now she is with her family that is in heaven. There will be a day that we all will be together again one day. Now she is in all of our hearts she is our guardian angels looking down at us all right now. I will remember all the good times that I had with Aunt Arleen I loved and I will miss her very much. Now she is gone she will never be forgotten I'll miss my #1 Aunt and she's also in heaven with my mom now they can talk with one another again. Now that Aunt Arleen is in a better place now where she doesn't have to suffer anymore I'll always keep Aunt Arleen deep in my heart and I'll always keep her memories alive. She will always be remembered by the ones who truly loved her so very much. I miss an love you very much Aunt Arleen RIP to my sweet Aunt Arleen Love ya! great niece Amy Cummings
We met on Normandy st. In the late 60's an to this day love Arlene and her family....We played as children moved away still kept in touch. I move back to Florida in 84..... Tina got ahold of me where I ended up babysitting for Shawn and Shane and Toni's two boys Kurtis and Derrick....... Love you all...Will always remember your mom's answering machine 💞