Penny Galyon:  

I am James Galyon, husband of the girl you may have known as Penny Anders. On September 7:2024 and 11:35PM she went to Heaven. She was my wife, mother of our child, and has been my best friend for over 47 years. I love her with all my heart and always will. She is still my wife. She just moved to a different location . . . Heaven! During the 47 years we were married, she was very ill for 34 of those years and rarely left the house, had no visitors or even phone calls. It was like she was forgotten by the rest of the world. I am writing this now because I want the world to know she existed and what a wonderful, caring, self-sacrificing, Godly woman she is.. Penny graduated in 1977, 6th in her graduating class, Magna Cum Laude, with awards in History and Latin. We met at the Spring Branch ISD Publications Department in 1976 where she worked part time. She was positively the hardest worker there, but she kept to herself. I had graduated from Spring Branch High School in 1975, but I was still very school spirited, and a bit of a jokester. Penny seemed self-conscious of people noticing her, so one day I put a silly little drawing and note on the machine she was operating. It was "Kilroy" looking over a fence with the words, "Someone is always watching you." She read it and laughed. A short time later I received a beautiful hand written, six page letter from her. It was filled with the most silly, wonderful, Monty Python type humor. At the end of the letter she said that she recognizing that I was still very school spirited, and wanted to informed me there was a Homecoming game coming up soon. I did not know it at the time, but she was just being polite and giving me what she thought would be useful information. I completely misunderstood. I thought she wanted me to ask her to the game, so I did and she went with me. She was 18 years old, and I did not know it at the time, but she had never been on a date, kissed or even held hands with a guy her entire life. That night when I took her home, as we stood at her front door, we kissed for the first time. Both of us had a strong faith in Christ, which brought us closer together and became the foundation for our marriage a year later. The following year she gave me a son. We were in complete agreement that I would earn the living and she would raise our son and take care of our home. We never regretted it. She spent a lot of time with our son, loving, teaching, and helping him with school. She taught him important lessons in life, and about God. Just like Penny, our son became a straight A student. Things were tight living on one income, but Penny never complained. I could never imagine having a better woman for my wife. She was always doing something to make me happy. Whether it was a letter in my lunchbox, or cooking up a delicious meal, or some silly story or comment. Before meeting me, her dreams and plans after graduating high school were to become a teacher, but her parents did nothing to help her, and discourage her from even leaving her bedroom. I was very blessed to have found her and for her to say "yes" when I asked her to marry me. In 1979 we bought a home and she kept it meticulously clean and organized. When I got home from work there was always a delicious, often made-from-scratch, hot meal. (In our first 3 months of marriage I gained 20 pounds.) Things were wonderful, but in 1990, with no warning, she suddenly became a Type 1 Insulin Dependent Diabetic and we discovered s...Expand for more