Obituary of Jackie Ramin

Jacqueline (“Jackie”) Ann Ramin, née Tuzinski, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February, 29th 1964.  (She was a leap year baby!  Special from the beginning.)  She was one of four children to Henry and Lois Tuzinski: Kathy, Elizabeth (Betsy), William (Billy), and Jackie.  Jackie grew up in St. Anthony, Minnesota, where she attended St. Charles Borromeo school in her younger years, and graduated from St. Anthony Village High School in 1982.

 

Jackie started flying in 1981.  It was at the flight school that she met King, one of the flight instructors.  They parted ways after Jackie was done taking flying lessons, but a few years later, they reconnected and started dating.  King proposed to her in 1988, and they married on 9/9/89, honeymooning in Hawaii.  Jackie gave birth to Stephanie in 1990 and Bradley in 1996.  She was an avid volunteer at the elementary school while Stephanie and Bradley were growing up, and eventually took a job at their school.  Later on, she went on to work at a couple of local airports in an administrative role, and in her most recent years was enjoying her time as a stay-at-home mom.

 

Jackie loved many things in life.  First and foremost, she relished being a wife and mother.  She was married to her love, King, for over 32 years, and greatly enjoyed talking daily on the phone with him while he was away on trips, going on long drives with him, and in recent years, taking naps with him on the couch. ☺ She also adored being a mother, raising her two children (and various pets along the way).  She always enjoyed spending time with “her brats,” and loved taking trips to see Bradley when he was away at school, and watching Hallmark movies and baking shows together with Stephanie.  She also liked game nights as a family, and more recently became particularly fond of playing the game “Scattegories.”

 

Jackie had a passion for aviation.  She enjoyed flying, attaining her private pilot’s license while taking flying lessons at the flight school.  Sitting on Post Road (near MSP airport) and listening to the tower communications via the handheld radio as the planes landed was an activity she loved (especially when King or one of the children were coming home, listening for their particular plane to land).  

 

Jackie also loved to travel, traveling both near and far.  She enjoyed traveling the Rustic Roads in Wisconsin when the weather was nice, spending time up North camping or houseboating over various summers, traveling to surrounding states (especially to South Dakota for the annual family pheasant hunting trip to Chamberlain) and other states across the US, including Alaska, and road-tripping with Stephanie.  She also traveled to Mexico, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, and Italy.  In recent years, she had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, and Niagara Falls.  

 

Jackie also loved nature and animals.  She loved planting flowers in her flower boxes come spring, and watching the birds from the window in the dining room or from outside in the porch, particularly in the afternoons when she ate lunch - she especially loved it when she spotted cardinals and hummingbirds!  She liked cats (big and small), but was particularly fond of the most recent family cat, Niles.  And although she claimed to dislike dogs (“cats rule and dogs drool,” as her saying went), everyone knew she loved them deep down  (The family’s most recent dog, Bear, especially brought her many laughs over the years.)

 

Jackie was a phenomenal baker and cook.  Anyone who sampled her cooking and baked goods only ever had glowing reviews to give.  She was especially known for her cakes, providing the cake for family birthday celebrations over the years.  She was known for whipping up her vast array of Christmas cookies and banana breads at Christmastime.  She made a wide variety of delicious meals, and particularly loved making King’s homemade spaghetti sauce recipe.  (She was thrilled to start incorporating homemade pasta after she learned how to make it in Italy, too!)  

 

Most of all, Jackie loved Jesus.  Although she grew up in the church and had been an avid church-goer all of her life, in recent years she particularly grew in her love of studying the Bible and closer in her relationship to the Lord.  She joined a women’s bible study through Bible Study Fellowship (BSF), and greatly enjoyed her Monday evenings spent reading the Bible and fellowshipping with the women in her BSF groups, and learning more about the Word of God through the lectures that were given.  She also really loved the church that she and King have been attending these past few years, the Fort Snelling Memorial Chapel, especially for its patriotic nature and remembrance of the veteran.   

 

Jackie went to be with the Lord on January 24th, 2022.  She was full of love, and had an enormously caring and generous spirit: she was never too busy to make time for a lengthy conversation with people she ran into at the grocery store, would buy meals for police officers, fire fighters, and veterans (not revealing herself to the recipient), and always gave out the biggest hugs.  She was one of the most thoughtful people you could meet, and was always thinking of and caring for others.  She loved to laugh and make others laugh, and she was a strong and resilient woman.  We surely count ourselves blessed to have had someone so caring and so full of love in our lives for as long as we did, though it seems far too short.  Jackie is greatly missed already, but we know that Heaven is surely rejoicing at her arrival.

 

Matthew 28:20 “…and lo, I will be with you always, even to the end of time.”

 

Memorials to the Fort Snelling Memorial Chapel or the Animal Humane Society of Minnesota.