Celebration of Life
Join us as we celebrate the life of Susan Kimes. Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 11:00am, Restoration Church in Lake Elsinore. All are welcome.
A Living Digital Legacy
Susan Kay “Susie” Kimes
May 19, 1947 — September 15, 2026
“Love God and help others.”
Celebrating a life devoted to Jesus, family, generosity, freedom, and loving people well.
This is a place to keep discovering who Susie was.
Susan Kay Kimes was a mother, grandmother, wife, ministry leader, mentor, spiritual mother, teacher, traveler, giver, and prayer warrior. She was also funny, mischievous, generous, strong-willed, and deeply human. This website exists to preserve her story — and to invite the people she loved, mentored, prayed with, and served alongside to help tell it, so that her children, grandchildren, spiritual children, and generations still to come can continue to meet her here.
Now Available
Chosen Woman: Her Story of Faithfulness
Susie's book is now available to read on Amazon.
“My hope is that I will be remembered as someone who loved Jesus, and served Him.”
From her StoryWorth writings
— Susan Kay Kimes
The ministry leader was also the woman who could be mischievous, playful, and funny.
After I got my first car I got into plenty of mischief. I even damaged the transmission trying to make it lay rubber.
From her StoryWorth writings — on her first car
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Revelation 21:4
Susan described this passage as pivotal in her decision to surrender her life to Jesus in 1979.
Help us tell the rest of her story.
If Susie prayed for you, mentored you, made you laugh, or showed you Jesus in some ordinary moment, we would be honored to keep your memory of her here.
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