Category: Family
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May 30, 1945
Memorial Day!! What Does It Mean To You This Year? How Will You Celebrate It This Weekend? Grandpa Leo, once the war was declared over got a hero’s welcome. The local paper ran an article about him coming home. They gave him a spot on the front page for the occasion also doubling as a…
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Dialysis
My Uncle’s course was set 5 years before he died. The evidence has shown that most people, but not all only make it a few years. Dialysis takes a lot of a person’s already vulnerable body. As part of a patient’s family, because we are going through the process a bit differently but nevertheless we…
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1961
After 3 sons and a daughter had already been born to this couple, a new baby boy came into the world. He was born May 24th and would be their 5th and last baby. He was born exactly a week before his big sister’s birthday. She would have been nearly 4 years old, possibly thought…
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Jewels Being Dug Up
Reality hit me in the face this afternoon. About 2 months ago my first published article was on finding some family gems I had thought were lost. The feelings that seeing those pieces of my family history were overwhelming at the very least. Those tokens have revealed a different side of Grandpa I don’t really…
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Memorializing With Color
Family is precious and our memories will follow us wherever we go. My Grandpa Freddy spent time with his children and grandchildren teaching us about our family. Memorial Day was a special time for our family. Dinner would be eaten some of us would play, others talk and the rest would clean up the kitchen.…
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Banquets of 2023
For the first time in several years mom and I had 3 Celebrations of Mothers and the women in our lives. Grandma’s Church had been something a little different for their members. She has 5 daughters and each lady has their own church family. She may have at one time gone to her daughters churches…
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Autopilot in Robinson
Once we got over the horror of not having a little girl to spend time with through the weekend; a plot twist occurred. My brother didn’t even tell dad about this until Saturday. The day before this was all supposed to happen. Somehow my niece on a Face-time chat told us on Friday. Another Road-Trip…
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Unexpected Road Trip
God has a wonderful sense of humor. Do you ever set out thinking one way and then by the end of the process or the week it was completely a different way altogether? Last Tuesday was the bombshell news. Due to the very sad and divergent tendencies of the word divorce my brother gets his…
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Every Mile Reveals A Memory
Driving in the wrong direction, like we did, allowed us to have a family recollection time. According to mom the long drive was fun and just what we needed that Saturday. She may have been right considering what the next few miles of road would reveal to us. Little Nashville has happy memories for us…
Jewells of Thought 