Just click on the branch of my
family you would like to explore or follow
this link to some generic genealogy resources.
The lady pictured at the left of the page is my mother. It was taken as she was enjoying the company of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Mother passed away the day after Thanksgiving back in 2010 after having had a stroke. She was 82 years old. Mother was the inspiration for my genealogy work and trying to reconnect with family. We all miss her very much.
Mother never worked
outside of the home, but she had worked very hard to
make our house a home. She
never made a
garden. She always
left that to dad (and
me when I was still at home). She
did
the hard part though, she put the vegetables up in the freezer or
canned them
after we had picked them. She
sewed for
friends and family. She
made clothes for
me or bought me clothes with the money she made sewing for people. She loved to sew and was
good at it. She
stood by my dad for over sixty-two years,
forty-three years of which dad has been preaching.
Being a preacher’s wife is not an easy life
some time. She
taught children’s classes
at church up until a few years recent and had some funny stories out of
that
(ask me about the song “We Will Understand It Better By and By”
sometime).
Mother’s memory had left her. Most of the people that she remembered and longed for, her
mother,
father, sisters, and brother, were already passed on. Several
times she had asked me if I had heard
from her mother and father and I had to remind her they had been dead
for many
years. My sister and I were still
familiar to her, but she did not remember us as being her children, she
had lost
the memory of those years of her life.
Much of the time she thought my dad was her dad or someone else (she
said one time she thought he might be one of the Knox boys (her
nephews) playing
a trick on her). She also no longer
recognized her home of forty-five years nor the mountain in front that
she
always had loved looking up at. But on Friday,
November 26th., the
angels carried her spirit to paradise where she is now comforted, and
we are
comforted knowing that her spirit is safe with God..