Sad News

Sorry guys that I have not been around for the last couple of weeks but I had to make a trip home to Johnson City. My father went into cardia arrest and passed away last Sunday so I have been living in a fog, it does not seem real even yet. Joyce, in Kingsport,  did you have your surgery? Sorry I did not get to call you. Scott, how is your job at the Madison HD going. Take care, Debbie

I am so sorry to hear about this!  You are in my thoughts and prayers.  How is the rest of your family doing?  Please let us know if there's anything you need or we can do....

Thank you, everyone is also in a daze it happened so fast. Thank you for your kind words and keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Hopefully it will get better with each day and he will be missed so much by so many people.

Having recently lost my father, I can understand the fog you are in.  Hang in there, the good days will return.  Keeping you in my prayers and if there is anything you need or anything I can do for you just let me know. Take care,

Thank you, it is so hard losing a parent. I lost my mother in 1990 she was only 49, she had a brain tumor so I was very close to my father after this. The good thing is that I now have an extended family, my father remarried a wonderful woman and I have 2 wonderful sisters from this marriage and 2 wonderul brother in laws and great aunts and uncles from this union. So I am blessed and my father was a good man and will be missed by everyone.

You and your family are in my prayers.

Thank you, we will need it in the next few weeks and months ahead.

I would like to relay a story once told to me. A elderly lady knew her time was near she wanted to speak with her preacher to discuss her funeral. So she pick out her favorite hymns then turned to the preacher and said I would like to be buried with my Bible in my left hand and a fork in my right. Preacher said I understand being buried with the Bible, but why the fork. She said that at church when we have Sunday Socials the little girls come to collect everyones plates the always remind me to keep my fork for desert because the "Best is Yet To Come", so I want everyone who visits me when I pass to remember for me "The Best is Yet To Come". I'm not trying to minimize your pain but this story always eased my pain a little. You and yours are in my prayers. Bob

Bob, thank you so much for that story, that really helped. I know he is better off but it makes it rough on us mortals.

Hey Debbie!  HD is great!  The people are some of the nicest I've seen.  the bad news though, is now the time changes I have to get up an hour earlier! Sorry to hear about your Dad, our prayers are with you!