[AT] Farewell to a country woman

[John Dunlap]

I pray you enjoy those memories, pass them on to your grand kids and leave a legacy. I have similar remembrances from my grandmother's place in NE Okla.
John Dunlap
Sleepy P Ranch, Bowie Texas

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On Dec 31, 2011, at 7:22 PM, "Dick Day" <ddss at telebeep.com> wrote:

> Funny how the most natural event in the world is both sad and happy.  Sorry 
> for your loss.
> 
> Dick
> 
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> From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:37 PM
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> Subject: [AT] Farewell to a country woman
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>> We laid my grandmother to rest today, next to my grandfather, and it was
>> good to see them together again.  She turned 100 years old last 
>> Thanksgiving
>> Day and was healthy and in good spirits when I saw her then; I'm surprised
>> she passed so quickly but am glad she didn't suffer.
>> 
>> I've lived most of my life in the suburbs but grew up on a little farm in
>> the country, which my dad had bought since he missed the rural 
>> surroundings
>> of his youth.  We'd go to visit Grandma and Grandpa each year on their 
>> farm
>> just south of Mooresville, Indiana, and it was always a place of hard work
>> but familiar comfort.  I can remember the great big whole-pan-size 
>> pancakes
>> Grandma would make in her black iron skillet on the stove in the kitchen,
>> and the smell of dog food on the back porch, and picking tomatoes with
>> Grandpa, and building Grand Coulee Dam with our Tonka trucks and dozers in
>> the cool dirt beneath the big lilac bush.  I remember playing Rook (Rook 
>> was
>> okay; normal playing cards seemed to be frowned upon), and the wild 
>> morning
>> glory vines in the young corn as we walked between the rows to the creek 
>> at
>> the end of the field, and the stories my dad told of growing up there, a
>> skinny 10-year-old kid cultivating corn and soybeans with a Farmall F-20
>> while daydreaming of having a Farmall M like the big farmers (and thereby
>> helping plant my own longtime lust for M-series tractors).  Throughout it
>> all, Grandma was a constant:  Always working, always busy, yet always with
>> time for a smile and kind word for my brothers and sister, my cousins, the
>> neighbor kid, and me.  Sleep well now, Grandma.
>> 
>> Dean Vinson
>> Dayton, Ohio
>> www.vinsonfarm.net
>> 
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