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Skriven 2015-07-16 14:15:34 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 29055 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Sufferin' Succotash
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> There's also usually a "pickup" choir for the special seasons...

 RH> I asked our interim music director if there was going to be a
 RH> Christmas choir; he's thinking about it. He's on the music staff at the
 RH> College at Southeastern (undergrad branch of the seminary).

 NB> Christmas and Easter are the primary times we end up with our choir...
 NB> it's just nice to have some extra music then...  :)

Agreed. We're doing VBS this week, with music done by a guitar and a
couple of vocalists, as a change from the piano. Steve is doing the A/V
work, then coming down to the kitchen to help with snacks. I'm working
with crafts.


 NB> wanted to mark the day in  NB>> some way, so she also didn't want to
 NB> wait longer... We'd buried him  NB>> earlier in the week, so as not to
 NB> have to do embalming... my sister  NB>> from England was able to make
 NB> it here for the memorial service...  :)

 RH> Understandable if there's no embalming to do the burial, then a
 RH> memorial service. I guess what we'll do for Dad will depend on the time
 RH> of year when he passes away. If it's winter, probably a funeral, then
 RH> spring burial. Other times, we'll see what is decided then.

 NB> Daddy died the end of June... so it was pretty warm... hence the
 NB> burial within a couple of days... That was the year that I made it to
 NB> my first Cooking Echo picnic... :)

Seven years already. We'd met some of the group the year before, had met
Michael in person some years before when he came to HI. I don't think
we'll forget the durian or Steve's reaction to one of the peppers at the
Chinese place Janis took is to. (G)

 NB>  RH>> Leftovers (a good amount) were donated for the church's
 NB> fellowship  RH>> meal the next day.
 NB>  NB>> Did you go there for services on that Sunday...?

 RH> We'd thought about it but had to leave early Sunday morning to get
 RH> back home. We had to go the round about way, thru NJ so we could see
 RH> Mom's sister, then on to MD to spend that night with the Shipps.

 NB> Couldn't really take the time to stay for even the service, let alone
 NB> the meal afterwards, then...

No, we were getting close to where my aunt is in NJ by the time services
ended. Spent about an hour with her before getting on the road again.


 RH> Steve and I have attended services there before and the pastor has
 RH> been visiting Dad regularly. (Found out he and his wife are moving
 RH> to NC--don't know where yet--this summer.)

 NB> So he won't be visiting your dad after that...  'Twould be kinda neat
 NB> if they ended up nearer to you...  :)  Had he been visiting your Dad
 NB> in
 NB> Oneonta, too...?  Is he retiring, or taking another church...?

The pastor has been visiting Dad regularly, which has been good for both
of them. As I understood Dad, he will be serving another church but
probably his last before retirement.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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