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A couple of days ago, I wrote about my sister Helen. Tuesday, I attended her final service, held in Texas. It was a tribute planned by her children and grandchildren and Helen would have been pleased because her life centered around her family. Each one told a bit about what she had meant to them. They shared warm […]

Etta–A Dear, Familiar Place

This is the final part of my sister Helen’s thoughts about our grandparents, Levi and Edna Latty, and life on the farm at Etta Bend. “When I hear anything about Nixon’s ‘Watergate’, I get a flashback to Pappy’s ‘watergap’ and I giggle. Anyway, the watergap of my childhood was a fence of vertical boards hung […]