June 27, 2020 Issue, Page 8 of 8

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Page 8 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Saturday, June 27, 2020 DAR members hear about historical significance of obituaries The Washita Chapter of participated in the Pledge of Hollar. ans in Cheyenne was given one would find in reading the Daughters’ pledge. the Daughters of the Ameri- Allegiance, the American’s A report of the service by Linda Stewart. Regard- obituaries and their histori- Members attending were can Revolution met June 8 at Creed and the Preamble to done by the group for the ing the Project Patriot, to the cal value. Plus, she explained Virginia. Reid, — Luanne the Café Clinton. the Constitution. presentation of the State chapter credit and accom- the difference in a death no- Eisler, Linda Stewart, Ellen Regent Carol Ann Batter- Nancy Lisle gave the Pres- DAR Teacher award to Don- plished by Luanna Eisler, tice and the obituary. Womack, Carol Ann Batter: ton opened with the DAR ident General’s message, as na Wright of the Cheyenne there have been, at this time, The group discussed the ton, Nancy Lisle, Doris Mi- ritual with Chaplain Virginiawell as a review of the chap- schools was done by Mari- 66,994 entries of Patriots. coming year’s programs and nor, Marilyn Wilson, Marc Reid assisting, according to ter’s Memorial Day service lyn Wilson. A Quilts of Valor Also, Eisler did Genealogy activities. The meeting was Grant Mareen Hallmark anc a DAR release. The group at the grave of Lura Pierce presentation for four veter- in a Minute, explaining what closed with the reciting of Kay Hagerman. About Life: How Soon It Will Be Too Late ever known, and she knew point of trying to show him “Why not strike out in re- know no other way to make way, but you will never re- he loved her, too. whatever kindness she could venge at him for all the bad the hurt go away. They live gret the times you were kind. By the time she took their here and there, buying gifts things he did to you all those with little or no peace in- As Mother Teresa said, the children and left the mar- for him, speaking comfort- years?” They felt he did not side. They frequently abuse little kindnesses we do echo riage, he had been a violent ing words whenever she had deserve even the smallest those who love them in vari- throughout eternity. alcoholic for over 10 years. the chance. There were no kindness, having shown so ous ways, because it is the It is so easy to take those Filled with the grief of his thank-you cards or respons- little of it to others. But she tortured who torture otheraround us for granted, as if past and from all the hard- es to her gifts sent through knew kindness really didn’t souls. Many are negative, we believe they could not ships and failures they had another, and no response to cost anything and not being because life has been very possibly be taken from us been through together, he any of the kind words, but kind always did in the long painful and disappointing without any warning but simply drank to numb the she knew he needed them. run, for them. They can appear they can and often are. Death Glynda Lomax pain. From time to time He was a tortured man in- After he passed away, undeserving of any kind- owes notice to no one. By Glynda Lomax over the years, he would side. she thought about what his ness or thought at all, and Don’t wait to be kind to try to stop because he knew Tears streamed down her life must have been like in yet they are the very people those around you, both the “You cannot do a kindness that was not the life she de- face as she watched him take those last years. He lived who need our love the most, good and the bad. Do it at too soon, for you never know served, but it never lasted for his last breaths and saw his alone on a small check and for they have so little of it for every opportunity you are how soon it will be too late.” long. The grief of too many heart beat the very last time could barely walk because themselves. given. You never know how - Ralph Waldo Emerson losses too soon would drive on the hospital monitor. She of his disability. Just getting She had left him over 20 soon it will be too late. him back to the bottle. was so sad to see him leave dressed in the morning must years before, but she real- She was 15 and he was Not long ago, he developed this world in spite of all that have been so hard for him, ized when he died she had “We must learn to re- 20 when they met on a sul- a life-threatening infection happened between them. not to mention living alone never stopped loving him, gard people less in the try July night on the tropical and was medi-flighted to a But she was so very glad for with a house to care for, bills she had only stopped know- light of what they do or Gulf Coast of Texas. nearby city for treatment. the small kindnesses she had to pay, laundry to do, grocer- ing she did. omit to do, and more in the A summer romance began Though they had been apart shown him over the years. ies to buy and food to cook. We can’t tell our hearts light of what they suffer.” to bloom only weeks later for more than 20 years, she Though he never responded And facing the constant who to love or when to stop. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer that blossomed into love be- rushed to be at his bedside to any of her acts of kind- loneliness besides. Tf you can turn it off, it isn’t fore fall. She dropped out of and say goodbye to him be- ness, she knew him well Those who are addicted to love at all. It pays to be kind Glynda Lomax is a Chris- high school and they were fore he left this world. As she enough to know what they drugs or alcohol often appear no matter what the circum- tian author and podcaster married that winter. The looked down at him in his meant to him. to us to be unlovable. They stances are or have been. who resides in the Ozark marriage lasted 12 years. It comatose state and brushed For many years, those who can appear unloving as well, You will regret the hard, Mountains of Northern Ar- was an intensely painful one, back the hair from his face, knew their story asked her but in reality they seldom are cold words you spoke and kansas with her two very filled with poverty, abuse all the love she had felt for “Why do you bother with completely unloving. Often the harsh way you treated bossy dogs. She wrote her and terrible fighting, but she him all those years before him? Why do you show him they are just lonely indi- someone when they are sud- first About Life... column loved him with a love that came rushing back. Over the so much kindness?” What viduals who harbor years of denly gone. You will regret in 2003 for a newspaper in surpassed anything she had last years, she had made a they were really asking was pain, regret and abuse who having hurt them in any Dallas. 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