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cared for and provided meals for made of the very best lumber. Not
elderly people. one board has a knot in it.” Both
houses are still standing.
This gracious, southern lady has
been through some tough times, One day recently, she called out,
but her outlook on life is delightful. “Bring the gun. I see a squirrel.”
She has given up her nice home Scott, the owner of The Porch Swing,
in Petersburg, and now has a little had promised squirrel gravy to the
room with a tiny porch, a sliding first one to see a squirrel. When
glass door and a beautiful view Scott went to her room, he said, “I
of trees and flowers, birds and was only kidding about shooting
squirrels. Her new favorite scripture squirrels.” She answered, “Well, I
is framed and hanging in her room. wasn’t.” She loves squirrel gravy.
“Even in your old age I will carry And when her daughter asked her
you. Even in your advanced old age where she wants to be in her last
I will carry you. I created you and I days, she answered “I’m not going
will carry you and I will save you.” anywhere. I want to be at the Porch
Swing laughing with Scott.”
From her grandfather, Clara learned Her longtime friend and pastor
to be a giver. “His pockets were stopped by for a visit and observed,
always full of IOU papers, but he “Clara has a steel trap mind. She
never collected. He was always never forgets anything,” He added,
giving, especially during the Great “She had a home
Depression. He had promised the built, and like her
Lord he would help people, and he grandfather’s, it is
did.” When her aunt
fell and broke her
neck, Clara cared for
her until she died.

Clara had one and
only one love,
Bynum. They were
secretly married for
a year before telling
her grandparents.
She was afraid her
grandfather would
object, but the union
lasted 61 years. They
had two children,
Cynda and Rick.
When her children
were young, Clara
ran a catering
business, provided
child care for several
other children and

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