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a campfire. That tradition stayed that He will fill your day with Angie adds: My Mom and Dad have
with us even as our daughters got something. After Edd passed, I had inspired so many in our family and
older. Every year, we would go to to remove his name from all of our in the towns they lived and visited.
the mountains. business and family documents and Their love is, not was, a love forever.
accounts, and that
As Edd’s health declined after was hard. I kept
breaking his femur, we started going remembering, “time
to Ruidoso instead of Colorado. We doesn’t stop”, so I
had a good life for 63 years. I was got up every day
asked, “How do you keep going and tried to fill each
after the death of the love of your day with something
life?” Family helps; we have two worthwhile. When
daughters, six grandchildren, and I started losing my
ten great-grandchildren. I feel like sight, I had to have
they are almost perfect. I have the so much help that
love of nieces and nephews and the I sold our house
church that we attended for so many in Floydada and
years. moved to Lubbock,

When my mother lost my dad, she to Providence, to be
told me something that stuck with closer to my family.
me all these years. “Time does not This has been an
stop; you have to go to bed praying, amazing place to
and you have to get up praying live.

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