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But I, and probably anyone who married for 64 blessed years. All
knew him very well at all, would
readily concede that his greatest
asset was, unquestionably, his
wife. The two ended up being
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the while, Mama Hinds was the
picture of the faithful, loving wife
who never stopped admiring,
supporting, and believing in her
husband.
They were truly an unstoppable
team, all the way up to my
father’s passing in 2018.
And recently, the powerful unity
of their influence has become
memorialized in the naming of
the recent addition to the music
building on the LCU campus, the
Wayne and Yvonne Hinds Music
Center.
But happily, the story doesn’t
end there. Another Mama Hinds
has arisen in our midst, another many families. Eventually, there
woman who embodies all that was the formation of Christ In The
that designation has come to mean Arts, a local dramatic dance studio
since it was first coined decades that continues to flourish to this
ago. day and produces major, original
dramatic works that fill the Civic
She, too, is an unstoppable force Center theater twice a year.
for good wherever she is. She, too,
works predominantly behind the From the smallest endeavor to the
scenes and makes everything she largest, this younger Mama Hinds
touches happier, more productive, continues to do what my elderly
more relationally connected. She, mama has always done – take care
too, loves everyone and makes of people and help out in any way
each one feel at home. that’s needed, being a continual
rock of support day after day, year
She is ready to help at the drop after year.
of a hat, changing her plans in an
instant, as the need arises. She has But one thing that is unique to
taken on a variety of roles over Dana and has been a continual
the years, but in all of them, she is source of special help to our
truly and obviously “mama”. family’s many productions, is
her ability as a seamstress. If I
I speak, of course, of my own wife, were to try to count how many
Dana Brown Hinds. And she has costumes she has either partially
done all the above while helping to or completely created, it would
raise our seven children. be a very large number indeed.
In fact, in the early days of our
It so happened that our kids, productions, most, if not all the
early on, had this desire to tell beautiful dresses you would see
significant stories through any on the stage were her works of art,
dramatic means possible. At first, a real labor of love that entailed
it was simple, home-grown plays many, many hours (for which she
with friends, just for parents. Later, was never paid).
it was larger productions involving