May 16, 2007

• Good-Bye Marvin…

   

  
  

  I guess I am at that age when I start receiving news that my aunts and uncles are passing away. I just got back from the hospital last night and received the news one of my favorite uncles passed away. He was a man of great humor and loved the Lord!  What a combination but they should go hand in hand! God has a real sense of humor in my mind. Just look at some of the exotic and not so exotic animals he created! The giraffe has always been one I cant get over! What was He thinking?

  
  

  I will miss Marvin Stokesbary, knowing he has left this world for another is going to be hard on his family back in Minnesota, and Iowa. He was the last of the 4 brothers to pass. All the sisters are all still alive and doing well…Except for Marvin the other 3 brothers opted to leave the farm for different pastures….my Dad, Bert pursued a career in the newspaper business as a linotypist after graduation. One of a very few careers a young deaf man could get hired to do back then. He worked for the SF Chronicle for many years. His other deaf brother Glen who died a year before my Dad, stayed in the Washington State area. While we moved to California when I was very young. His oldest brother Lyle passed on just days before my dad did. Srange to die just days apart. He also lived in Washington State. I dont remember what he did for a living but I know he was very high up in the Masonics. It is sad that they are all gone now. Lyle’s wife is gone as is Glenn’s and my mother but Marvin’s wife is still alive but in a home and I am not sure if she is aware of anything anymore. The grieving ones are the sisters, Bonnie, Ruth, Maxine and Phyllis.

  
  

  I lived with Maxine and her family when I was 12 when my parents were divorcing. I stayed on their farm and got to experience something most city kids dont get to do. They were so good to me and my brother. I believe it was their prayers and the experience of going to church every Sunday with them that I later became a Christian. My father was an athiest and so it was a whole new experience for me to go to church. I don’t really remember alot of it but neither do I remember alot of the meals I had either but I know that everyone of them nourished me.

  
  

  I am feeling very nostalgic for those days right now. I do believe that is also where I learned to love the WILD weather that the plain states can have. They lived in a real sturdy big farm house that I felt completely safe in. Even when there were tornados and thunder and lightning I was watching in AWE! I barely ever got to see snow in California….so all that was extremely exciting to me.

  
  

  Love you Marvin and I will miss all your funny jokes you always loved to tell me.

  
  

  I know that you are finally at true peace! I just wish it didn’t hurt so much to let go….

  
  

  Love Kerri

  
  

   

  
  

   

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