Life Is To Short

Life Is Too Short

...To wake up in the morning
with regrets. So love the
people who treat you right,
and forgive the ones who don't.

And believe that everything
happens for a reason.

If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.

Nobody said it would be easy,
They just promised...
It would be worth it!

Happiness can't be bought,
it would be too expensive...
You have to make your own.

Happy are they that take life day
by day, complain very little, and
are happy for the little things in life!

At the end of the day, it's not
about being pretty and popular,
it's about being healthy and happy!

Laugh when you can 
Apologize when you should...

And let go of what you cannot change.

Elizabeth Beard Dobbs

 MRS. DOBBS
            Former nurse, teacher
            COMMERCE - Mrs. Elizabeth Beard Dobbs, 87, died Monday, March 6, 
            2000, at St. Mary's Hospital, Athens, following an extended illness.
            Mrs. Dobbs was a daughter of the late Wilburn and Lucy Hamilton 
            Beard.

            She had worked as a private duty nurse, caring for newborn babies 
            and new mothers, and later became a kindergarten and day care 
            teacher. Mrs. Dobbs was the founder of the Literacy Program for 
            Jackson County, receiving much recognition for her achievements.
            She was preceded in death by her husband, Lilburn Dobbs.

            Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in the 
            chapel of Ivie Funeral Home, Commerce, with Robert Eberhert and 
            Richard Gasser officiating. Burial will be in Jackson Memorial 
            Gardens, Commerce.

            Mrs. Dobbs is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Pauline and 
            Joe Waters, Commerce; sister, Glynn Dalen, Holiday, Tenn.; and 
            several nieces and nephews.

            The family was to have received friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday 
            at the funeral home.

            Ivie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
            The Jackson Herald, March 8, 2000

Happy Birthday Annette

On August the 28 Annette Shippey Whitley the wife of Joel and the mother of Samuel and the daughter of the late Sara Juanita Waters Shippey and Stirling Shippey had her birthday.