Grandmother Comes For A Visit

My grandmother was a jetsetter long before the term was made. She would give my mother a call and announce that she would be arriving on a certain date and could we meet her at the airport.

Whenever she would get to our house she would take out a few things and put them in her drawer and hang up her clothes in the closet but she would keep her suitcase on the suitcase stand in the closet in case anyone was going to take a little trip for the weekend she just had to throw a few thing in her suitcase and then she was ready to go.

She would keep candy in her dresser drawer but she would hide it so we kids wouldn't eat it and she like to get a kind of candy that we didn't really care for.

Grandmother was just over four foot tall and she was a spunky German lady that was very temperamental.

She liked to play pranks on us and our friends, but she didn't like for us to play tricks on her. She liked to be the center of attention and this was ok until our friends came over.

We knew that she would be at our house for at least three months and then she would be off to her baby daughters in Spring Valley, NY.

The Daniel L. Hagy Jr. Family

L.to R. : Tyler, Jacob, Daniel, Johanna, and Annika. They are the grand and great grand children of the late Pauline Beard Waters.

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.

Happy Birthday, Melia

Happy Birthday Mom

Lucy, Dad, Juanita and Mom. If she were alive today she would be 101 years old.