Alonzo Franklin Parish and Ida Lavisa Pettingill Family Blog

To all Family Members:
Share your pictures and stories about our ancestors by sending them via email to: brenda.bailey.1@hotmail. They will be posted on the family blog and available for all of our family to enjoy.

Heritage Album

HERITAGE ALBUM
Black and white photos aged with time now cover the pages before you. These pictures are a reminder of a moment in time and give us a past to hold onto.

The harders of times our loved ones endured as they steadily paved the way. Gratitude and respect they have earned and their legacy of love we can never repay.

Each photo has a story of personal happiness, heartaches, blood and sweat. But for their individual journeys and their legacies to live, the sacrifices we must not forget.

Hold onto the history stored within these precious pages and allow these stories to live. For these memories of trial and triumph are the most priceless treasure that one can give. By Wendy Silva

Old Photographs by Ernest Jack Sharpe

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS by Ernest Jack Sharpe
A box of faded photographs I opened yesterday, And instantly my memories were carried far away

To many friends and places, from years so long ago, As I sorted through those photographs of folks I used to know.

There were some of family members that are no longer here, and photographs of sweethearts I once thought very dear.

Thoughts swiftly raced and tumbled on things that are no more, As I daydreamed over photographs and happy days of yore.

ANCESTORS

ANCESTORS

If you could see your Ancestors All standing in a row, Would you be proud of them, or not, or don't you really know?

Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees. And some of them, you know do not particularly please.

If you could see your Ancestors all standing in a row, These might be some of them perhaps, You wouldn't care to know.

But here's another question which requires a different view, If you could meet your Ancestors, Would they be proud of you?

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Alonzo Franklin Parish - Tribute Given at Funeral

The following is a tribute given at his funeral by Sylvan Burgi written by Alta Parish Glade, a daughter:

He was small of stature, five feet seven was all he stood,
But he accomplished as much as most any man could.
He only weighed one forty five, but was as active as any man alive.

He could always find something to do,
And how to work was one thing he knew.
He toiled from early morn till night,
And he’d never do anything if he thought it not right.

He was hones in his dealing with men,
And he was always in harmony with the gospel plan.
He scattered gladness and sunshine along his way,
And he brought joy to the hearts of those who listened to what he had to say.

He was a man with a heart of gold,
And a character that couldn’t be bought nor sold.
Seasoned with toil, sorrow and sweat,
Somehow he didn’t look old, just yet.

With seventy one years written across his brow,
Only death has stilled his earthly labors now.
But he will go on in the eternal realm,
And may you find peace, knowing that God is at the helm.

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