The bad thing about living in a new place is that I don’t know anyone. The good thing about living in a new place is that I meet new people.
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My wife’s grandfather Lyle Harlow was a prisoner of war in World War II and survived the Bataan Death March. He had an attitude about the Japanese soldiers and people. My father-n-law also fought in WW II and was hurt in the Battle of the Bulge. He had negative comments to make about the Japanese. When I bought a Toyota Celica back in 1978 my fathern- law was not impressed since he had worked many years for General Motors and always drove a Chevrolet. However, never in either of the two men’s wildest imagination did they ever express any desire or interest in burning my Toyota or anyone else’s Toyota.
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“Good friends are like quilts – they age with you, yet never lose their warmth.”
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While watching our teen-aged son play four years of high school basketball games years ago, we both noticed an absolute truth; Our son could not seem to grasp that he wasn’t able to block every shot that was put up by the opposing team. He obviously believed that it was his God-given job to stop any player headed to the goal. Of course, you know what happened. He got his five allowable fouls in about, um, the first fifteen minutes of play. Then according to basketball rules, the referees would be obliged to ask him to leave the floor and spend the remainder of the game as the coach’s favorite ‘rider of the pine.’ Over and over again.
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Funeral services for Barbara Leona (Shaw) Howard, a longtime Atoka, OK resident, were held Friday, March 28, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at Lane Baptist Church in Lane, OK with Bro. Steve Henry and Bro. Jim Bob Lewis officiating. Burial was in Bentley Cemetery in Bentley, OK with Brown’s Funeral Service of Atoka in charge of arrangements.
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It is with overwhelming sadness that the family of Nadine Marchand Harris announce her sudden passing on Friday, March 28, 2025 at the age of 99.
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