Condolences – Wanda Nell Kirkwood

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Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 19 Apr 18 - 0 Comments

Wanda Nell Kirkwood, 80, passed away on Monday, February 19, 2018 at Witham Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, Indiana. Wanda was born in Seadrift, TX on January 27, 1938 to the late John and Nellie Henderson. She was married to Butler Kirkwood who preceded her in death. She owned and operated a bar for many years. Wanda especially loved to crochet and spend time with her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cooking and watching John Wayne movies.

Survivors include son Carl (Lana) Maxwell of Thorntown, Indiana; grandchildren Von and Matthew Maxwell, Trisha (Shawn) Eaton and Dwayne Frye of Lebabon, IN, Stephen L. Henderson of CA; and Brandy (Bret) White of NC; sisters Mary Ella Glaze and Gloria Spencer of Seadrift, TX; brothers Tommy Henderson of Seadrift, TX and J.N. Henderson of Russellville, Arkansas.

In addition to her parents and husband, Wanda was preceded in death by two sons, Stephen Henderson and Jeff Maxwell; and sister, Lora G. Rubalcaba.
Graveside services were held March 11, 2018 at Seadrift Cemetery in Seadrift, TX.

Memorials may be directed to the donor’s choice. Visit gracefuneralhome.net to leave a condolence.

Cemetery Association News

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Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 19 Apr 18 - 0 Comments

The Port O’Connor Cemetery Association has been chosen to receive memorial donations from the Port O’Connor Service Club this year.
On March 1st, the following memorials have been received for these loved ones:

Harry Pond
Joe David Stringo
Milton Ward
James Turk
Pete Garza
John B. Jones
Phillip P. Efantis
Julie Hunter
Bell Allen
Retha Mae Orsak
Charles Homer DeLoach
Brenda Smith

Condolences on the loss of your loved ones. In the future we will send cards to families when we receive any memorials to the Cemetery Association.
Memorials will be used for the upkeep of the Cemetery grounds.

POC Cemetery Association

Toughest Job On Earth by Erny McDonough

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Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 19 Apr 18 - 0 Comments

I know that the Dad is the head of the house and the bread winner of every home – supposedly, but the truth is that in many households, maybe in most households, the Mom is the one who holds everything together. Especially now with the breakdown of the nuclear family, there are probably more children living without their Dad in the home! We could write about that problem easily, but I wish to focus my attention for now on practical ways Mom must “pull up her big mommy panties” and get busy focusing on the children that she helped bring into the world.

With the fragmentation of the families and transience in our society, young Moms often live across the country from biological relatives who could help provide basic answers to questions about life, especially when it comes to questions about child raising. There is not a single Mom anywhere that does not wish from time to time for someone else to make some of the major decisions for them. Never be afraid to admit that you do not have all the answers! Each generation has its own unique set of problems, but many of the answers that Grandmother would give will be the right answer for today, because human nature has not changed!

One of the biggest problems I see in child raising today is that parents, whether by two-parent households or single parents, see their task as “conduct control”. Most of the time in the disciplining of children, the task of correcting conduct is the main, if not only, consideration. I readily understand the need to insist that little Tommy act right at all times, but just how long is Tommy going to be a child in comparison to how long Tommy is going to live? Adolescence would be long if it lasted for the first eighteen years of a child’s life! Therefore, I believe that it is much more important that “character development” be the main goal of parenting. Take the basic civil characteristics and work hard at helping the child develop these: honesty, friendship, respect, honor, community caring, kindness, humility, fairness, persistence, and purity (and you can add to this list as learning situations present themselves in the lives of your child).

Moms, learn to accentuate your strengths and minimize your liabilities. I have never been a big fan of telling our youth all the “sneaky little tricks” we did while maturing! I believe we will give them new ideas and every child has enough ideas of their own. Remember, mischief is bound up in the heart of each child, said the wisest man who ever lives. Even your children know you were not a perfect angel when you were young, but I have never seen the value in providing the details of our misguided traits.
I do not believe that it is a lie to accentuate your strengths in order to help your children realize that they can reach far greater goals than they can imagine. Most children fear failing, so our stories of heroic deeds can let them know the advantages of the DNA they got from you. Never allow a mystical character or a comic book star be the only hero your child ever knows!

Moms, invest some time in yourself! Allow your child to see that having children is not the end of our development. It is okay to go back to school and get another degree. Very few Moms do not feel guilty about the time they take for themselves, because often they feel that time could be better spent caring for their child. If one has ever heard the safety briefing the flight attendant provides before the aircraft leaves the runway, they understand that if that little nose cup falls from above their heads, it is always important that they get their air mask on before they help the child with his! When a child sees their Mom taking time to study, it will develop better study skills in them. The same principle is true about the other things every Mom should be teaching. Allow the child to see you “live it out” and the formal teaching of those characteristics will take much less time and energy.

I often see what I consider to be extreme child abuse in our culture. Every one of us is keenly aware that some day we will face God. We all know that none of us are going to remain on this planet forever. I know that some will say that I am beginning to preach here, but, Mom, if you have no time for God, for prayer, for Bible study, for church attendance, ie. for a personal relationship with your Creator through Jesus Christ, do not be surprised when your child wants nothing to do with Christmas, except the presents, and nothing to do with Easter, except Easter egg candy and Cathy’s cinnamon rolls! To fail to help prepare your child for eternity is truly cruel and unusual punishment!

Invest time in a younger Mom. I have been a certified parenting instructor and yet I have never seen a book to help a young mother with her important life questions like another Mom coming alongside her and being there for support and advice. I especially like it when I see Grandmothers take a personal interest in not only their girls, but in their daughters-in-law. The personal recipes and practical feedback that can come from the years of experience are invaluable to helping our families develop properly. I may be way too old fashioned, but I still like the idea of Moms moving in with adult kids to help – and am still appalled at adult kids who still believe their parents owe them a living!

Older women teaching the younger Moms how to love their husbands and care for their children is not just good advice, it is Biblical! When we impact the lives of others on purpose, we celebrate their personal growth, their emerging spiritual maturity, and their growing confidence.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, Mom! I truly believe that you have the toughest job on planet earth, and please know that we pray for you! Children are God’s gift to us and we will treasure them and help them become all that they were created to be!

“Legend” Homage to Amelia Earhart by Dieter Erhard

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Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 19 Apr 18 - 0 Comments

Legend-no-Amelia
Whenever in my many visits to the United States I presented myself as Dieter Erhard to new aquaintences, they would answer or say “Ohh, Amelia Earhart.”
It took me a while to artisticly digest this phoenetic relation with Amelia.

I welded a Lockheed-like airplane with stainless steel tubing and rods about 1/3 original size and placed Amelia in it. With the same technique as my pieces the “Whale for Children” and my mermaid “Marilyn”, I added flourescent plexiglass pieces.

The world-famous guitar and violin making town of Bubenreuth and their 200 elementary school children/parents/teacher helped to add the about 17,000 plexiglass pieces and the same amount of spacers. We completed it within one week.

Now the “Legend” shall go on tour to be exhibited in different places … may be also overseas.

It is abou1 19 ft wide and 17 ft long. The wings are detachable for better transporting. Its weight is approximately 500 pounds.

“The Way I See It” is an attempt by the columnist to enlighten readers on a subject as he views it, and does not necessarily reflect the views of this publication.

The “Empire” Strikes Back!

The Mueller Investigation has really gone off “The Legal Reservation” now, with the raid on Trump’s attorney. Their Desperation Factor has to be off the charts (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/here-it-is-the-10-different-reasons-the-mueller-investigation-is-unconstitutional/). The ‘Powers-That-Be” (PTBs) must be seriously concerned about Trump being able to expose their criminality, conspiracy, and Agenda. And his efforts to appoint administrators to overturn the International Socialist programs, and the Totalitarian Bureaucratic Rule of “Big Govt Gone Wild”. Like such agencies as the EPA stealing Property Rights from lawful Property Owners, and the IRS harassing, auditing, and denying Conservative groups and individuals of lawful tax status for Conservative Non-govt organizations. But the Real Threat to the Far Left Democrat Socialists has been the information gained by the Congressional Investigations into the “Legal Shenanigans”, Political Bias & Animus, exposing Criminal Malfeasance and felonies by ‘leaders’ in the FBI and Dept. of Justice. The uber-loyal “Storm Troopers” of the HolderWAFFEN DoJ, and the “Lynch years” of covering up all the on-going criminality to protect Empress Hillary, have totally lost control of the situation. And they fear the exposure. Trump must be removed!

Many people have been exposed, quit, been demoted, or fired, but some have obviously “rolled over” and are cooperating with the Congressional Investigations. These people are obviously confessing that the “mistakes” and actual “criminal malfeasance for political expediency” were not only known and excused, but instigated and even ordered by the Obama White House. The “Political Cover-Up Control Factor” has reached “DEFCON One” because not only are all the old Hillary Scandals being re-hashed, but many new ones revealed. The much bally-hooed “Russia Collusion” is not on the Trump Campaign, but on Hillary and the DNC for hiring Fusion GPS to create the “salacious and undocumented” Trump Dossier that was knowing used as false “evidence” to obtain FISA warrants. And the illegal Email server, full of Classified documents. The FBI and DoJ still refuse to provide documents subpoenaed by Congressional Investigations, in defiance of law and Constitutional oversight. Every little bit that comes to light incriminates further the conspirators and points further up the Chain-of-Command – straight to Obama and his closest advisers. The Citizens are restless, and must be disarmed.

Of all the “Sacred Cows” of the American System of Jurisprudence, the most sacrosanct is the Attorney-Client Privilege. This has been inviolate in all criminal prosecutions. But that “corner-stone” of Legal Protection has been violated in the desperate attempt of the Mueller Witch Hunt to get SOMETHING! Anything to feed the constant Media assault, on President Trump. And what is the Alleged Crime in all this? 12 years ago & 10 years before he even decided to run for President, Donald Trump allegedly had consensual sex with a “porn star” called “Stormy Daniels”. He then was an Entertainer, TV star, and a Registered Democrat. Such behavior was practically expected of him, almost a “duty” to his fans. He denies it, something Liberals applaud as a “Right”, because “sex is personal and nobody’s business”, at least for Democrats. Much less TV “Reality Show” actors. (I have a tendency to believe him because he is a known “Germaphobe”, and Stormy, though physically attractive, was a porn-star, “kinda a ‘grease-pit’ of a public-woman or soiled dove.”) His Attorney Cohen signed a Legal Non-Disclosure Contract with Stormy Daniels and paid her $130,000 for her to keep her mouth shut. Without Trump’s knowledge or signature. Any “evidence” gained against President Trump would have to be inadmissible in any Constitutional Court as “Fruit of a Poisoned Tree” due to Cohen’s position as his attorney. Stormy is in serious violation of a Legal Contract that she “willfully, knowingly, and intentionally signed”. Can you imagine the uproar by the ACLU & the Media if the “personal attorney” for any prominent Democrat was raided like this and records seized? Or even a common criminal targeted by a real criminal investigation? Even Traditional Liberal Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is appalled!

How desperate the Lib/Prog PTBs and their Media Propaganda Machine must be, to stoop to such transparent Unlawful Abuse of Power? What this has become, is a desperate “Legalistic Coup” by Mueller & Co. to try and protect the Empress Hillary, overturn a elected President, and protect the “Legacy” of Obama’s “Hope and Change” of turning America into a Socialist State, under the Leftist dominated UniParty. To be ruled by the Permanent Political Class, bought and commanded by the “Elites”. The Constitution is dead, killed by neglect and perversion of law, they hope. This is the “Empire of The Swamp”, government of the Proletariate, by the Bureaucracies, for the Agenda of the Self-Appointed Intellectual Elites. “By Marx, and his prophet Alinsky”, they are not going to surrender their power gained under Obama, the Won! And certainly not to an “America Firster”, whose interests are benefiting the Citizens who elected him, growing an economy that benefits the productive citizens, and not the “Masters of the Universe”, the Money Manipulators. So Mueller will continue with this “Never Ending Story”? It certainly doesn’t look like an “Investigation” anymore, but a Libtard Fantasy, some Grimm’s Fairy Tale to scare impressionable children into fear and loathing for the “Boogie-Man Trump”?

It now almost looks like Mueller wants to be fired. After all the wasted time and money, endless criminality by many FBI & DoJ “moles”, nit-picking over unsubstantiated allegations against Trump, while ignoring flagrant felonies by The Almost Empress and The Won; is that the only way out for him not to look like an incompetent, biased, and wasteful idiot? The BIG QUESTION is, how much longer are the Citizens and the few uncorrupted Representatives in “Sodom-on-the Potomac” going to put up with this?

“The Empire” last month openly declared war on the Constitution and Citizenry with calls for repealing the Second Amendment. And for 70 years, they have been making constant sneak attacks on Christianity, against our guarantee of Religious Freedom by the First Amendment; and now attacking our Freedom of Speech as “Hate”, if it is conservative or supports Rule of Law, even defending our borders. And this week, the Empire’s “Novo-KGB” can raid the offices of an Attorney for our elected President, after almost 2 years of fruitless “Investigation”? So say, “Good-bye” to the Fourth Amendment? Those “Neo-Imperailists” don’t understand that Orwell wrote 1984 as a WARNING! Not as an Instruction Manual. “The Empire” understands that the Second Amendment is what our Founders gave us as a “Doomsday Option”, to prevent something like what is happening now, by self-appointed Elites, using the guise of “Democracy” and greedy, foolish, and slavish minions bought by false promises.

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