Monday, August 23, 2021

Memories - Lutheran Christina

 

This was a recent service.




 We knew the prognosis and enjoyed every moment.



 This remains the best-seller - the Gospel cannot be overcome by text fakery and infantile paraphrasing dressed up as "translation by scholars."


 Bethany loved the camera.



 Bethany Joan Marie




 Bethany could hold herself up and then lost that strength.


 Bethany was Ida's living doll, and they adored each other.


 Someone tried to shut down communication, out of sheer spite.
Pete Ellenberger saw this photo and we got together twice before she died.



 Now we know who painted that portrait.
Actually a member shared the program and Norm Boeckler has used it often.




LCA Bishop James Crumley was a true Southern gentleman.
 


Pete Ellenberger could not stop smiling when his cousin Christina came up from Arkansas.


 Engagement day - Henry and Marie Ellenberger


 Veterans Honor Rose - in honor of Pete and many other veterans, gone too soon.


 Erin Joy loved her swing, so the nursing home took it away. We learned to turn sadness into glee, such as the time we were all in trouble for laughing loudly in the hospital room. I played Nurse Ratchet and told Erin she would be swabbing floors and cleaning bedpans. She loved it. Our opinion is that nurses are the best part of medicine.



 The only way to get Erin to grasp the bear was to order her not to do it.
Typical Jackson, she grabbed it and grinned. In fact, lifting up her leg would bathe her in sweat from the effort.



 Erin was angelic in her photos. I took this one and developed it.



 This was Erin's last visit out, visiting Larry Carlson with ALS.


 Baby Christina.

 Christina wore the Swedish crown.


 Erin loved her mother so much that I had to yell at Mom for 
using the facilities at the hospitals or nursing homes. "Get out of there!"
Mom complained, so Erin laughed even more.



 Erin had to have two teeth removed from wearing them down to the pulp.
We were all crying that she was hurt. She smiled at me to show she was OK.
Christina had steely nerves from many crises and false hopes.





 This is a real rose tipped in told and preserved, as a wedding present.