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Topic: 2 years ago today

Posted By: 200Tom1
Subject: 2 years ago today
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2023 at 11:37pm

The old gal passed on. It's been a long day. We did farmers market this morning,were going to release a bunch of balloons but nobody in town had any helium. She was in charge of the farmers mkt here for close to 20 years. I took a nice bunch of flowers to her grave, drove by the old house, drove by the Creston IA farmers mkt spot where she did her first farmers mkt well over 20 years ago. When she first started. She had a 4 door Chevette, got it all in that car, had 1 card table. Now I've got to have a van and 3-6' folding tables + when I do an indoor show I have an 8' table to set up too. l got lots of hugs from the gals today. As bad as I was hurting today, those hugs almost made it worth it. It was COLD and WINDY today. I use the words "old gal" which was what I called her in later years. It's not meant to be a bad thing. I hope you all had a great day.

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Posted By: Joe Goodwill
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2023 at 6:20am

Glad you got some hugs. Cherish the good memories and take care.🙏🤗

Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2023 at 6:54am

There are no words that can help. Our thoughts are with you Tom.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2023 at 7:39am

A good day for remembrances. Sad memories do give way to good ones.

Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2023 at 6:18pm

Tom,I'm sure you cherish the memories of a loved lost. We can only go forward one day,one step at a time until our day is here.

Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2023 at 6:58pm

Old gals are the best!

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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2023 at 7:32pm

Tom, she still lives on in your memories. Cherish those memories and the love you shared with each other. Glad you got lots of hugs to make your day go better.

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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023 at 10:58am

Feeling your sorrow Tom. The hardest thing in life is losing a mate, harder even than losing a sibling or parents. Cherish the memories and collect ALL the hugs you can!!

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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023 at 2:04pm

Prayers Tom, Glad you got them hugs to help ease the pain

Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023 at 3:35pm

Tom, Keep putting one foot ahead of the other and cherish the good memories and move on with life.

Had a grandpa that was 76 years old and he went and found another gal to be his wife and to live life with... at his funeral, my step grandmother said that she never had known what true love was until she met Albert.

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023 at 5:26pm

Those good memorise are locked in there and sometimes are hard to bring to the surface .
I was to a celebration of life last Thursday for a friend of many years , I firse met him when I worked for him for 3 month before in went into the service in 1962
When I got out worked for him again for a while and then on and off over the years , his wife and him were friends with my wife and with my father in law also .
So Thursday his wife and i were talking and she asked how my wife was - well it's been 9 years now since my wife passed - and I guess many either missed facts or slips their minds when they face their own losses /

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