"Pour libation for your father and mother who rest in the valley of the departed. God will witness your action and accept it. Do not forget this even when you are away from home. For as you do for your parents, your children will do likewise for you." ~~ Egyptian Book of Coming Forth by Day

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Mrs. Coker

June 12, 2006

My mother, Lois Charlene Robinson Coker, died a month ago today. Her death was sudden; she was gone within the time I got the first call informing me that something had happened to her and the time my plane landed in Tulsa, Oklahoma the next afternoon.

I've been working on family history this week and have missed being able to call her and ask questions about people whose names I've run across in census records or just to clarify some information we had talked about in the past. My hand has reached for the phone several times before I remember that she won't answer anymore.

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