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Irene and Eugene Day mark 61st anniversary




Well, this has been an interesting week! My brother, Archie Ray Fields, has been in the hospital with E. coli. Not sure how he got it. He is doing better and with the antibiotics, they have been flushing it out of his system. He should be home by the time the paper comes out.

Hazel Rayburn has been in the hospital. We visited her and she seems to be doing pretty well.

Sorry to hear that Mrs. Ella Preston fell and broke her hip about six months ago and is staying with her son, Bruce. Her grandson is staying at her place. We wish her a speedy recovery. She was my first and second grade teacher, and I think the world of her. Get well soon.

Billy Ray Maggard has been in physical therapy for a few weeks. He fell and hurt his wrist, and also had an infection in his body. Keep him in your prayers, as well as Agnes. She is in bad health also.

Charles and Audrey Hammonds have been in North Carolina to spend some quality time with his daughter, Chris, and husband, John Cook. Chris needs to be added to our prayer list as she is in need of a liver transplant.

I had a nice chat on the phone with Phyllis Caudill. She was wanting Virginia Ann Gilley’s address. Phyllis said her daughter was in the car wreck and is doing some better but has a long way to go. Keep her in your prayers.

Two friends of ours were killed in an accident last week near Edmonton. There was diesel fuel or oil on the road and then a hard rain. There were about six cars that wrecked, and they both were killed.

Our sympathy goes to the family. He was a Baptist minister, so he and his wife have gone to a better place. He was 70 years old, and she was in her 60s. They will be missed by all who knew them.

The Polly family (Rick, Linda and Christy) wants to wish Rick’s sister, Paula Matney in Gloucester, Va., a very happy birthday on July 21, and hope that she has many more.

Irene and Eugene Day will be married 61 years on July 22 or 23, and their son Francis’s birthday is on one of those days also. He will be 55 or 56. I hope all of them have a great day.

Deidra and Sammy Gibson will celebrate their second wedding anniversary July 22. Congratulations to them.

We went to Lexington last week and picked our granddaughter, Michaela up. She is going to spend a week with us. We are glad to see her, and she has gotten so tall to be 13, but that’s the way I was.

I went from being average at 12 to tall at 13, and then I stopped growing up – but it didn’t stop me from growing out after getting married and having kids.

I hope she has a lot of fun while she’s here. As soon as she arrived, Paige and Marty were waiting for her and took her for a ride on the 4-wheeler around the bottom, between our house and Irene’s. Then she and Emily McIntosh hung out until dark!

Thomas Wolfe was home for an overnight visit with his mom and dad, Kathy and Eddie Wolfe. He enjoyed himself.

Sorry to hear that one of Hager Trent’s brothers has died, Charles Trent from Bardstown. He was 73 years old and died July 13 at his home. He was the son of the late Robert and Virgie Tyler Trent. Surviving are a son, James Trent of Cox’s Creek; daughters, Tina Vuick of Taylorsville and Debbie Schaefer of Shepherdsville; four brothers, Bob Trent of Mayfield, Hager Trent of Cowan, Ken Trent of Whitco and Bennie Trent of Mayfield; five sisters, Patricia Posen of Chicago, Ill., Faye Garcia of Houston, Tex., Pauline Webb of Whitco, Linda of Cowan and Barbara Brown of Columbus, Ind.; three grandchildren, Eric Stewart, Michael Vuick and Nicholas Vuick; and two great-grandchildren, Jackson and Nelson Stewart.

The funeral was on Monday at Letcher Funeral Home, and he was buried at Trent Cemetery at Whitco. Our sympathy goes to the family.

I just got news from Greensburg, Ind., that a two-year-old boy got hold of his dad’s gun and accidentally killed himself. An 18-year-old friend of my granddaughter overdosed on her birthday and died. Also, another guy got shot and a city policeman was charged with sexual assault. Let’s keep all these families in our prayers.

This world is getting so wicked. So much is happening to our young and old. We need to keep everyone in our prayers. Our county is in such bad shape financially that unless we get hold of God and pray harder than we have ever prayed, there is not going to be a good old U.S.A. anymore. And if people on Social Security do not get what they have worked for all these years, this world will be in big trouble.

Well, enough of the doom and gloom. Let’s all have a good week. Until next time.



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