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>While Denny's week may not be typical....he is a >pillar of his church and a community leader in NC and >bodies are clamoring for his strong hand on the handle >of a casket....we are faced with the inevitable. Part >of my work for our >class is reading the the Syracuse obits every morning >of my life in order to both send our condolences from >the Class of '61 and to archive the losses of our >classmates and their loved ones. > >I have recently joined Ancestory.com I am in the >process of in-putting the >several hundred bodies who have walked this earth as >the result of the union >between my g'parents Charles Anson Dodge and Adelaide >Catherine McCabe. >I had put that piece of family history together last >summer for the reunion. We knew next to nothing about >my g'father....but with the advent of the computer and >the enormous possibilities that it gives families in >search of their roots...within a few minutes, I could >see sets of grandparents for ten >generations back....to 1607, in fact. I am not having >the same good fortune >with the Trinidad roots...a little third world vs. the >computer problem there... >So, while we have had just a couple of funerals in the >family of late, I am painfully and ethereally aware of >the passing of time as I gaze on generation upon >generation who have come and gone from this earth. > >And, so it will be for each of us. Let us make the >best of our re-connections >and stay close during these last few years of life. >Use this forum...use your >email...use your phone....hug each other >metaphorically. Stay in touch. This >forum is the tool to do it but if we don't keep it >active and alive, classmates >will tire of returning to the same old, same old. >Amen!

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