Family links, obituaries, photos and death certificates - Enhance And Give LIFE To My Research!
THANK YOU Find-A-Grave VOLUNTEERS!

Each time I create a Memorial - I take pride in knowing that it provides valuable information to a genealogist and comfort to a loved one. - EVERYONE'S STORY MATTERS!

QUIET - TREES AT WORK

June 28, 2023
Happy 320th Birthday REV. JOHN WESLEY (founder of Methodism)

I was born Ridgway, Elk Co., PA - raised Village of Rolfe (Johnsonburg), Ridgway Twp., Elk Co., PA - on the Clarion River, amidst the splendor of the Allegheny National Forest - graduated Johnsonburg High School in 1951 - resided over 26 years in the historic Village of Williamsville, Erie Co., NY - in September 1987 Cliff and I moved to Champagne Village/Lawrence Welk Village, Escondido, San Diego Co., CA to be "close-by" grandparents to our only grandchild, Clifton Jeffrey Dunn, who graduated May 16, 2010 from Boston University. In late September 2014 we moved back East (after considerable nagging on my part) - I MISSED THUNDER - LIGHTNING - CLOUDS - RAIN - SNOW! Cliff died October 11, 2021. We were married 63 years, 7 months and 26 days. He died of inanition as a consequence of Alzheimer's Type Dementia. His FIND A GRAVE memorial number is #232974038. Cliff's surfboard is hanging on our living room wall in Niagara Co., New York.

I am a METHODIST EPISCOPAL/UNITED METHODIST HISTORIAN/BIBLIOPHILE (BOOKWORM)/MEMORIALIST/FOREST PACIFIST/GENEALOGICAL SLEUTH - IN 1984 I was a Charter Member of Western New York Conference (now Upper New York) Conference - Methodist Federation For Social Action (MFSA). Highlights of my Professional Career: I am a retired SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST/SCHOOL LIBRARIAN - permanently certified in Pennsylvania and New York State - over 20 years experience setting-up and managing library media centers in elementary, middle and high schools within public and private school systems in Pennsylvania and New York - also have a NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC LIBRARIAN'S PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE as of April 22, 1983.

DO NOT write and ask questions without sending me "what you know" about that person! I want SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION (Be Breviloquent (in other words: SHORT AND CONCISE! Share And Share Alike!

Neil Gaiman said: "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers - A LIBRARIAN CAN BRING YOU BACK THE RIGHT ONE."

A Genealogist must have the patience of Job; the curiosity of a cat; the stubbornness of a mule; the eyesight of an eagle; be blessed with the luck of the Irish and have the ability and stamina of a camel to go long hours without food or drink."
--from The Herald, Vol. 18, No. 3 & 4; 1995

A Cremated individual will be reduced to mineral ash within minutes. If the ash is spread about in a woodland, that person will be truly incarnated. Elements in the ash will be taken up by bacteria, fungi, invertebrates, and plant roots. One individual can spread throughout a woodland and become many. How wonderful to be reincarnated as a bluebell, an oak tree and a lovely beetle all at the same time. It will certainly happen whether you like it or not.
from The Nature Of Life And Death: Every Body Leaves A Trace. c2019, Page 285
by Patricia Wiltshire (She is a forensic ecologist, botanist and palynologist)

He found a lonely little volume whose tale was seldom told - EVERYONE'S STORY MATTERS said Morris.
from The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore, c2012, Page 23, Line 5
by William Joyce

Loved ones who depart leave holes that cannot be patched up. At holiday celebrations, theirs is the laughter no one hears.
from Hell And Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir, c2020, Page 132, Line 26
by Madeleine Albright - (She was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th US Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001)

Let's take our hearts
For a walk in the Woods
and listen
to the magic whispers
of Old Trees...

I hear ethereal whispers
persuasive, soft and still,
Daughter, if you don't remember us,
who will?
--from an old Irish headstone

"Tis but the casket lies here,
the gem that filled it sparkles yet."

THOSE WHO DO NOT READ
ARE NO BETTER OFF
THAN THOSE WHO CANNOT READ.

Tribute To My Mother:
Bertha Mae (Miller) Haight
YOU MAY HAVE TANGIBLE WEALTH UNTOLD,
CASKETS OF JEWELS AND COFFERS
OF GOLD,
RICHER THAN I YOU CAN NEVER BE--
I HAD A MOTHER WHO READ TO ME.
--from the poem The Reading Mother
by Strickland Gillian

Happiness consists in small things, not in great. It is the small things we remember, when time and mortality close in, and by small landmarks we may make our way at last humbly into another world.
--from An Excellent Mystery - the eleventh chronicle of Brother Cadfael, c1985
by Ellis Peters

Handwritten cover page:
Journal Of The GENESEE CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - which met in session at Capt. Dorsey's, Lyons-Town, State of New-York, July the twentieth, one thousand, eight hundred and ten.--
At which,
Bishop Francis Asbury
and
Bishop William M'Kendree presided

200 YEARS OF AMERICAN METHODISM
IN THE
GENESEE/WESTERN NEW YORK/now UPPER NEW YORK CONFERENCE, July 20, 1810 - Tuesday, July 20, 2010

"What we keep in memory is ours, unchanged forever."

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
--from Ordinary Grace, c2013, Page 307
by William Kent Krueger

Let us get a firm grip of the very little which we do know, so that when fresh facts arise we may be ready to fit them into their places.
--from The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Genealogists Are Time UnRavelers!

"To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root."
--Chinese Proverb

"For this life do your best; and, so doing,
be mindful always that the other life is imminent."
--Rev. Bishop Isaac William Wiley
Methodist Episcopal Church

"The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life."
--Rev. Billy Graham, at age 78

Who is in charge of washing your family sheets?

Family links, obituaries, photos and death certificates - Enhance And Give LIFE To My Research!
THANK YOU Find-A-Grave VOLUNTEERS!

Each time I create a Memorial - I take pride in knowing that it provides valuable information to a genealogist and comfort to a loved one. - EVERYONE'S STORY MATTERS!

QUIET - TREES AT WORK

June 28, 2023
Happy 320th Birthday REV. JOHN WESLEY (founder of Methodism)

I was born Ridgway, Elk Co., PA - raised Village of Rolfe (Johnsonburg), Ridgway Twp., Elk Co., PA - on the Clarion River, amidst the splendor of the Allegheny National Forest - graduated Johnsonburg High School in 1951 - resided over 26 years in the historic Village of Williamsville, Erie Co., NY - in September 1987 Cliff and I moved to Champagne Village/Lawrence Welk Village, Escondido, San Diego Co., CA to be "close-by" grandparents to our only grandchild, Clifton Jeffrey Dunn, who graduated May 16, 2010 from Boston University. In late September 2014 we moved back East (after considerable nagging on my part) - I MISSED THUNDER - LIGHTNING - CLOUDS - RAIN - SNOW! Cliff died October 11, 2021. We were married 63 years, 7 months and 26 days. He died of inanition as a consequence of Alzheimer's Type Dementia. His FIND A GRAVE memorial number is #232974038. Cliff's surfboard is hanging on our living room wall in Niagara Co., New York.

I am a METHODIST EPISCOPAL/UNITED METHODIST HISTORIAN/BIBLIOPHILE (BOOKWORM)/MEMORIALIST/FOREST PACIFIST/GENEALOGICAL SLEUTH - IN 1984 I was a Charter Member of Western New York Conference (now Upper New York) Conference - Methodist Federation For Social Action (MFSA). Highlights of my Professional Career: I am a retired SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST/SCHOOL LIBRARIAN - permanently certified in Pennsylvania and New York State - over 20 years experience setting-up and managing library media centers in elementary, middle and high schools within public and private school systems in Pennsylvania and New York - also have a NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC LIBRARIAN'S PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE as of April 22, 1983.

DO NOT write and ask questions without sending me "what you know" about that person! I want SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION (Be Breviloquent (in other words: SHORT AND CONCISE! Share And Share Alike!

Neil Gaiman said: "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers - A LIBRARIAN CAN BRING YOU BACK THE RIGHT ONE."

A Genealogist must have the patience of Job; the curiosity of a cat; the stubbornness of a mule; the eyesight of an eagle; be blessed with the luck of the Irish and have the ability and stamina of a camel to go long hours without food or drink."
--from The Herald, Vol. 18, No. 3 & 4; 1995

A Cremated individual will be reduced to mineral ash within minutes. If the ash is spread about in a woodland, that person will be truly incarnated. Elements in the ash will be taken up by bacteria, fungi, invertebrates, and plant roots. One individual can spread throughout a woodland and become many. How wonderful to be reincarnated as a bluebell, an oak tree and a lovely beetle all at the same time. It will certainly happen whether you like it or not.
from The Nature Of Life And Death: Every Body Leaves A Trace. c2019, Page 285
by Patricia Wiltshire (She is a forensic ecologist, botanist and palynologist)

He found a lonely little volume whose tale was seldom told - EVERYONE'S STORY MATTERS said Morris.
from The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore, c2012, Page 23, Line 5
by William Joyce

Loved ones who depart leave holes that cannot be patched up. At holiday celebrations, theirs is the laughter no one hears.
from Hell And Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir, c2020, Page 132, Line 26
by Madeleine Albright - (She was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th US Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001)

Let's take our hearts
For a walk in the Woods
and listen
to the magic whispers
of Old Trees...

I hear ethereal whispers
persuasive, soft and still,
Daughter, if you don't remember us,
who will?
--from an old Irish headstone

"Tis but the casket lies here,
the gem that filled it sparkles yet."

THOSE WHO DO NOT READ
ARE NO BETTER OFF
THAN THOSE WHO CANNOT READ.

Tribute To My Mother:
Bertha Mae (Miller) Haight
YOU MAY HAVE TANGIBLE WEALTH UNTOLD,
CASKETS OF JEWELS AND COFFERS
OF GOLD,
RICHER THAN I YOU CAN NEVER BE--
I HAD A MOTHER WHO READ TO ME.
--from the poem The Reading Mother
by Strickland Gillian

Happiness consists in small things, not in great. It is the small things we remember, when time and mortality close in, and by small landmarks we may make our way at last humbly into another world.
--from An Excellent Mystery - the eleventh chronicle of Brother Cadfael, c1985
by Ellis Peters

Handwritten cover page:
Journal Of The GENESEE CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - which met in session at Capt. Dorsey's, Lyons-Town, State of New-York, July the twentieth, one thousand, eight hundred and ten.--
At which,
Bishop Francis Asbury
and
Bishop William M'Kendree presided

200 YEARS OF AMERICAN METHODISM
IN THE
GENESEE/WESTERN NEW YORK/now UPPER NEW YORK CONFERENCE, July 20, 1810 - Tuesday, July 20, 2010

"What we keep in memory is ours, unchanged forever."

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
--from Ordinary Grace, c2013, Page 307
by William Kent Krueger

Let us get a firm grip of the very little which we do know, so that when fresh facts arise we may be ready to fit them into their places.
--from The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Genealogists Are Time UnRavelers!

"To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root."
--Chinese Proverb

"For this life do your best; and, so doing,
be mindful always that the other life is imminent."
--Rev. Bishop Isaac William Wiley
Methodist Episcopal Church

"The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life."
--Rev. Billy Graham, at age 78

Who is in charge of washing your family sheets?