LonSharon: IT IS WHAT IT IS AND WAS WHAT IT WAS

Two score plus a decade and two years.....sounds like a long time. In some respects it is but it seems to have passed in a flash.

Sharon and I were married in the Baptist Curuch at Perry, Missouri on Friday evening September 04, 1964. I remember Rev C D Howell joking with me that the marriages he performed lasted.

We have just completed 52 years together. I started to write a blog about the history but it was turning into a book rather than a blog. Too much to bore my family and good friends with. Undoubtedly you are among this group so you have experienced some or much of it with us. So there you go, it was what it was.

Sharon told the neighbor's today that her being a saint helped it to last this long. I would agree that is absolutely true.

We would like to thank all of you, family, friends, and acquaintances for enriching our lives and helping us over the hurdles, that we might land where we are today.

Our greatest accomplishment has been our three sons, MARK (Becky, Kristen, Karissa, and Kolton), DAVID (Georgia, Quentin, Ethan, Noah, and Aiden), and KEVIN (Karen, Jordan, and Justin. We are so proud of each of them and their families.

One of our grandaughter's, Kristen Renee, will marry next month. As she and Wes begin their journey, we want to wish for them lots of love and support.

Kristen and Wes

The only wisdom I have is what I have said before, the one thing I have learned about life is, it goes on. So you take it as it comes, one day at a time and before you know it your kids have kids and they will soon have kids and you will have been married 52 years.