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From: WILLIAM GARRETT <>
Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Decoration Day
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
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we will be down the 21 of may.we go to the davidson,crockett,frogg,clarkrange
cemeteries.----phyllis



----- Original Message ----
From: gerrigoodwin tds.net <>
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Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 1:03:52 AM
Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Decoration Day

Which cemeteries are you going to and when is the decoration day?
Gerri

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM, WILLIAM GARRETT <>wrote:

> my sister and i go every year for decoration day and put flowers on there
> graves.been doing this sense 1964.will be there this year.--phyllis
>
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> Subject: [TNFENTRE] Decoration Day
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> Gerri
>
> I haven't heard those words in a long time..I remember Decoration Day from
> a kid at my Aunt Effie Delk Leffew's. My Granny Delk., Aunt Effie and Aunt
> Lexie Pile Delk Aunt Fae Delk York would make flowers for Decoration Day.
> Even us youngins would try to make them. They made the flowers out of crepe
> paper and then dip them in paraffin. They worked on them for weeks. When it
> came Decoration Day we would get all dressed up and the Aunts took food. I
> can't remember whose flat bed truck came to pick us up. We rode on the
> truck with nothing to hold us in except gravity. I think we even picked up
> the
> Hughes which were related through Granny Delk. Her sister was Nan Patton
> Hughes and her husband was Tyree Hughes....Now we just go to the store and
> buy the plants. It was much more fun back in the 40's and 50's...Thanks
> for
> jogging my memory..anyone else want to add to it..
>
> Milly WARD Piros
>
> My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff
> It's gone
>
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