AHSOWHAT

 

Since  1995                                 The largest Cool/Col oriented newsletter in the world – God bless America                                 ISSN 1522 4341

VOLUME  8  ISSUE  11                           DICK  “NOBULL” COLBETH,  EDITOR & PUBLISHER                                                         July  2003

Editor: 360-892-6944   E-mail  CoolsCols- at -aol.com    www.colbeth.com/ahsowhat/index.htm    Circulation: 150 Cools/Cols   $10.00/yr or a box of Krispy Kremes   Editor’s a fisherman and lives in Vancouver, WA. with the best catch of his life, Sandy: Dick C’s Chick.


 


 


Hello, I wrote this poem in Memory of David Bloom

and wanted to share it with all of you. Best wishes, Martha

 

In Memory of David Bloom

 

If…

If I could turn the sands of time

Back to yesterday

I’d hold you close and kiss you

And this is what I’d say…

I came for such a little while

To briefly stay with you

My life was filled with things I loved

So much for me to do…

Thirty-nine years if much too short

To live upon this earth

But in the days that I was here

I know I proved my worth…

I lived each day as though the last

And I never missed the chance

To sing the songs that touched my heart

And I took the time to dance…

Fourteen thousand two hundred and thirty-nine days

Were all that I was given

But I’ve lived my life in my own way

And I did my share of living…

So, don’t be sad now that I’ve gone

For I’m in a better place

Deep in your heart you know again

You’ll look upon my face…

By Martha “Toots” Stevens-David, Minot, Maine

 



                        BIRTHDAYS                                                                                           ANNIVERSARIES

 

' Beverley Colbeth-Luce, Platina, California                           Carolyn & Dennis Colbeth -Johnson, Enumclaw, WA 19 yrs

' Eileen Colbeth - Holme, St. Paul, Minnesota                           Jack & Helaine Colbeth, Grosse Point, Michigan 44 years

' Ronald Coolbeth, Springfield, Massachusetts                                 Maggie & Roland Colbeth-Cross, Barre, VT. 18 years

' Eddie Colbeth,  California, somewhere, I think                                                      Lee & Paula Colbath, Darien, Connecticut

' Sherry Colbath - Hartranft, San Antonio, Texas

' Jim Colbeth, Holland, Pennsylvania, 43 – yeow!                              CONGRATULATIONS EVER’BODY!!!!!

' Terri Colbath-Leinneweber, New York, New York

' Sarah Colbeth, Edison, New Jersey    a teenager!

' Daniel Vazquez-Coolbeth, Springfield, Massachusetts     ' Dick “Ahsowhat” Colbeth, Vancouver, WA – 65!!!

 


 

Great pics you don't see everyday HTTP://TEAMHOUSE.TNI.NET/SCRAPBOOK/EPP/DONTSEE/DONT_SEE.HTM

Thanks to: Betty Colbath-Hamilton, Dexter, Maine

 

Poop Bingo: Next time you get your favorite front row/curbside seat at your local parade, draw a large chalk checkerboard – type deal on the street in front of your position while you’re waiting before the parade begins. You can then finance your trip by selling chances to your neighbors for which square gets the most horse droppings on it.

 

Martyr Trainee: Do you think those radical Muslims go from couch potato to strapping on a ton of dynamite? Seems to me like they’d start them off with a firecracker taped to their Mickey or something less extreme first and if they couldn’t handle getting Mr. Johnson scorched, they’d take up another, less stressful form of protest – maybe throwing eggs or something. Or get a job.

 

Want a Peacock? Wanna kill a Peacock?: If so, Portland, Oregon needs you. They have a surplus of the beautiful, nasty critters strutting their stuff in residential areas around the city and frustrated folks out here don’t know what to do with or about them. They crap like crazy, making even Poop Bingo unworkable. The males destroy cars pecking at their rival images in shiny paint and they start screaming around 3 am during mating season. They are practically uncatchable because they take straight up like a helicopter, fly about 100 yards and run like a deer. Some have been caught, but nobody, not the zoo, no-body wants them so there’s no way to get rid of the buggers. They fall between the protection cracks so killing them is legal…. Grab my slingshot and my steelies, Sandy, I’m a goin’ huntin’! Wonder if there’s a market for Peacock Burgers? Had Buffalo Saturday.

 

O     PERSONAL PROFILE     O

 

Marie Lorraine Colbath

 

Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, March 17th, 1946. Mothers name was Blanche Savage, biological father’s name was Calvin George Colbath, who was in the Navy and stationed in Rhode Island in 1945. I do not know anything about Calvin Colbath, where he was from, or his birth date. Maybe in his 80's if alive. I don't even know if he knew he had a daughter, since he left my mother before I was born. If anyone knows of him, please contact me at maries- at -fcgnetworks.net. Thanks, Marie

 

Hi Marie, Attached is a tif document of the death certificate of a Calvin Colbath that may be the one you are looking for. It is a 4.4 MByte file. If you have a Mac you won't have any trouble opening it. If you have a Windoze machine, good luck. Let me know if you need it in some other file format.

 

Here is the death notice from the Minneapolis Tribune, Wednesday, December 4, 1963:

 

COLBATH, Calvin, age 50, 5300 Idaho Avenue North. Survived by two sons, Calvin Jr. and Alan, brother Robert, three sisters, Mrs. Henry Markuson, Mrs. Thomas Erickson, and Mrs. James Norton. Rosary Wednesday 8pm, Graveside service, Thursday, 9am Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Visitation from noon Wednesday at the Knaeble Funeral Home, W Broadway at Upton Avenue North.

 

My wife, Jayne (Colbeth) and I were out to the Ft. Snelling National Cemetery to visit the grave of her uncle who was killed in WWII. While I was there I checked the grave of the Calvin whose death certificate I e-mailed to you. His middle name is George, and he was in the USNR; his rating was PTR3. I checked the Navy web site and that appears to be a painter. This should give you enough information to request records information from the national military archives in St Louis, MO. Hope this information helps you. John Hunkins, Jhunkins- at -mac.com

 

Outstanding work, John, my best honorary Cool/Col, outstanding. A few more unselfish, caring helpers like you and we could put the Ahsowhat on the map. It absolutely blows my mind because there are Cool/Col cousins out there with a ton of relative information on the relatives and they won’t share tweet. Personally, I don’t get it. What are they saving it for? Dick.

 

The Politician’s Hymn  ….…. Standing on the Promises …………….…..Ernest Coolbeth, Lyndonville, Vermont

 

The Peter Colbeth Family of Machiasport ME

 

3    JOHN COLBETH [# 18505] s/o PETER COLBETH and HANNAH 5 LIBBY was born at ? abt 1789; died at ? bet 1850-1860; married at Machias ME 28 Jan 1816 Sally Clark [MachMR], d/o William Clark and Sally Crocker;

 

John was a farmer at Machiasport ME.

      Children by Sally Clark

  i.   SON , born at Machiasport ME abt 1817, died at ? aft 1830

  ii.   CHARLES , born at Machiasport ME abt 1819, died at ? 29 Apr 1859 [Machias Union]

  iii.   MARY E , born at Machiasport ME May 1823, died at ? 7 Apr 1901 [gs, Bucks Harbor Cemetery, Harrington ME], married at ? Elisha Coffin Gray

  iv.   SON , born at Machiasport ME abt 1825, died at ?

8 v.   RICHARD , born at Machiasport ME abt 1827

  vi.   HENDERSON , born at Machiasport ME abt 1829, died at ? aft 1860

9 vii.   THOMAS JEFFERSON , born at Machiasport ME abt 1833

  viii.   DAU , born at Machiasport ME abt 1835, died at ? aft 1840

10 ix.   WILLIAM A , born at Machiasport ME abt 1839

 

4    GEORGE COLBETH [# 2022] s/o JOEL W COLBETH and SUSANNA 6 COLE was born at Machiasport ME 19 Sep 1805; died at ? 20 Aug 1884; married at ? [marriage int filed at Harrington ME 3 Nov 1827] Elizabeth Ann 7 Cole, d/o Reuben Cole and Hannah Beaman; George is buried at Bucks Harbor Cemetery, Machiasport ME

 

George was of Machiasport 1827. He remained there as a farmer and fisherman.

 

      Children by Elizabeth Ann Cole

  i.   CHRISSY JANE , born at Machiasport ME Apr 1829, died at Harrington ME 22 Mar 1910 [HarrDR], married at ? bef 1850 Lyman Cole

  ii.   HANNAH , born at Machiasport ME abt 1831, died at ? aft 1870, married at ? 12 Nov 1860 Henry True Gray

  iii.   GEORGE WASHINGTON , born at Machiasport ME abt 1835, died at ? aft 1860

11 iv.   BENJAMIN , born at Machiasport ME abt 1839

  v.   LUCY ANN , born at Machiasport ME abt 1843, died at ? 1 Feb 1922, married at ? 5 Mar 1862 Asa Beal Gray

  vi.   ALMEDA , born at Machiasport ME abt 1843, died at ? aft 1860

  vii.   NATHANIEL HUCKINS , born at Machiasport ME abt 1846, died at ? 28 Nov 1932

  viii.   MARY , born at Machiasport ME abt 1849, died at ? aft 1850

 

5    JAMES COLBETH [# 18529] s/o JOEL W COLBETH and SUSANNA 6 COLE was born at Machiasport ME 15 Mar 1814 [calc]; died at Machiasport ME 1 Dec 1901 [MaineDR]; married at ? bef 1845 Lucy Johnson d/o ? and ?; James is buried at Bucks Harbor Cemetery, Machiasport ME

 

James was a farmer at Machiasport ME.

 

      Children by Lucy Johnson

  i.   SARAH ELIZABETH , born at Machiasport ME abt 1845, died at Machiasport ME 25 Mar 1866 [Machias Union; gs, Bucks Harbor Cemetery, Machiasport ME says 20 Mar 1864]

  ii.   SAMUEL E , born at Machiasport ME abt 1849, died at ? aft 1860

  iii.   EDGAR , born at Machiasport ME Mar 1849, died at ? abt 1906 [gs, Bucks Harbor Cemetery, Machiasport ME]

  iv.   EMMA , born at Machiasport ME abt 1854, died at ? aft 1870

 

6    PETER COLBETH [# 18528] s/o JOEL W COLBETH and SUSANNA 6 COLE was born at Machiasport ME 3 Oct 1818; died at Machiasport ME 11 May 1893 [MaineDR]; married at ? bef 1870 Amanda Hepson(mn) d/o ? and ?;

 

Peter married 1st Roxanna Quimby and 2nd Amanda ---. Census records indicate that his parents were born in ME.

 

Peter was a seaman at Machiasport ME his entire life.

 

The Eastport Sentinel of 17 May 1893 says that Peter died at Buck's Harbor 4 May 1893 age 75y 4m 1d.

 

      Children by

  i.   JAMES , born at Machiasport ME abt 1844, died at ? aft 1860

  ii.   CHARLES W , born at Machiasport ME abt 1847, died at ? aft 1860

 

To be continued

 

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What is the Iraqi air force motto? I came, I saw, Iran.

 

An English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing," on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly. The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing." The women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing." Betty Colbath-Hamilton, Dexter, Maine

 

Have you heard about the Iraqi Air Force exercise program? Each morning you raise your hands above your head and leave them there.

 

Hi Dick! Things are going pretty good - very busy with work and learning about real estate lately - planning to start investing in rental property this year/summer so we've been busy taking some classes and meeting some new mentors.

     Profile was pretty good - thanks. I did rearrange a bit for online - especially since it wasn't in the MS Word document format. That format works really well, I can just about copy and paste it. I have to do a few corrections to get everything to line up ok... DavidColbeth- at -yahoo.com

 

What do Miss Muffet and Saddam Hussein have in common? They both have Kurds in their way.

 

Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) Death Certificate Index: search results for Colbeth, Colbath, and Coolbroth.. The index covers the years 1908 - 1996. Web site for the MHS is www.mhs.org

 

COLBATH, LEONIA HATTIE CertID# 1958-MN-023107 Date of Birth: 01/08/1888 Place of Birth: MINNESOTA Mother Maiden Name: (UNKNOWN) Date of Death:

05/25/1958 County of Death: HENNEPIN

COLBATH, MARY CertID# 1926-MN-000144 Date of Birth: not indexed Place of Birth: not indexed Mother Maiden Name: not indexed Date of Death: 03/02/1926 County of Death: ANOKA

COLBATH, RICHARD D. CertID# 1911-MN-019279 Date of Birth: not indexed Place of Birth: not indexed Mother Maiden Name: not indexed Date of Death: 11/16/1911 County of Death: HENNEPIN

COLBATH, ROBERT RAYMOND  CertID# 1995-MN-022196     Date of Birth: Place of Birth:  Mother Maiden Name:  04/20/1924  MINNESOTA  MOREAU Date of Death:  County of Death:  08/18/1995  HENNEPIN

COLBATH, SEONA   CertID# 1912-MN-014718     Date of Birth:  Place of Birth:  Mother Maiden Name:  not indexed  not indexed  not indexed Date of Death: 01/23/1912  County of Death: WRIGHT

COLBATH, VIOLET   CertID# 1919-MN-019358     Date of Birth:  not indexed  Place of Birth:  not indexed Mother Maiden Name: not indexed Date of Death: 04/22/1919  County of Death: HENNEPIN

COLBATH, WILDER   CertID# 1918-MN-017566 Date of Birth:  not indexed Place of Birth: not indexed  Mother Maiden Name: not indexed  Date of Death: 08/11/1918 County of Death: ST. LOUIS.

To be continued

Thanks once again to: John Hunkins, JCHSR- at -QWEST.NET

 

What is the best Iraqi job? Foreign Ambassador.

 

Did you hear that it is twice as easy to train Iraqi fighter pilots? You only have to teach them to take off.

 

Some things we keep...

 

A Father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones. It was the time for fixing things -- a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress.

 

Some things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.

All that re-fixing, reheating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant there'd always be more.

 

 But then my Mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any "more."

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So...while we have it...it's best we love it.....and care for it.....and fix it when it's broken.....and heal it when it's sick.

    This is true.....for marriage.....and old cars.....and children with bad report cards.....and dogs with bad hips.....and aging parents.....and grandparents.

    We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.

Some things we keep.

   

Like a best friend that moved away -- or -- a classmate we grew up with. Or even people that we've come to know and grown to enjoy that make us laugh...or they cry with us, listen to us and remind us how many blessings we have in both our joy and our pain.

    There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.....and so, we keep them close! Toots Colbath-David, Minot, Maine

 

What do Saddam Hussein and General Custer have in common? They both wanted to know where those Tomahawks were coming from!

 

Dear Dick, Just a note to send you this check – I don’t remember for sure when my subscription is due but here it is anyway. Finally we are looking a little bit like summer – it has been a long time coming. I had the pleasure of meeting (by mail) a relative that I did not know I had. She is Frances Coolbeth of Waterbury, Vt. She says her husband’s grandfather was my grandmother’s (Nina Colbeth) brother! I am still researching this. (I hope it’s true). Mother’s Day was wall-to-wall people and lots of gifts – it was just great! Hope all is well with you and your family. Sincerely, Ruth Coolbeth-Jones, Hillsboro, New Hampshire.

 

The expiration date is the little number at the end of your address. Yours was 11/03. I extended it to 11/04. Thank you, Ruth.

 

Why does the Iraqi navy have glass bottom boats? So they can see their Air Force.

 

 

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I TOLD YOU SO …..

Yangtze officials brace for shipping accidents

by Kelly Haggart

Officials are putting an emergency rescue plan in place to respond to shipping accidents they expect will occur on the Yangtze after the Three Gorges reservoir begins to fill on June 1, China News Service (Zhongguo xinwen she) reports.

All navigation in the Three Gorges section of the river will be halted on April 10 for 67 days. At the end of that period, on June 15, the reservoir will have been filled to 135 metres above sea level, the permanent five-step shiplock allowing boats to get through the dam will be put into operation, and shipping will resume.

Once the reservoir is filled, the backwater will reach as far as Fengdu county in Chongqing municipality, 430 km upstream of the dam. Officials are concerned that navigation between Fengdu and Yichang, the site of the dam in Hubei province, will be difficult – and dangerous – after June 1.

“Filling the reservoir will pose major problems and even significant threats to shipping on the river,” the news agency said in its March 24 report. “With the rising of the water, mountain slopes, cliffs, rocks and the mouths of Yangtze tributaries will be inundated. This could lead to new submerged reefs and dangerous shoals, and undercurrents in some sections of the river. Passenger boats, cruise ships and freighters will face the unprecedented threat of such undercurrents downstream of Fengdu.”

 

You Know You’re Getting Marvelously Mature When … You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and realize you’re not wearing any. Ruth Coolbeth-Jones, Hillsboro, New Hampshire

 

Dear Dick & all, We are getting some rain today. We had so much snow that many said we did not need rain – just to look out and see gardens some rain would help. Not much of a year for sugaring – Gordon helped in one place and they did real well with late runs. My folks have help days but are alone at night. Ed is still very independent to point out he can do it himself. He’s had a hard time adjusting to the fact that his walking is limited. No car to drive, Alleen there may wash a dish – no visiting, little response from her. It helps Gordon and Joan (Gram?) to have help, yet some things they can care for. All still like Bingo, few watch TV programs and sit to see persons come and go. A few go out for hair do’s or to the store. All places are busy doing their thing – Hope summer is good for all countriesand here. Best Wishes to all, love, Frances Coolbeth, Squire House, Waterbury, Vermont

 

Dear Dick & family, Just a line to let you know we survived the ice storm, wind and a couple of power outages. My, what horrible weather – too many things going around in the upper atmosphere, I think.

We are doing just fine in spite of our handicaps; we’re still on the go and enjoying our lives together.

Was sorry to lose Leroy – he visited us quite often and we miss that. He has a daughter Dione, living not too far from us and she and her family are a joy to behold.

Raining here again today – the grass is enjoying it and our flowering crab trees are simply gorgeous!

We were especially sorry to hear of Don Colbeth’s passing. He was so good to us a few years back when we visited sister Myrtle.

Sorry we didn’t donate to Felicia – but we figured Pat (Dick) Colbeth could give her the $20.00 she owes Bert for pictures she never sent him.

Must get this in the mail soon – Bert will take it out to the mailbox on the road. Sign us up for another year of your paper – and thanks for everything – Love, Isabelle Colbeth, Lake Orion, Michigan

 

A costly fiasco led briefly by former Spyglass Chief Executive Doug Colbeth….read about it at:

ChicagoTribune.com/business/columnists/chi-0111290287nov29.column.

 

Hoping to aid in the fight against mental illness, Doug & Margaret Colbeth of Naperville, Ill have donated $2 million for research…. Read about it at: www.dailyillini.com/

Archives/1997/November/13/p05_gift.txt.html.

 

Colbeth, Seth Death: Abt 1979 Gender: Male Family: Spouse: Emme, Leona Marie Parents: Father: Emme, Mother: Adcock, Leona Marie Children: Colbeth, Steven.

Teacher2b.com/evansl/dat31.htm.

 

Life has now been explained.

 

On the first day God created the cow.

God said, "You must go to field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years."

The cow said, "That's a kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty years and I'll give back the other forty." And God agreed.

On the second day, God created the dog.

God said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years."

The dog said, "That's too long to be barking. Give me ten years and I'll give back the other ten."

So God agreed (sigh).

On the third day God created the monkey.

God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks, make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty year life span."

Monkey said, "How boring, monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?"

And God agreed again.

On the fourth day God created man.

God said, "Eat, sleep, play, have sex, enjoy. Do nothing, just enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. I'll give you twenty years."

Man said, "What? Only twenty years? No way. Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, and the forty cow gave back, and the ten dog gave back and the ten monkey gave back. That makes eighty, okay?"

"Okay," said God. "You've got a deal."

So that is why for the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, have sex, enjoy, and do nothing; for the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family; for the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain our grandchildren; and for the last ten years we sit in front of the house and bark at everybody. Life has now been explained. William Kent Colbath

 

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What sex are they? ZIPLOC BAGS - male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.

 

Death in Ethiopia BreakPoint with Charles Colson 5/22/03

Nineteen years ago, a British television crew shot footage that shocked the world. The pictures of starving children, their bellies distended from hunger and their eyes lifeless from malnutrition, alerted the world to the tragic famine then unfolding in Ethiopia. The response was almost immediate. Musician Bob Geldof, previously known for a song about a schoolgirl who shoots her classmates, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his relief efforts. His "Live Aid" concerts were viewed by a huge worldwide audience. They raised millions of dollars to help eight million people in danger of starvation and signaled a determination that something like this would never happen again.

     But it has. Only this time, it’s not eight million, but twenty million people facing death from disease and starvation. For the past year, word has been coming out of East Africa about a looming humanitarian catastrophe. A severe drought destroyed much of the 2002 harvest. Hardest hit were subsistence farmers who not only lost their harvest, but also the seeds necessary to plant future crops. As a result, between eleven to twenty million people in Ethiopia and neighboring Kenya face starvation. In addition, millions more, weakened by hunger, are threatened by diseases like tuberculosis, measles, malaria, and meningitis. As Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the BBC, "If [the 1984 famine] was a nightmare, then this will be too ghastly to contemplate.”

      This prospect, and the world’s indifference to it, prompted Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia (R), a Wilberforce Award recipient, to write an op-ed piece for the Washington Post. In it, he writes that when he tried to get the media to cover the story, one television producer said that he wouldn’t be interested "until hundreds of children were dying on a daily basis."

     That’s shocking. Even more shocking, in its own way, is what happened when Wolf approached the United Nations. He asked UN Secretary General Kofi Annan "to appoint a special envoy for hunger to help elevate the crisis in Africa and to deal with other hunger issues around the world." Annan’s response, Wolf writes, was "less than enthusiastic.”                                

      Since we appear to be lacking star power this time around, the leadership role in averting this catastrophe falls squarely where it belongs: the Church. As my friend Frank Wolf rightly reminds us, this task isn’t optional. In Matthew 25, Jesus tells us that the line that divides sheep from goats is our response to the poor and the hungry—the least of Jesus’ brothers. If Christians won’t be moved to action by what Wolf and others have described, who will? Part of our response, in addition to giving to good Christian relief agencies, is making our concerns known to our leaders.                                                                                                     

     This is an issue that really is a matter of life and death. And we should treat it as such. We are blessed to live in the one nation that can make the difference. Let’s work to see that saving twenty million lives is a top priority. Wolf calls what’s happening a "silent emergency." It doesn’t have to be that way—not if the people of God, as Wolf says, tell the story of what’s happening "loudly and boldly."

 

SHOE - male, because it is usually unpolished, with its tongue hanging out. (Yeah, but we got soul).

Da Duke! Most of you know John Wayne as an actor. You may not know what happened to him before he died. This is that story……………………………………………………..
Robert Schuller's teenage daughter, Cindy, was in a motorcycle accident and had to have her leg amputated. John Wayne is a big fan of Robert Schuller.
He heard Dr. Schuller say on one of his programs that his daughter had been in an accident and had to have her leg amputated. John Wayne wrote a note to her saying:

Dear Cindy, Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you will be all right. Signed, John Wayne…………………………

The note was delivered to her and she decided she wanted to write John Wayne a note in reply. She wrote:

Dear Mr. Wayne, I got your note. Thanks for writing to me. I like you very much. I am going to be all right because Jesus is going to help me. Mr. Wayne, do you know Jesus? I sure hope you do, Mr. Wayne, because I cannot imagine Heaven being complete without John Wayne being there. I hope, if you don't know Jesus, that you will give your heart to Him right now. See you in Heaven. And she signed her name.

She had just put that letter in an envelope, sealed it, and written across the front of it "John Wayne" when a visitor came into her room to see her. He said, “What are you doing?”

She said: I just wrote a letter to John Wayne, but I don't know how to get it to him. He said: That's funny, I am going to have dinner with John Wayne tonight at the Newport Club down at Newport Beach. Give it to me and I will give it to him. She gave him the letter and he put it in his coat pocket.

There were twelve of them that night sitting around the table for dinner. They were laughing and cutting up and the guy happened to reach in his pocket and felt that letter and remembered. John Wayne was seated at the end of the table and the guy took the letter out and said: Hey, Duke, I was in Schuller's daughter's room today and she wrote you a letter and wanted me to give it to you. Here it is.

They passed it down to John Wayne and he opened it. They kept on laughing and cutting up and someone happened to look down at Wayne. He was crying.
One of them said: Hey, Duke, what is the matter? He said (and can't you hear him saying it), " I want to read you this letter." He read the letter. Then he began to weep. He folded it, put it in his pocket, and he pointed to the man who delivered it to him and said: "You go tell that little girl that right now, in this restaurant, right here, John Wayne gives his heart to Jesus Christ and I will see her in Heaven." Three weeks later John Wayne died.

 

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son and whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

 

 

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Adopt-a-Drunk: For a measly $31 a year, you can adopt a drinker. In return, you get a certificate, a signed photo of your adoptee, a beer mat and a newsletter giving updates on how your “child” is doing. WWW.PUBS2000.COM

 

Bat Swarm: Every evening April to October, a million and a half Mexican free-tailed bats, which nest in the expansion joints, fly out of the Congress Avenue Bridge, Austin, Texas for a supper-time bug run.

 

Flying: I quit flying. Personally, I don’t want to die with a bunch of tourists.

 

Job Prospects not so hot. No good references. I’ve left a path of destruction behind me.

 

Sell Your Idea to Hollywood: Hollywood Studios will pay up to $50,000 for your movie idea, life story, or experience. MOVIEIDEA.NET  1-888-727-3362. (Probably a catch to this one.)

 

Tattoo: I’m thinking about having the words, “Do Not Resuscitate” tattooed across the front of my chest. I’m not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of living when I should be dead.

 

Thanks for the reunion invites. I’d come but I’m too old for all that excitement right now. Maybe on down the road.

 

 

 

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