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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,
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,
' Sherry Colbath - Hartranft,
' 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,
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,
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
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,
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 ?
iii. MARY E , born at Machiasport ME May 1823,
died at ?
iv. SON , born at Machiasport ME abt 1825, died
at ?
8 v. RICHARD
, born at Machiasport ME abt 1827
vi.
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 ?
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
James was a farmer at Machiasport ME.
Children
by Lucy Johnson
i. SARAH ELIZABETH , born at Machiasport ME abt
1845, died at Machiasport ME
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,
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
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
What is the Iraqi air force motto? I came, I saw,
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,
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:
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:
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,
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
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.
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
“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,
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,
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,
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
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
What sex are they? ZIPLOC
BAGS - male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through
them.
Death in
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
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
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
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
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
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
" AHSOWHAT JULY 2003
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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
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.
“NICEMAN” CARTOON