Thank you, Aunt Floydene, for compiling this history. It's a great treasure.
What an influence my grandmother, Ila Smith, has been on my life. I owe her so much. The only way I can repay all she did for me and all she taught me is to pass it on to my own children and grandchildren. She taught me how to move forward through the hardships of life and she taught me how to work.
It was especially fun to read her few comments about me when I was a baby. I could feel her love for me in those few words.
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Thank you, Aunt Floydene, for compiling this history. It's a great treasure.
What an influence my grandmother, Ila Smith, has been on my life. I owe her so much. The only way I can repay all she did for me and all she taught me is to pass it on to my own children and grandchildren. She taught me how to move forward through the hardships of life and she taught me how to work.
It was especially fun to read her few comments about me when I was a baby. I could feel her love for me in those few words.
At a very young age she paid me "a mans wage" to help her with her yard-work. What a simple message that was. What an amazing way to teach a child how to work hard. It taught me that I better darn well work like a man if she is payment me like a man, and I did. What a blessing that has been to me in my life. That is the way she taught. She would "trick" you in to learning what she wanted you to learn. She truly was the "baby whisperer".
Today is her Birthday. She passed away shortly before I left on my mission to New Zealand. I miss her. I love her. I wish my wife and my kids had known her. I wait, with great anticipation and hope, to see her again someday.